Some of our members have changed jobs:

Sarah Wolf is now with Cornerstone Title LLC/Catalano Law Offices in Portsmouth, NH. 

If you have job news to share, please let us know.

* Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, 214 N. Main Street

* Rath, Young and Pignatelli, One Capital Plaza

Dover:

* Wyskiel, Boc, Tillinghast & Bolduc, 561 Central Avenue

Keene:

* Abramson, Brown & Dugan, Colony Mill, 222 West Street

Laconia:

* Martin, Lord & Osman, One Mill Plaza, 3rd Floor

Manchester:

* Abramson, Brown & Dugan, 1819 Elm Street

* Bernstein Shur, 670 N. Commercial Street, Suite 108

Nashua:

* NH Public Defender, 44 Franklin Street

Portsmouth:

* Cornerstone Title LLC/Catalano Law Offices, One Greenleaf Woods, Suite 201

* Flynn & McGee, 222 Court Street

* Weibrecht Law, PLLC, 155 Fleet Street

At this time of year, we reflect on those things for which we are truly thankful.  For many of us, one of those things is our right to practice law, but that right was not always available to women.  In 1890, women were not allowed to practice law in New Hampshire even if they were licensed in another state.  Attorney Marilla Ricker changed all that.  She filed a highly controversial lawsuit in the NH Supreme Court challenging the exclusionary practice of admitting only men to the practice of law...and won!  Petition of Ricker, 66 N.H. 207 (1890).
 
There are only seven portraits of women hanging in the NH State House.  In 2013, legislation was passed requisitioning a portrait of Marilla Ricker, albeit without state funding.  The NHWBA and the League of Women Voters NH have collaborated to raise funds to complete the Ricker portrait.  We are off to a great start, but we still have a long way to go!
 
As you think about what your career means to you, please consider donating to the Marilla Ricker Portrait Fund.  To review a brochure about the fundraising efforts, click here.  To donate to this worthwhile project, click here.