NHWBA May 2010 Update

This year, NHWBA will hold its 2010-12 Board of Directors election online. The election will run from May 3, 2010 starting at noon through May 17, 2010 at 11:59 pm. You should have already received an email from the online election website, www.electionbuddy.com, which provided a link and instructions to complete the voting.

The voting process is quick to complete and will only require a few minutes of your time. Your participation is important to the NHWBA.

The candidates for the NHWBA Board are:

President - Holly B. Haines
Vice President - Holly J. Kilibarda
Secretary - Erin J.M. Alarcon
Treasurer - Karyl Roberts Martin
Public Relations Officer - Erin G. Stearns
Programming Director - Charla Bizios Stevens
Membership Secretary - Melissa S. Penson
Member at Large - Keriann Roman
Hillsborough County North - Nicole M. Morse
Hillsborough County South - Catherine E. Shanelaris
Merrimack County - Joceline D. Champagne
Rockingham County - Catherine P. McKay
Sullivan County - Jane F. Taylor
Cheshire County - Sheila J. Burnham
Out of State Liaison - Erin Desmarais Wolf

If you have any questions or did not receive the election email, please contact Erin Stearns at (603) 628-1325 or erin.stearns@mclane.com.

Its not too Late . . .
Support NHWBA's Food Drive!

The NHWBA's food drive aimed at feeding hungry children runs through May 14th. We are collecting canned fruit, pasta items (boxed, canned or bagged) and monetary donations for the New Hampshire Food Bank. When making a monetary donation, checks should be made payable to "NH Food Bank." Please send checks to the NHWBA at P.O. Box 915, Manchester, NH 03105.

Food donations made within individual firms and offices will be collected by NHWBA representatives from May 14th to May 19th and will be delivered to the NH Food Bank.

We have many participating firms, including:

Abramson, Brown & Dugan
Ansell & Anderson, PA
Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson, PLLC
Curtin Law Office, PLLC
Devine Millimet
Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC
Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC
Harvey & Mahoney
Hoefle, Phoenix, Gormley & Roberts, PA
New Hampshire Bar Center
Manning & Smith PLLC
McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton
Shanelaris & Schirch
Sheehan, Phinney, Bass + Green

To notify the NHWBA that your office has collected food for the project and arrange for pick up, contact Katherine Brown at k.b.moto@live.com or Cathy Shanelaris at cathy@sandslawfirm.com.

Thank you to all who donate to the NHWBA food drive!

NHWBA Night Out at the Fisher Cats!

When:    Wednesday, May 19th
Where:   Devine Millimet suite
              Merchantauto.com Stadium

Join fellow members of the NHWBA for a FREE night of baseball, networking and fun!

The opening pitch is at 7:05 p.m. and participation is limited to 17.

E-Discovery CLE
**Rescheduled**

When: June 3, 2010

Where: Devine, Millimet & Branch

111 Amherst Street
Manchester, NH

Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

(Registration opens at 12:45 p.m.)

Cost: $50 for members in advance;

$60 for non-members & at the door

Topics covered include:

E-discovery 101: A Primer for New Hampshire Attorneys
Computer Forensics: What's Really In There?
Google, Facebook, Blogger, et al: Research in the Internet Age

Faculty:

Shelagh Michaud, Esq.
Judith A. Gosselin, J.A.G. & Company, LLC Investigation
Stacy Furlotte, Paralegal, Cullen, Collimore

Tables for Eight Mentoring Program

Featuring Our Mentor for the Evening: Carol Hess, Esq.

On June 3rd, come have dinner with one of the premier alternative dispute resolution practitioners in New Hampshire, Carol Hess!

Carol Hess has been a trial lawyer for more than 20 years and has represented clients in all state and federal courts in New Hampshire and before the Human Rights Commission. Carol is a mediator and arbitrator for alternative dispute resolution in the Superior Courts and the Human Rights Commission, and provides dispute resolution services both privately and for the courts. For more than ten years, Carol has brought her extensive litigation experience and her strong problem solving skills together to help individuals and organizations resolve disputes without the expense, risk and delay of trial.

In addition to her mediation and arbitration practice, Carol has worked with non profit organizations to facilitate retreats, help resolve conflict, develop healthy board practices and lead high conflict discussion sessions. Carol is a frequent lecturer in the area of litigation, expert witnesses, and mediation practices.

Dinner is dutch treat and registration is limited to 7 attorneys in practice for 10 years or less. Dinner starts at 6 p.m.

Family Friendly is Better Business
Business Networking Breakfast, hosted by NH Children's Trust Fund

When:   May 21, 2010
Where: Sheehan, Phinney, Bass + Green, PA
            1000 Elm Street, Manchester, NH
Time:    7:30am - 9 am
Cost:    $25 (includes breakfast)

When it comes to employee satisfaction & productivity, studies show that family friendly is better business.

Learn how to cut absenteeism, tardiness & turnover, increase morale, productivity & retention
Today's economy puts more parents in the workforce than ever before.
Supporting families is investing in prevention, and that pays dividends for generations to come.

Welcome: Joseph A. DiBrigida, Jr., President & Managing Director, Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA

Keynote: Jim Hmurovich, CEO, Prevent Child Abuse America

Panel Discussion:
Bill Whyte, Founder, W.S. Badger Company, Inc.
Noreen Kasper, Director Human Resources, The Timberland Company Malcolm Smith, PhD, UNH Dept. of Family Studies
Rep. Mary Stuart Gile, Chair, Task Force on Work & Family

To register, contact:

NH Children's Trust Fund
10 Ferry Street, Suite 315
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 224-1279 phone
(603) 223-9847 fax
info@nhctf.org

Internship Sought

Elizabeth DeMeo,a sophomore at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, is seeking an internship at a law firm in New Hampshire this summer.

She is currently majoring in International Studies and planning on graduating early in the spring of next year after completing a fellowship in Washington, DC in the fall. After graduation, she hopes to attend law school in the fall of 2011.

If you have or know of an opportunity for Elizabeth, she can be contacted at edemeo1@jhu.edu.

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