Don't miss the bar's biggest meeting of the year - the Midyear Meeting in Manchester on Feb. 27. It's a chance to network with lawyers and judges from all over the state and earn a full day's worth of affordable CLE credits.

Visit the Midyear Meeting page to find out more about the meeting.

Register for the meeting by Jan. 27 to take advantage of early bird pricing. Use the registration form or Register online.

The March issue of Bar News will feature articles related to elder law and estate planning.

Do you have an idea for a timely and short (1,000 words max.) article of interest to a general legal audience? Commentaries also considered. For more information, please read the submission guidelines.

Contact Editor Kristen Senz by Feb. 9. Completed articles will be due Feb. 23.

NH Bar Association Ethics Committee Opinion 2014-15/5 addresses the lawyer's authority to disclose confidential client information, over a client's objection, to protect a client from elder abuse or other threats of substantial bodily harm.

Read a condensed version of the opinion in this month's Bar News.

SAVE THE DATE: NHBA·CLE is offering a CLE on Elder Abuse on June 12th. Watch for details.

Cheshire County family law attorneys, can you help a Pro Bono client who suffers from depression and has not seen her children since May of last year?

She is now the respondent in a divorce action in Keene Family Division and needs an advocate to help her with a parenting plan. There is no property to be divided, and our client's only goal is more contact with the children. For more information, please contact Carolann Wooding.

Co-Sponsored by the NH Bar Association's Mental and Physical Disabilities Law Section, a special one-hour CLE webcast on the ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience) Act of 2014 will be available to NH Bar members. If you are:

• An estate planner
• A tax attorney
• Or you represent disabled individuals

You won't want to miss this!

WHAT: Signed into law Dec. 19, 2014, the federal ABLE Act provides a new opportunity for qualified individuals with disabilities to have tax-free savings accounts that will support their health and independence while preserving means-tested government benefits.

WHEN: 9-10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28

WHO: New Hampshire attorney John Kitchen participated in the drafting of the ABLE Act. Recognized as an expert in New Hampshire and nationally on disabilities law, Kitchen will speak about the law and its implications for individuals with disabilities.

Sign up now to learn how this new law may impact your clients here in New Hampshire!

Check out the "Arts & the Law" issue of the Bar Journal, now available online in PDF or for purchase as a printed copy.

Consult the issue's Table of Contents to browse for articles touching on a variety of practice areas including business law and intellectual property.

The issue also includes several artists in the law, including Portsmouth attorney Haden Gerrish, whose watercolor graces the cover. Inside are profiles of attorneys Paul Durham (children's book author), and Lynne Guimond Sabean (photographer), with samples of their works, and a profile of Melissa Anne Miller, the "artist in residence" at Orr & Reno in Concord.

The American Mock Trial Regional Tournament hosted by Saint Anselm College in Manchester is looking for attorneys and sitting or retired judges to act as judges in the tournament, Jan. 30-Feb. 1. Also acceptable as judges are law students with mock trial experience, paralegals and court clerks.

Judges are still needed for the following time slots:

• Round 1 at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30 = 9 more needed
• Round 2 at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 31 = 1 more needed
• Round 3 at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31 = 5 more needed
• Round 4 at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 = 16 more needed

Sandwich/sub dinner will be provided Friday evening. Continental breakfasts both Saturday and Sunday mornings, lunch on Saturday. All volunteers are invited to the banquet brunch/lunch on Sunday. This is not a NH Bar-sponsored program.

Register or find out more about the Regional Mock Trial tournament.

The Rudman Center at UNH Law hosts "Political Reform," an evening with former Senator Olympia Snowe and former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman. Snowe recently wrote Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress.

Snowe will engage in discussion with Glickman, who is currently a Bipartisan Policy Center senior fellow and co-chairs its Commission on Political Reform. This event is free and open to the public.

To register, call 513-1118 or email Idell.Champagne@law.unh.edu.

Are you reading a good book that your colleagues might enjoy? Bar News occasionally publishes book reviews. There is a list of books available for review, but unsolicited reviews may also be accepted. Please contact Lisha Brosseau if you are interested in contributing.

Cocaine in Maine
In 1984, cocaine trafficking in Maine was considered an urban problem. But in the sticks of the midcoast, a loose cartel of freewheeling, twenty-something drug dealers was building an empire. Read more.

Why the modern world is bad for your brain
In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter, we're all required to do several things at once. A neuroscientist explains how our addiction to technology is making us less efficient.

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