Criminal/Family Law/Litigation
Primary Election
What has the Primary Election got to do with the practice of Personal Injury, Criminal or Family law? Answer: everything. We in New Hampshire are privileged to experience, once every four years, the hand to hand campaigning that candidates must … Continue reading
Hot Coffee
The NH Association for Justice recently screened a documentary entitled “Hot Coffee” at the Red River Theater in Concord. The public was invited. The attendees were from the legal and legislative communities mostly. The film’s title refers to the … Continue reading
Crime and the Media
The tempation is to make an entry on the “issue of the day” whatever that issue may be. Instead, the subject matter of this post will be Crime and the Media and the role that it plays in our lives. … Continue reading
How Delays Deny Justice
The word came down from a clerk in a Hillsborough County Family Court (9th Circut) that all final hearings were being scheduled out to June. Our case is a contested custody case where the Guardian Ad Litem has already … Continue reading
Civility In The Bar
The Summer months bring a (slightly) less frantic pace and the chance to reflect upon the legal profession and its virtues vs. defects. Being newly minted in the local bar leadership, some of the social organization tasks that need … Continue reading
Circuit Courts Are Upon Us
The advent of the Circuit Courts in NH is upon us. The idea is to centralize the services provided by the Court in order to reduce administrative costs and, in theory, to make the Court more convenient for the consumer. One stop … Continue reading
Use of Information
One of my favorite quotes of the past ten years is by the author Philip Caputo who wrote “we drink greedily from the salt water of information while our throats are parched for droplets of wisdom.” So it seems … Continue reading
Welcome
This initial entry announces and celebrates the launch of the Winer and Bennett web site. My areas of law practice are primarily in Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, and Family Law with a cross section of General Litigation as well. The … Continue reading
