By Tom Jarvis More than 100 lawyers, judges, and their family members attended the New Hampshire Bar Association’s first annual 50-Year Member Luncheon on Thursday, June 1, at the Bedford Village Inn in Bedford. Of the 73
By Tom Jarvis For Exeter attorney Terrie Harman, appearing before the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for the first time on April 24, 2023, was exhilarating. It’s a great privilege and a rare opportunity to appear before SCOTUS,
By Scott Merrill When the Bar Association of New Hampshire – as it was then called – was established in 1873 as a philanthropic club of “like minded attorneys,” it consisted of all men. It wasn’t until
By Tom Jarvis Pamela Dodge, a name that has been synonymous with the DOVE Project for more than two decades, has announced her upcoming retirement on June 30, 2023. Dodge has been the DOVE (Domestic Violence Emergency)
By Tom Jarvis In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been swiftly permeating the legal world. Legal research tools like Westlaw and LexisNexis have used a type of AI called Natural Language Processing (NLP) for more than
By Tom Jarvis Jack the facility dog sitting on Judge Erin McIntyre’s bench at Hillsborough Circuit Court. Photo by Tom Jarvis De-escalating heightened emotions and providing comfort in the courtroom rests on the capable and furry shoulders
By Misty Griffith The evolution of language-based, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is as rapid as the generation of text on the screen by ChatGPT, possibly the most well-known AI of this kind. My Bar News colleagues, Tom
By Tom Jarvis More than 400 lawyers and judges attended the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Midyear Meeting (MYM) on Friday, February 17, at the DoubleTree Hilton hotel in Manchester to partake in an enormous event chock-full of
By Kathie Ragsdale David Wolowitz’s determination to give voice to those who cannot speak for themselves has taken him from the wards of Concord Hospital to the slums of Liberia, Africa. A practitioner for more than 45
By Roni Karnis New Hampshire workers now have access to a new, unique employment benefit known as Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) insurance. PFML insurance provides wage replacement benefits for family and medical leave. The Granite