Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2016 Campaign Kick-off on May 26, especially our sponsors who made the morning possible; our client speaker, Abby, who shared her incredibly moving story; and Justice John T. Broderick, Jr., who spent so much of his career improving access to justice for all New Hampshire residents.
The 2016 Campaign Kick-off was a record-breaking success, with sponsors and attendees contributing more than $73,000 to support the critical legal aid programs at New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the Legal Advice and Referral Center.
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- Campaign Leadership Council Chairman Jack Sanders, left, presented former NH Supreme Court Justice John Broderick with the first John E. Tobin, Jr., Justice Award, named for the recently retired former executive director of NHLA, on right.
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- Because of the generosity of our sponsors and guests, the 2016 Campaign Kick-off breakfast raised more than $73,000 in gifts and pledges to support the civil legal aid work of New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the Legal Advice and Referral Center
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- Nearly 300 people attended the 2016 Campaign Kick-off
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- New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice James P. Bassett
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- Nearly 300 people attended the 2016 Campaign Kick-off
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- State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark
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- Campaign Leadership Council member Peter Heed
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- Campaign Leadership Council Chairman Jack Sanders thanks the Kick-off sponsors for their support, which benefits the civil legal aid programs at New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the Legal Advice and Referral Center
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- NHLA Executive Director Lynne Parker
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- LARC Interim Executive Director Breckie Hayes-Snow
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- The Campaign recently created the John E. Tobin, Jr., Justice Award, named in honor of the recently-retired former executive director of NHLA
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- Governor Hassan honoring John Tobin’s career advocating for the rights of low-income and vulnerable New Hampshire residents
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- NHLA Deputy Director Mary Krueger speaks about the importance of funding for civil legal aid to protect victims of intimate partner violence
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- Former legal aid client Abby Howard shares her story of how legal aid helped her leave an abusive marriage and protect her children
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- New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda S. Dalianis listens to a former legal aid client sharing her story
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- Judge Joseph LaPlante of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire listens to a former legal aid client sharing her story
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- Campaign Leadership Council Chairman Jack Sanders presented Abby with a bouquet, and thanked her for sharing her story
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- Abby, with her former advocate, NHLA Deputy Director Mary Krueger
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- Governor Maggie Hassan thanks client speaker Abby Howard for sharing her story of how legal aid helped her when she left her abusive marriage
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- Jack Sanders introducing keynote speaker and Tobin Award recipient Justice John Broderick
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- Celebrating Justice Broderick’s commitment to improving access to justice for all
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- Justice Broderick delivers his keynote address
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- Renee Plummer of Portsmouth listens during Justice Broderick’s keynote address
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- James Kerouac, chairman of the overlapping board of directors for NHLA and LARC
We are especially grateful to our keynote speaker, Justice John T. Broderick, Jr., the first recipient of the John E. Tobin, Jr., Justice Award.
In his keynote address, Justice Broderick said
“The wise and tested people who risked life and limb to break from England during a long, uncertain and bloody war for independence knew firsthand the vagaries and often crippling injustice of an all-powerful monarch.
So when they sat to draft our founding document, they made sure to guarantee affordable and prompt access to the courts. They knew its value.
We are not honoring their commitments or the risks they took to make them.
But we can start today by continuing systemic justice redesign, securing more federal dollars for more legal services lawyers, securing more volunteer lawyers to assist the poor, by licensing legal technicians, by promoting unbundling rather than finding excuses not to do it and by asking everyone to write a check.
We can all do something. And we need to. If we don’t act, who should act?”
