120 Ethics/Professionalism Minutes
Morning Session 9-11 a.m.

Every lawyer wants to have a great career, but only few can transcend modest success and become a "rock-star lawyer." In this program, Stuart Teicher (the "CLE Performer") explains how you can rise to the top by following a new paradigm he calls, "Ethically Inspired Marketing," a concept based firmly in the rules of professional conduct. Since every push toward greatness has its limitations, Stuart will also educate us about the boundaries of chasing success by evaluating the ethical and professional missteps in an ethical biography of the original rock star lawyer, F. Lee Bailey.

Honors & Awards Luncheon
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. (included in CLE registration)

President's Reception (Cash Bar)
5 - 5:45 p.m.

President's Banquet
6 - 8 p.m.

Awards and Recognition to be given at the Luncheon or Banquet:

• Recognition of the 50-Year Members of the Bar
• Recognition and introduction of recently retired and appointed members of the judiciary
• Presentations of NHBA Justice William A. Grimes Award for Judicial Professionalism, the NHBA Award for Distinguished Service to the Legal Profession, and the E. Donald Dufresne Award for Outstanding Professionalism
• Recognition of 2014-2015 Leadership Academy Class
• Presentation of Bar Leadership Gavel to 2015-2016 President Mary Elizabeth Tenn
• Recognition of Outgoing Bar President Lisa Wellman-Ally
• There's still time to make nominations for NHBA awards. Nomination deadline is April 30.

Nominations are sought by April 30 for:

• Justice William A. Grimes Award for Judicial Professionalism
• Distinguished Service to the Legal Profession Award
• E. Donald Dufresne Award for Outstanding Professionalism.

120 NHMCLE Minutes
Afternoon Session 2-4 p.m.

Distilling legal documents to their most basic elements is the key to creating an effective persuasive legal writing. It's also the best way to draft readable documents for transactions. The problem is...it's not so easy to achieve. Join the "CLE Performer" Stuart Teicher, Esq., as he teaches us how to make our legal writings clear, concise and direct. Get down and dirty with some technicalities of sentence structure, get the lowdown on Stuart's "Shortwriting" method for reducing long sentences, and get the skinny on "the only punctuation you'll ever need to know." There will also be a hands-on section where participants rewrite passages on their own and workshop the results as a group.

$199 after June 5

Full Day - New Lawyers (admitted after June 2012): $150
$175 after June 5

Prices include both CLEs and Honors & Awards Luncheon. Purchase extra tickets for lunch or tickets to the president's banquet.

Register online or use the registration form.

Book a room at the downtown Portsmouth Sheraton Harborside Hotel and receive the special group rate of $219 per night (plus tax) between now and May 18.

Be sure to note that you are with the NHBA Annual Meeting when booking. Check-in time is 3 p.m.; check out time is at noon. No charge for cancellations up to 24 hours prior to arrival date. No-shows charged the first night's room rate and taxes.

Stuart Teicher

Stuart Teicher is a professional legal educator. A practicing attorney for more than 17 years, Stuart's career is now dedicated to helping fellow attorneys survive the practice of law and thrive in the profession. Teicher teaches seminars, provides in-house training to law firms and gives keynote speeches at conventions and association meetings. He also provides consultation and representation in attorney disciplinary matters. Stuart helps attorneys get better at what they do (and enjoy the process) through his entertaining and educational CLE Performances. His expertise is in "Technethics," a term Stuart coined that refers to the ethical issues in social networking and other technology. Stuart also speaks about "Practical Ethics" - those lessons hidden in the ethics rules that enhance a lawyer's practice. Teicher is a Supreme Court appointee to the New Jersey District Ethics Committee where he investigates and prosecutes grievances filed against attorneys, an adjunct law professor at Rutgers Law School in Camden, NJ, where he teaches professional responsibility and an adjunct professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where he teaches undergraduate writing courses.