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Stephani Roundy Knights: “Superhuman” Law Clerk by Day, Zumba Instructor by Night, Mom Always

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By Tom Jarvis For New Hampshire Superior Court Law Clerk Supervisor Stephani Roundy Knights, limitations are laughable, and marked multitasking is a matter of course. Alliterations aside, Roundy Knights has generally never let obstacles stand in the way of her goals, and even if she doesn’t achieve those goals the way she originally intended, she … Read more

Recent New Hampshire Supreme Court Order May Assist With Defense Attorney Shortage for Indigent Criminal Defendants

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By Tom Jarvis On August 10, 2022, the New Hampshire Supreme Court issued an order designed to help alleviate the backlog of indigent criminal defense cases in the Granite State. The order waives mandatory continuing legal education requirements and the filing of a Trust Account Compliance form for Inactive Status attorneys who elect Limited Active … Read more

What’s New in Environmental Law

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By Amy Manzelli This March, 18 environmental attorneys, consultants, engineers, and a reporter convened to provide an update on the latest in environmental law. The following are excerpts from each of their presentations. For many more details, and to earn CLE credits, please log on to https://nhbar.inreachce.com. State of the State’s Waters Theodore E. Diers, … Read more

Suicide and the Chain of Causation: How a Claimant’s Suicide May be Held Compensable Under Pelmac

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By Jared O’Connor One of the (thankfully) lesser-seen aspects of work­ers’ compensation law is the provision of benefits in RSA 281-A:26 for depen­dents of an injured worker who dies from a work-related injury. When there is an obvious and uncontested connection between the em­ployment risk and the resulting death (e.g., a construction worker is killed … Read more

Workers’ Compensation Practice Can Be More Like “Good Will Hunting” Than “A Few Good Men”

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By Dana Smith In law school, they don’t tell you how much time you’ll spend do¬ing math. We’ve all been there at some point; a client asks what certain figures mean, and we’re struggling to recol¬lect the exact formu¬la our high school math teacher scribbled on the dusty chalk¬board decades ago. With a workers’ com¬pensation … Read more

Joseph Caulfield – Martial Artist and Magician

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By Kathie Ragsdale When Lyndeborough attorney Joseph Caulfield takes on a case, he approaches it with the skills of a martial artist, and with a sprinkling of magic. “The martial arts inform all my life,” says the legal practitioner of 40-plus years, who is also a highly ranked martial arts in­structor and magician/mystery entertainer. “It … Read more