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Welcome New and Returning Members
MaryDilys Anderson
Finch & Maloney PLLC
Jessica Ecker
Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC
Alexandria Forgione
UNH School of Law
Rachel Hawkinson
Rath, Young & Pignatelli, P.C.
Erin Meenan
Waystack Frizzell
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NHWBA Officers and Directors
Executive Director:
Gretchen E. Pyles
NHWBA
Gretchen@nhwba.org
President:
Holly J. Kilibarda
Nixon Peabody, LLP
Immediate Past President:
Holly B. Haines
Abramson, Brown & Dugan, PA
Vice President:
Karyl Roberts Martin
Sheehan, Phinney, Bass + Green, PA
Secretary:
Sabrina C. Beavens
Iurillo & Associates, PA
Treasurer:
Sheila J. Burnham
Granite Financial Partners
Public Relations Officer:
Christina A. Ferrari
Bianco Professional Association
Networking Director:
Erin Desmarais Wolf
Conn Kavanaugh
Programming Director:
Kathleen M. Mahan
Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson, PLLC
Membership Secretary:
Kara M. Simard
Borofsky, Amodeo-Vickery & Bandazian, PA
Vice Membership Secretary:
Clara Dietel
Shaheen & Gordon, PA
Member at Large:
Heather A. Flanner
Concord Prosecutor's Office
Belknap:
Lynne Sabean
Boutin & Altieri, PLLC
Coos:
Sandra Cabrera
Waystack Frizzell
Grafton:
Viktoriya Kovalenko
NH Superior Court
Hillsborough North:
Heidi A. Ames
Devine, Millimet & Branch, PA
Hillsborough South:
Talesha Caynon
Bernstein Shur
Merrimack:
Marcia Thunberg
NH Public Utilities Commission
Rockingham:
Catherine P. McKay
Parnell & McKay, PLLC
Strafford:
Jeanine Kilgallen
Shaheen & Gordon, PA
Out of State Liaison:
Hannah Zaitlin
McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, PA
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News and Events:
September 2012
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Greetings!
How time flies when we're having fun! During the last few days, Fall has already been in the air in New England. The crispness of the air and those first changes in the color of the leaves makes me excited for our 15th Annual Fall Reception. I hope that we will see you at the Concord Country Club on Thursday, September 27th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. It will be my great pleasure to present Connie Rakowsky, Executive Director of the Legal Advice and Referral Center, with the Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award. Connie joins an illustrious group of past winners, several of whom were on hand for the NH Campaign for Legal Services fundraising event on August 28th. You may have seen a picture of these past Ricker Award recipients, including the Honorable Susan B. Carbon, Martha Van Oot, Mary Susan Leahy, Linda S. Johnson, Emily G. Rice, Ann McLane Kuster, Barbara Keshen, the Honorable Carol Ann Conboy, Ellen J. Musinsky, the Honorable Deborah Kane Rein, and Lucy C. Hodder in the most recent edition of the Bar News. We are grateful to this outstanding group of professionals for their support of the Campaign's important mission.
I would be remiss if I did not thank our Board Secretary, Sabrina Beavens, for her tireless work planning this year's Reception. Our talented Executive Director, Gretchen Pyles, has also worked hard to make this year's Reception every bit as fun as last year's. Please join me in thanking Sabrina, Gretchen, the Board, and the Networking Committee for their hard work in making this Reception a success.
Before we know it, October will be upon us. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the NHWBA is proud to once again offer a full-day Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy Workshop (approved by the ABA) on October 19, 2012. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives. Breast cancer patients face a variety of legal problems related to their illness. Our program will provide valuable information to practitioners representing patients with breast cancer and other serious illnesses, as well as to those representing patients' family members and survivors. I encourage you to visit our website at www.nhwba.org to learn more about the program and register today!
