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3 New Hampshire Bar News (n.s.) 1 (1992-1993)

handle is hein.barjournals/nhbn0003 and id is 1 raw text is: qew r-aimpihire 13AR NEWSI5 Vofume 3, Nymber 1, Page 1 June 3, 1992 Q&A Comments Address Fund Issues Bar Members To Vote On Special Annual Assessment For Clients' Indemnity Fund The following story includes a brief history of the Bar Association's Clients' Indemnity Fund and provides contrasting views on whether the legal profession is responsible to compensate parties who suffered financial losses due to a; torney dishonesty. Bar News presents the viewpoints of two Bar members, one in support of a proposed annual assessment and one against an assessment, in advance of a Bar member vote on a recommendation that a five-year annual assessinent be made to all (active and inactive) Bar members to increase the balance of the Clients' Indemnity Fund. According to its enacting resolution, the Bar Association's Clients' Indemnity Fund, created in 1960, was established for reimbursement, in whole or in part, to clients of New Hampshire lawyers of losses sustained by them by reason of the embezzlement, conversion or theft by New Hampshire lawyers of money, funds, securities or property belonging to their clients or held by the lawyer as a fiduciary... In accordance with the Fund's Rules of Procedure, the Clients' Indemnity Fund will not entertain claims for reimbursement until the claimant has shown that all reasonable legal and other avenues against all potential obligers on the claim have been exhausted. Prior to any reimbursement through the Fund, claimants must execute a subrogation agreement in favor of the Fund against the offending lawyer. Fund Divorce In Troubled Economy Is Focus Of July 23 CLE Program Offered At Reduced Fee In addition to affecting the business community, the recent economic recession has had a direct impact on the quality of life for many families in New Hampshire. Unemployment, poor job prospects, changes in lifestyles and the emotional trauma that accompanies personal financial crises place considerable strain on marital relations. To help attorneys further under- stand the special divorce issues that arise during difficult economic times, the New Hampshire Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program and New Hampshire Pro Bono Referral System will sponsor a seminar on to page 12 Divorce to page 17 Bar Foundation Seeks Nominees To Serve On Grants Committee The New Hampshire Bar Foun- dation is seeking nominees to run for one five-year seat on the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts IOLTA Grants Committee. The five-member Grants Committee receives and reviews requests from programs providing legal services to the disadvantaged and public information about the courts and the law. The committee makes annual funding recommendations to the board of directors of the Bar Foundation. The deadline for nominations is June 24. Ballots will be mailed out by July 14 and will be due back by July 29. The five-year term is scheduled to start immediately after the election Grants to page 7 IOLTA Means Justice For Many N.H. Legal Assistance Gives Poor People A Chance For Justice And Dignity The following is one in a series of reports submitted by organizations receiving Interest On Lawyers Trust Accounts Program funding. by Robert D. Gross, Executive Director New Hampshire Legal Assistance Thc L urt notes that plaintiffs' counsel, New Hampshire Legal Assistance, has a well-established record of vigorous advocacy on behalf of clients whose interests they have long represented in both federal courts... and courts of the state... Roux v. Mongan (D.N.H. March 9. 1990) (Devine, C.I.) New Hampshire Legal Assist- ance (NHLA) is a statewide legal services organization providing consistently high quality free legal services to tile poor. The review committee commends NHLA for its performance... (United Way of Merrimack County) Your office helped restore my faith in the legal system and humanity. (NHLA Client) These accomplishments are a tribute to the attorneys who established New Hampshire Legal Assistance and have nurtured the NHLA to page 6

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