By Christopher Candon In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent economic instability, companies are being forced to assess their financial health and stability. While most will weather the storm, many companies may find the past few years...
By Luke Webster and Ryan C. Ollis Recent events in Ukraine have generated renewed focus on the Law of War. Through the fog of battle, Nuremberg Prosecutor Telford Taylor’s admonition still holds true: those who take up arms do not cease to...
By Tom Jarvis On March 21, 2022, the New Hampshire Circuit Court implemented a new centralized process for involuntary emergency admissions (IEA) to mental health facilities. According to the NH Judicial Branch, the process is a key step in the...
By Kathie Ragsdale When Susanne Gilliam started law school – at age 55 – she had no idea the move would lead her to a detention center in El Paso, Texas, or a street plaza ringed with armed security forces in Tijuana, Mexico. But Gilliam, an...
By Tom Jarvis HB 1343, known as the Paraprofessional Pilot Program, was signed into law by Governor Chris Sununu on June 17, 2022. It allows paralegals to provide limited legal services to underserved Granite Staters in circuit courts. The...
New Hampshire’s Five Longest-Practicing Attorneys Share Insightful Anecdotes From the 1950s Until Today By Scott Merrill Three hundred and twenty-seven years—that’s the combined amount of time New Hampshire’s five longest practicing attorneys...
Governor Sununu has just signed into law the creation of a $100,000,000 fund to be used to compensate hundreds of victims of physical and sexual assault at the Youth Development Center in Manchester. Ten former YDC employees have been charged...
Clerkships Offer Unparalleled Perspective on the Judicial System By Tom Jarvis Sometimes we know what we want, but we don’t know how we want it. Law school students or recent law school graduates may know they want to be lawyers, but not...
Attorney Amanda Nelson Serves Artists’ Legal Needs By Kathie Ragsdale Most law firms are named after their founders or principal attorneys, but Amanda L. Nelson chose a Latin phrase for her Dover, New Hampshire practice: Artium Amore. It means...
By William P. O’Sullivan What do Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, Paula Abdul, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, James Cameron, Heady Lamar, Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Eddie Van Halen have in common? Obviously...
Legal Scholars and Policy Makers Concerned Decision May Call Other Civil Rights Into Question By Monica Ciolfi Editors note: As the Bar News was heading to press, a leak from the US Supreme Court disclosed a draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson...
By Tom Jarvis On April 22, 2022, Milford High School represented New Hampshire in the We the People National Finals in Washington, DC, via Zoom, where they placed 22nd out of 47 participating schools. They became State Champions during the State...
