2025

By Tom Jarvis More than 150 attorneys, judges, and community leaders gathered at the Manchester Country Club on October 9 for the New Hampshire Bar Foundation’s (NHBF) 2025 Annual Dinner. The evening highlighted the Foundation’s ongoing commitment

By Tom Jarvis Bryan K. Gould, a longtime Concord litigator and shareholder at Cleveland, Waters & Bass, PA, was sworn in on September 18 as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, becoming the 112th

By Megan Koerber After more than a decade of dedicated service, Jack Crisp is stepping down as chair of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Committee. A past president of the NHBA (1994–1995), Crisp’s

By Scott Merrill In an extraordinary move, the US Department of Justice (DOJ), under President Donald Trump, sued all 15 District of Maryland judges this summer over a procedural order in immigration cases. Though quickly dismissed, the

By Tom Jarvis At the 2025 Annual Meeting, the New Hampshire Bar Association announced the formation of a Special Committee on Public Sector and Public Interest Attorneys – an ad hoc group charged with assessing needs, exploring

By Tom Jarvis In 2025, the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law’s (UNH Law) Daniel Webster Scholars (DWS) Honors Program marks 20 years since its approval by the New Hampshire Supreme Court (NHSC). The

By Tom Jarvis New Hampshire Supreme Court (NHSC) Senior Associate Justice James P. Bassett retired from the bench on August 31 after 13 years of service. He participated fully through his retirement date, though he last sat