By Tom Jarvis Nearly 450 members attended the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Midyear Meeting on Friday, February 9, at the DoubleTree Hilton hotel in Manchester to partake in an enormous event chock-full of continuing legal educational sessions,
By Tom Jarvis and Scott Merrill People reentering the community after leaving the New Hampshire state prison system face overlapping challenges that many on the outside might fail to notice. These challenges range from basic needs –
By Grace Yurish January 4 marked the halfway point of modules for the NHBA 2023-2024 Leadership Academy program. Designed as a nine-month curriculum, the Leadership Academy aims to cultivate leadership skills and foster the professional growth of
By Tom Jarvis and Grace Yurish In the spring of 2022, New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice (NHSC) Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi began to organize what is now the New Hampshire Coalition for Resettlement of Afghan Women
By Scott Merrill A person in New Hampshire who violates the conditions of their parole is very often referred to by the New Hampshire Department of Corrections (DOC) as a “Community Failure.” For those seeking prison reform,
By Tom Jarvis Note: When George announced that he would be stepping down, my immediate thought was to write an article to honor him and to illustrate what a notable leader he has been – not only
By Tom Jarvis The NHBA Member Center, located within the Bar Center at 2 Pillsbury Street in Concord, will open in January as a free service to all members, active or inactive. The space is meant to
By George R. Moore I recently informed the officers and the Board of Governors of the New Hampshire Bar Association that I will be stepping down in a couple months as the executive director. It seems like
By Scott Merrill The New Hampshire Department of Correction’s (DOC) mission statement says its purpose is to rehabilitate and supervise prisoners and to ensure public safety. Yet, according to a DOC study examining cohorts of prisoners who
By Grace Yurish New Hampshire history was made when Talesha L. Saint-Marc became the first Black person in New Hampshire to serve on the federal bench as a United States magistrate judge. On October 12, her consequential