By Tom Jarvis The New Hampshire Bar Association welcomed bar leaders from across the region to Portsmouth this fall as host of the 2025 New England Bar Association (NEBA) Annual Meeting. The gathering took place November 7–8
By Scott Merrill People in the Granite State can debate whether the cost of living is increasing too much, but there’s no question that it’s rising – and wages aren’t keeping up. This is a driving factor
By Tom Jarvis Marcia “Marty” Sink, founder, president, and CEO of Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire (CASA), has announced that she will retire as of July 1, 2026, after nearly four decades leading the
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ABSTRACT When a lawyer knows that a non-client witness has testified falsely, the lawyer had a duty to take reasonable remedial measures notwithstanding the duty of confidentiality. If the lawyer learns of the falsity after the conclusion
Question: I represent a plaintiff in a case where we successfully mediated a very contentious employment discrimination case. At least I thought we had successfully mediated the case. Now, my client refuses to agree to some of
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