Best regards,
Holly J. Kilibarda, President
New Hampshire Women's Bar Association
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Help us Celebrate NHWBA's 15th Anniversary Can you believe it? The NHWBA will celebrate its 15th Anniversary in May, 2013! Plans are underway for an event celebrating this milestone and we'd love to have your help. If you would like to join the event committee, please contact our Executive Director, Gretchen Pyles at Gretchen@nhwba.org. |
Spotlight on our Member, Katherine L. Brown  Our spotlight this month is on Katherine L. Brown. Katherine works in the corporate legal services division of Liberty Mutual Group in Dover, New Hampshire. She is a past president of the NHWBA (2006 - 2008) and is the current Vice President - Membership for the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations (NCWBA).
Katherine has been very involved in the NCWBA and has served on its board since 2008. She most recently served as the organization's treasurer. When asked about Katherine, Diane Rynerson, the Executive Director of the NCWBA, had the following to say, "Katherine has been a wonderful addition to the NCWBA board. Her contributions to any group discussion are always calm and collaborative. She asks all the right questions. I love working with her because she is clear about what she needs from me and always follows through with anything she promises to do." Katherine brought the NCWBA's "Food from the Bar" program to New Hampshire, and she and Cathy Shanelaris have co-chaired the NHWBA's annual food drive since it started four years ago. In fact, thanks to Katherine and Cathy's hard work, the NHWBA was featured in the NCWBA's September Newsletter because of its continued participation in the "Food from the Bar" program. Katherine is an advocate of women's rights and equality for all. She currently serves on the New Hampshire Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and on the Gender Equality Committee of the New Hampshire Bar Association. She was involved in the creation of a report concerning the treatment of female inmates in New Hampshire prisons. The New Hampshire Advisory Committee issued a report entitled, "Unequal Treatment: Women Incarcerated in New Hampshire's State Prison System." Katherine also co-authored an article featured in the 2010 Summer edition of the New Hampshire Bar Journal, which focused on the Gender Equality Survey - 20 Year Follow Up. She wrote an article with Kristin Mendoza entitled "Ending the Tyranny of the Billable Hour: A Mandate for Change for the 21st Century Law Firm." Kristin had high praise for Katherine and commented, "I greatly admire Katherine for her passion and commitment to the new bar and committee work she has engaged in over the years. She shows great intelligence and genuineness in demeanor when interacting with others and I've enjoyed every project I've ever been involved in and every conversation I've ever had with her." In addition to her work on these various boards and committees, Katherine also found time to speak at last year's 21st Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at the University of New Hampshire entitled "Combating Hate: Hope to Action." She is one of those people that everyone respects and wants in their organization. Holly Haines, the Immediate Past President of the NHWBA, explained that "Katherine is an exceptional advocate and leader in our profession and it has been my privilege to serve with her on the board of the NHWBA for so many years. Katherine is not only dedicated to advancing the interests of women in the profession, both locally and nationally, but she is dedicated to achieving equality for all genders and races and advancing the interests of all who are underserved in our society, as demonstrated through her outreach with the Food from the Bar campaign. She has been a mentor to me on the NHWBA board, as she has for many others. Her ongoing commitment to our organization and the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations is without compare." |
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Next Thursday: 15th Annual Fall Reception
When: Thursday, September 27, 2012 
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Concord Country Club
22 Country Club Lane
Concord, NH
Please join us at our 15th Annual Fall Reception at the Concord Country Club. At the reception, we will present the 2012 Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award to Connie L. Rakowsky, Executive Director of the Legal Advice and Referral Center. The Ricker Award is presented annually to a woman lawyer who has achieved professional excellence, paved the way to success for other women lawyers, advanced opportunities for women in the profession or performed exemplary public service on behalf of women. We will also present the 2012 Winnie McLaughlin Scholarship to Jessica Allsop, a second year student at the UNH School of Law.
