By Grace Yurish The New Hampshire Bar Association (NHBA) is enhancing its license renewal process by adopting Lean, a process improvement methodology focused on providing increased value for customers by reducing inefficiencies and optimizing operations. This initiative
By Tom Jarvis It has been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world. While the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, it wasn’t until April that
By Tom Jarvis Much has been said about the public defender and conflict counsel shortage, but another piece of the puzzle is the prosecution. At first glance, you might not think the indigent defense crisis has direct
By Tom Jarvis With just under 500 attendees, the New Hampshire Bar Association’s 2025 Midyear Meeting (MYM), held on Friday, February 21, at the DoubleTree Hilton in Manchester, marked the highest turnout since in-person gatherings resumed after
By Tom Jarvis Previous articles in this series have explored the challenges encountered by the New Hampshire Public Defender (NHPD), but what happens when a public defender faces a conflict of interest – whether a direct conflict,
By Grace Yurish Lawyers and judges across New Hampshire are invited to participate in the inaugural Civics Bootcamp training session at the Federal Courthouse on April 7. This program is designed to equip legal professionals with engaging
This article is a continuation of the first article in the series examining the indigent defense crisis in the Granite State. By Tom Jarvis The first installment of the NHBA Indigent Defense Crisis Series examined the ongoing
By Tom Jarvis House Bill 253, a proposed measure in the New Hampshire Legislature, has sparked considerable discussion among legal professionals and policymakers. The bill aims to redirect funding generated through the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts
By Tom Jarvis The New Hampshire Judicial Branch’s (NHJB) Family Treatment Court (FTC) in Sullivan County, launched in 2021, is the first of its kind in New Hampshire. It provides early intervention for families involved in abuse
This article is the first in a series examining the indigent defense crisis in the Granite State. By Tom Jarvis New Hampshire’s criminal courts are amid a crisis due to a critical shortage of public defenders, contract