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5 New Hampshire Bar News (n.s.) 1 (1994-1995)

handle is hein.barjournals/nhbn0005 and id is 1 raw text is: . HAMPSHI Family Violence Conference ON MAY 12.13, 1994, nearly 425 lawyers, judges and mem- bets of the public gathered in Waterville Valley to learn about the dynamics and im- plications of family violence and to formulate local domes- tic violence coordinating councils. Co-sponsored by thel' w Hampshire Bar Association, the New Hampshire District Court and the New Hamp- shire Bar Foundation, this con- ference provided the largest interdisciplinary eventinNew Hampshire orelsewhere toad- dress this pervasive social and legal problem. The New Hampshire Stater Dr. Beverly Coleman- impact of family violence on Miller, a physician and con- Jeffrey R. Howard, Dr. Bev sultant to Congress and many and 1Mu sic Court Admi. state and private entities, gave Wiliam F. Batchelder, andi opening remarks to the audi- ence. In noting that we have become the most violent society, she stressed that the root of all violence begins in the home, which is also where prevention must occur. She stressed the importance of the medical community working with the legal community, schools, and the law enforcement community to bring our collective talents to the table so that we can better understand how each of us can play a part in reducing this growing problem. INSIDE E IOLTA Grants Award .................... 2 * Meet Your Judges Held in Littleton .... 3 * Display Your Commitment to C lients ....................................... 3 * President's Perspective ................... 4 * President Elect's Perspective .......... 5 0 Blood Donors Needed .................... 6 0 Michael R. Chamberlain Is Special justice ............................ 6 8 Feedback Sought on ALIES Program ............................. 9 N A Lawyer In Every School 1994 Honor Roll .......................... 10 * Law Week 1994 A Huge Success ...... I1 * CLE Seminars and Calendar ............. 12 § CLE Feature Program - Proving Medical Damages ........... 13 Court Survey Results - Part II by Ken Bouchard, Chair Survey Subcommittee of the Committee on the Coop- eration with the Courts THE FOLLOWING IS THE SECOND in a series of articles that will present and analyze :he results of the Committee on Cooperation with the Courts survey. The author draws conlusions from the raw data which represent his interprea- tios alone, and those interpretations are not necessarily the only conclusions that may be drawn from the data. The conclusions are not necessarily those of the Bar Association or of the Committee on the Cooperation with the Courts. Anyone is welcome to review the raw data to draw their own conclusions. The previous article discussed the results concerning the general table on the first page of the survey covering various characteristics of the judges and clerks in the various courts. (See Bar News Vol 4, No. 24, May 18, 1994.) This article discusses the results from the next set of questions which pertained to the various district and municipal courts around the state, and the questions concerning marital practice in the superior courts. Once again, we learned about limitations in the survey struc- cure. Despite the fact that there was a question asking the respondent to list the district court that they spent the most time in, some people listed two or three courts. There were four questions that could have been analyzed specifically to the courts involved (i.e., is court X good at scheduling), but the listing of multiple courts by many people made the analysis difficult at best. Also, some people abbreviated the names of the courts and, in some cases, we could not understand them. Subject to these difficulties, the results follow. Please remember that most of the questions called for a I to 5 response, I being Strongly Disagree and 5 being Strongly Agree, and 3 being Neutral. It must also be remembered that the averages re- ported below are simple averages. That is, to get an average, we multiplied the number of responses with each score by that score, added them all up and divided by the total number of responses. This tends to smooth out the data somewhat. For example, when asked whether the district court judges should be full-time, the scores were as follows: 1 - 12; 2 - 24; 3 - 40; 4- 52; 5 - 73. Looking at the distribution would imply that a lot of people felt pretty strongly that there should be full-time judges; the median score (the one in the middle of the distribution) is a 4 and the mode (the most frequent response) was a 5. COURT SURVEY Continued on page 3 ih Conference on Family Violence opened with an examination of the society. In attendance - (L to R) New Hampshire Attorney General erly Coleman-Miller, NHBA President Susan B. Carbon. NH Distict aistrativeJustice Edwin W. Kely, NH Supreme Court Associate Justice NH Superior Court Chief Jusce Joseph P. Nadeau. Following Dr. Coleman-Miller's address, eight plenary sessions were offered: Treatment Programs for Batterers; Who Do We Call for Help? A Guide to Accessing Resources; Victims as Defendants; Relationship Between Advocates and Law Enforcement Community; Access to Protection (Mandatory v. Presumptive Arrest); Use of Civil Protection Orders; The Role of DCYF in Family FAMILY VIOLENCE Continued on page 4 .2 02 0~ z5 72'

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