Please join us for a night of recognition of the achievements of Attorney Rakowsky and Jessica Allsop, and for an opportunity to network with fellow attorneys and judges from across the state. Hors d'oeuvres and cocktails will be provided. A raffle will also be held to support the Winnie McLaughlin Scholarship Fund. The raffle tickets are $5 for one ticket and $20 for five tickets and the raffle items include:
- One-year membership to LaBelle Winery Vineyard Club, Amherst, NH
- Folk Art painting by Debbie Criswell
- Facial at Wingate Salon & Spa, Stratham NH
- Gift card to the Copper Door, Bedford, NH
- Gift basket from Not So Plain Jane's, Manchester, NH
- Handmade pie plate from the Red Door Pottery Studio, Kittery, ME
- Salon services with Ann Hendry of Hair Excitement, Hampton, NH
- Cinemagic movie passes for four people good in NH, ME and MA
- Handmade beaded jewelry from the Beaded Spider
- Signed photograph of Vince Wilfork of the New England Patriots
- Four box seat tickets to any Fisher Cats game in April 2013
- Two Silver Level Flex Vouchers for the Manchester Monarchs
- Official autographed baseball of the Boston Red Sox
- Gift certificate from the Common Man Restaurant
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Join us for Women's Bar County Meetings
Please join us for informal get togethers in whichever county is most convenient for you. We'll meet every other month at different locations to allow our members to connect and network. Bring a friend and enjoy an evening or lunch with other NHWBA members. RSVPs are appreciated but not required. To RSVP, please e-mail the appropriate NHWBA County Representative listed below.
Coos County - Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at Puleo's Restaurant, 26 Main Street, Lancaster, NH. Please RSVP to Sandra Cabrera at cabrerasl@gmail.com.
Grafton County - Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at The Salt Hill Pub, Lebanon, NH. Please RSVP to Viktoriya Kovalenko at v.kovalenko123@gmail.com.
Hillsborough North - Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at Margaritas, 1037 Elm Street Manchester, NH. Please RSVP to Heidi Ames at hames@devinemillimet.com.
HIllsborough South - Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at Stella Blu, 70 East Pearl St., Nashua, NH. Please RSVP to Talesha Caynon at tlcaynon@gmail.com.
Merrimack County - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at Hermanos Cocina Mexicana, in the upstairs lounge. Hermanos is located on the corner of Hills Avenue and Storrs Street in Concord, NH, GPS address: 11 Hills Avenue, Concord, NH 03301. Please RSVP to Marcia Thunberg at Marcia.Thunberg@puc.nh.gov.
Rockingham County - Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at The Holy Grail, 64 Main Street, Epping, NH. Please RSVP to Cathy McKay at cathy.mckay@parnell-mckay.com.
Strafford County - Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 12:30 p.m. at Christopher's Third Street Grille, 16 3rd Street, Dover, NH. Please RSVP to Jeanine Kilgallen at jkilgallen@shaheengordon.com.
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Register Now for NHWBA's
Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy Workshop
When: Friday, October 19, 2012 
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Registration from 8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Where: The Elliot at River's Edge
185 Queen City Avenue
Manchester, NH
Cost: $125 for NHWBA members/ $195 for non-NHWBA members
Free for patients/survivors and their families
One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives. Breast cancer patients face a variety of legal problems related to their illness. Join us on October 19th for a full day CLE approved by the American Bar Association, which will provide valuable information to practitioners representing patients with breast cancer and other serious illnesses, as well as to those representing the family members and survivors of breast cancer patients with their ongoing legal concerns.
