The NHBA Ethics Committee produces two types of work product. Opinions of the Committee (below) analyze and apply the Rules to specific situational inquiries submitted to the Committee. Ethics Corner / Practical Ethics articles analyze and apply...
By Jonathan Van Fleet The Concord Monitor The legal exemption cited by the Concord School Board to withhold a 100-page report examining how staff responded to accusations of inappropriate conduct by former teacher Howie Leung has been overturned...
“Tooling Up” for a “Tsunami” of Cases By Scott Merrill While the pandemic fuels Great Depression levels of unemployment and protestors take to the streets calling for justice after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day...
By Kathie Ragsdale Thomas Pancoast may be the quintessential North Country lawyer – part legal advisor, part raconteur, and so can-do that he delivered one of his own daughters in the back seat of a 1971 Plymouth Fury. He has maintained an...
By Natalie Laflamme There are issues in life where progress ebbs and flows. As many of you know, each decade the NHBA Gender Equality Committee surveys our profession’s progress toward overcoming gender disparity. If you are feeling like...
By George Moore Executive Director The much-maligned World Health Organization has defined “Healthy” as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.” Well, by that definition, I am profoundly unhealthy. I miss the social part. I...
Reopening Your Law Firm Reopen Your Practice a nimble plan developed by the Indiana State Bar Association. It cover 6 Readiness Essentials and multiple considerations or steps to follow for each of them. Prepare the Workplace Prepare Your...
When the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic struck in early March, court proceedings were seriously upended. Following social distance guidelines, in-person courthouse access was limited to emergency filings and hearings only. Case processing slowed...
By Scott Merrill and Kathie Ragsdale With courts closed, except for emergency orders and social distancing keeping clients from their doors, New Hampshire attorneys from north to south with solo or small practices are getting creative to cope...
By Scott Merrill On April 2nd students of the 2020 graduating class of UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law wrote a letter to the New Hampshire Board of Bar Examiners requesting an emergency diploma privileged bar admission. The students are part of...
By Scott Merrill Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees have been granted temporary release by government officials from the Strafford County Department of Corrections jail in Dover, NH. The release of Darwin Aliesky...
The various circuit courts of New Hampshire hear 90 percent of the state’s cases. The answering machine for the New Hampshire Circuit Court in Concord currently reminds people that in-person cases are expected to resume on May 5th, one day...
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