The NH Bar Association is now accepting online payment of annual membership dues and court fees! Have your invoices handy and visit NHBA's membership renewal page, which can also be accessed from the NHBA website home page. In addition, you may elect section memberships and opt to donate to the Campaign for Legal Services.

View the annual renewal page for more information about processing your payment online and submitting your annual Trust Account Compliance/IOLTA form, which must be returned by US Mail. If you do not wish to pay online, please remember to total the amounts on your invoices and write one check payable to NH Bar Association.

If you're interested in joining or returning as a member of a NH Bar Association Committee, please take this survey now and indicate your areas of interest. Whether you have been previously appointed and wish to remain on a committee, or you would bring new insights as a new member, please let us know of your interest.

Want to know more about what the NHBA Committees are and what they do? Click here.

The survey closes at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 11.

Register by Friday for a deeply discounted rate on our all-day CLE program and lunch at the Portsmouth Sheraton.

This year's affordable and informal Annual Meeting also features practical demonstrations and presentations on topics important to bar members, including:

• Mainstay Technologies - IT Security: Protecting Your Law Office in an Age of Rapidly Evolving Risk, and Keys to Managing IT that Every Law Practice Manager Needs to Know (Presented by Mainstay Founder Ryan Barton)
• LawPay - Accepting Credit Cards as Payment. Spend more time practicing law and less time focusing on accounts receivable.

President's Banquet - Tickets to the awards banquet are on sale now and must be purchased separately from the CLE program registration. Honorees include NH Supreme Court Clerk Eileen Fox, State Law Librarian Mary Searles and retired Circuit Court Judge Albert J. Cirone Jr.

Manage Your Level of Risk - Join us from 8:30-10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 21, for a breakfast CLE outlining the top five reasons lawyers get sued and guidelines for keeping your risk level down. This program will be presented by attorney Sally Field of Attorney Protective, a professional liability insurance provider the NHBA Insurance Agency.

The NHBA Paralegal Professionalism Award is presented annually to the nominee who best exhibits a high degree of professionalism. Attributes of award-recipients include: possessing an outstanding level of knowledge about the job; having motivation that exceeds expectations; being considered a role model for other paralegals; and promoting paralegal work as a profession.

Nominations should be in the form of a one-page narrative and should be submitted by Friday, July 18, to NHBA Paralegal Award, 2 Pillsbury St., Suite 300, Concord, NH 03301-3502. The Paralegal Award will be presented during the luncheon at the Paralegal Association's Annual Meeting in September 2014.

The NH Bar International Law Section seeks nominations for the 2014 Daniel Webster International Lawyer of the Year Award.

This award honors a NH Bar member "whose contribution to international law demonstrates the spirit of Daniel Webster and whose good works help elevate the standing of the legal profession and serve as an inspiration to others."

Nominations may be made by any member of the NH Bar, with or without notice to the nominee. Submissions should include a description of the contributions made by the nominee and be sent by June 30 to Phillip J. Walker.

As of June 1, Casemaker is providing ALL premium services to NH Bar members for FREE, such as:

• CaseCheck+ - A negative citator system that informs you if the case you're reading is still good law.
• CasemakerDigest - daily email summaries of state and federal appellate decisions (within 12-24 hours of publication), listed by practice area.
• CiteCheck - Upload a brief and in minutes Casemaker will automatically check your citations to be sure they are still good law.

The NH Bar Journal Editorial Advisory Board invites contributions for a new approach to the long-form Bar Journal. We are going to develop themes that cut across practice areas and explore areas of the law of interest to members of the New Hampshire Bar. 

We also are interested in revealing the artistic side of our members and are starting with a new format for the Bar Journal this fall - Arts & the Law.

We are seeking article proposals addressing this topic - whether it's about intellectual property aspects of artistic creations, business law for artists, arts organizations, performance or artistic representation issues, privacy and art, estate law as it relates to the arts, ownership issues - please contact us.

Also, if you are a Bar member who is willing to share your artwork with the membership - we invite you to submit images of your work for potential use in the issue.

Article deadline: Sept. 15. 

Article ideas to Lorne Fienberg issue editor.

A couple of attorneys are needed to round out staffing for Lawline on Wednesday, June 11, to be held at the Bar Center. Volunteers answer calls and provide information of a general nature to callers, anonymously. (No attorney-client relationships are formed.)

The Bar Association provides a light dinner to volunteers. Through our call-forwarding service, it is possible to volunteer for Lawline from your home or office as well.

Contact Lisha Brosseau if you are interested in participating next week.

The Bar's free telephone legal advice service, Lawline, is held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 6 to 8 p.m.

Future Lawline dates (held at various law offices around the state): July 9; Aug. 13; Sept. 10; Oct. 8; Nov. 12; and Dec. 10.

Date/Time: noon-1:30 p.m., Friday, June 13

Credits: 1.5 General NHMCLE Credits

The presenters provide a review the 2014 New Hampshire Child Support Guidelines, including changes from last year. They also discuss any new cases on child support. Practice tips will be provided, including how the July 1, 2013, changes to the guidelines have impacted child support cases, from litigation to settlement.

Sign up for the in-person program in the NH Bar Seminar Room.

Sign up for the live webcast and watch on your computer.

Child Support not your area of practice? Check out our other Upcoming Programs or CLE Product Catalog for more NHBA*CLEs.

Bar News is now accepting article proposals related to federal practice and bankruptcy. Please contact Managing Editor Kristen Senz by Monday, June 9, with your ideas. Completed articles should be 800-1,000 words and submitted by Monday, June 23.

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