The CLE will feature a presentation about the disease, diagnosis and treatment by Dr. Teresa Ponn of the Elliot Breast Health Center. Additionally, our distinguished legal faculty, including Heidi A. Ames, Sabrina C. Beavens, Sandra K. Mann, Patricia M. McGrath, Jennifer Rivett Schick, and Charla Bizios Stevens, will discuss topics pertinent to those diagnosed with breast cancer and their caregivers. These topics include:
- Overview of Employee Health Benefit Plans/ERISA including ERISA and non-ERISA plans, benefits coverage, appeals process including refusal to pay (common treatments and reconstruction), and keeping insurance after diagnosis
- Employment Law Issues including types of leave, reinstatement rights, FMLA coverage and eligibility, ADA, reasonable accommodation, disability discrimination, and RSA 354-A
- Family Law Issues including divorce, custody and child support, alimony, and COBRA
- Medical Decision Making & Estate Planning Issues including surrogate decision making, medical directives, powers of attorney, and wills and revocable trusts
- Financial Issues including credit and bankruptcy
We will also have a panel discussion. The panelists will include Dr. Ponn as well as Christine Howard, MSW, LICSW, who is the Oncology Resource Coordinator at Elliot Regional Cancer Center. Jennifer Turco Beaudet, a NHWBA member, breast cancer survivor, and leader of the Manchester affiliate of the Young Survival Coalition, as well as Lynne Guimond Sabean, a board member of the NHWBA and breast cancer survivor, will provide the patient's perspective on the panel. Plan to join us for this informative CLE. 5.25 NHMCLE credits pending. To register, click here.
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Save the Date: October 21, 2012
Join NHWBA's Team for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk
When: Sunday, October 21, 2012  Time: 1:00 p.m.
Where: Arms Park
Manchester, NH
Come join us or sponsor our team as we walk 3 or 5 miles through Manchester. We will walk in celebration of survivorship, as an occasion to express hope and raise awareness about the steps we can take to help prevent the disease, and as an opportunity to raise money to find cures and support programs and services for those facing the disease.
In 2011, more than 1,000,000 walkers across the country joined the American Cancer Society in the united fight against breast cancer. More than $60 million was raised through Making Strides events.
Join us for a few hours of exercise, inspiration, camaraderie, entertainment, and most importantly, to honor someone you know who has been affected by breast cancer - especially if that person is you.
To join our team or to sponsor us, click here.
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Save the Date: October 25, 2012
Table for Eight with
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Senior Associate Justice Gary E. Hicks
When: Thursday, October 25, 2012 
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Where: Chen Yang Li
Woodbury Court
124 South River Road
Bedford, NH
Cost: Dutch Treat
Table for Eight is a mentoring program that brings an experienced attorney or judge together with 6-7 NHWBA members for dinner and mentoring in a single evening to share experiences and to discuss work, life and any topics of interest in a relaxed setting.
The featured mentor at the Table for Eight on October 25, 2012 is New Hampshire Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Gary E. Hicks. Justice Hicks is a native of Colebrook, New Hampshire. After practicing for 23 years at Wiggin & Nourie in Manchester, he was appointed to the Superior Court in 2001. Then, in 2006, he was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court following the retirement of Senior Associate Justice Joseph P. Nadeau.
Since 2008, Justice Hicks has been a member of the board of trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation, and currently serves as chairperson of the nominating committee. He joined New Hampshire's Webster-Batchelder Inn of Court seven years ago, when he was a judge on the Superior Court.
At the New Hampshire Bar Association's Mid-year Meeting this year, Justice Hicks received the the Philip S. Hollman Gender Equality Award. The award, established on the occasion of Judge Hollman's retirement from the Superior Court bench in 2003, honors Judge Hollman's efforts as a stalwart advocate for gender equality in the legal system.
To register for the Table for Eight with Justice Hicks, click here. If you have any questions about the Table for Eight program, please contact our Executive Director, Gretchen Pyles at Gretchen@nhwba.org.
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Save the Date: November 10, 2012
Volunteer at MooreMart's Holiday Packing Event
When: Saturday, November 10, 2012 
Time: 8:30 a.m - 2:00 p.m.
Where: National Guard Armory
154 Daniel Webster Highway
Nashua, NH
Join NHWBA members to help pack holiday care packages for troops overseas. The NHWBA will be volunteering with Judge Paul Moore's charity organization, MooreMart, which began as a family effort to provide needed but unavailable supplies to a family member serving in Iraq. Four years later MooreMart continues to supply soldiers in
Iraq and Afghanistan with anything they need that will make their job a little easier. The picture above is from Camp Eggers, Afghanistan, which is one of the places MooreMart sends care packages. MooreMart also supports humanitarian projects in Iraq and Afghanistan through shipments of relief supplies to schools, clinics, orphanages and soccer teams. One of the mandates of these humanitarian projects is that the groups allow and encourage participation of women and support the education and advancement of women in those historically discriminatory nations. To learn more about MooreMart, click here.
If you would like to volunteer to help pack holiday care packages, please contact our Executive Director, Gretchen Pyles at Gretchen@nhwba.org.
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Save the Date: November 14, 2012
Table for Eight with
Superior Court Associate Justice John M. Lewis
When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Where: Radici Restaurant
142-144 Congress Street
Portsmouth, NH
Cost: Dutch Treat
Join our featured mentor at the Table for Eight on November 14, 2012, Honorable John M. Lewis, Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court. Judge Lewis earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School. He studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Grenoble, France. Judge Lewis clerked for the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for one year, and then worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as an Assistant Regional Attorney for two years. He then worked as an Associate in the Labor Department of the law firm of Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn in New York, New York until 1982 when he relocated to New Hampshire. Judge Lewis was formerly a shareholder at Borofsky, Lewis & Amodeo-Vickery, P.A. in Portsmouth, NH, where he focused his practice in the areas of personal injury, family law, workers' compensation, and employment law. He served as Chair of the New Hampshire State Board of Education from 1997 to 2001. Judge Lewis was appointed to the Superior Court in 2001.
To register for the Table for Eight with Judge Lewis, click here. If you have any questions about the Table for Eight program, please contact our Executive Director, Gretchen Pyles at Gretchen@nhwba.org.
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Register Now for the 2012
Women in Law Leadership (WILL) Academy
Changing the Rules of the Game: It's About Time
When: December 6-7, 2012
Where: The Palace Hotel
San Francisco, CA
Cost: $445 for ABA Members through September 20, 2012
$570 for Non-ABA Members through September 20, 2012
$320 for Acad/Judge/Govt/Non-profit ABA Members
$420 for Acad/Judge/Govt/Non-profit Non-ABA Members
The Commission on Women in the Profession and the Young Lawyers Division of the ABA will present the 2012 Women in Law Leadership Academy on December 6-7, 2012. Those who attend will obtain concrete advice and guidance on what it takes to be a leader and learn best practices from prominent general counsel, judges, and practitioners. The WILL Academy features interactive and highly informative programs of importance to every woman lawyer and provides a great opportunity to network with leading lawyers and judges from around the country.
Program Sessions Include:
-- The Building Blocks of Success: Business, Community, and Institutional Leadership
-- The Rainmaking X Factor: It Is More Than Just a Plan
-- Pick Me: Critical Self-Promotion Skills for Rainmaking
-- Business Leadership in Alternative Paths
-- Setting Our Sights on the C-Suite
-- Team Leadership: Playing to Our Strengths
-- Communication Skills: Can We Talk?
-- Institutional Leadership: Making a Play for the Top
-- Building a Strategy for Success
-- Negotiation: Everywhere from the Boardroom to the Homeroom
-- Changing the Rules of the Game
For more information about the WILL Academy or to register, click here.
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Check out the New Girls' Network
The New Girls' Network is a group of smart, savvy women dedicated to helping each other advance in the professional world. Their website states that whether fresh out of graduate school or perched atop the corporate ladder, women confront a unique set of challenges in the professional world: they have more opportunities than ever before, but they're still dramatically underrepresented in the highest ranks. The New Girls' Network provides a guide to getting ahead. To learn more, click here.
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Founder & President of Law & Reorder
Addresses the Challenges of Working Women
Deborah Epstein Henry, Esquire, the founder and president of Law & Reorder, recently had her work featured in two articles addressing work/life balance. The first was in an article entitled "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" in the July/August issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The second was in an article in the September 6, 2012 issue of the New York Times entitled "When the Work-Life Scales are Unequal." To learn more about Deborah Epstein Henry or Law & Reorder, click here.
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