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Law and Politics

Up In Smoke: Is the Live Free or Die state ready for legal weed?
By Richard Ager. Photos by P.T. Sullivan. Sunday, January 1, 2012

Many of the ambitions of the revolutionary 1960s have been realized. The battles for civil rights and gender equality were pretty successful. The "free love" movement may have run into entanglements with its consequences, but we're certainly a more liberated nation, sexually, than we were in the heydays of the Playboy Club.

It's the Law

Starting New business? get some expert advice

Sunday, January 1, 2012

The late President Harry Truman has many admirers, but few imitators. There are, one suspects, at even the highest echelons of business management, few desks …

Walk the Line? Challenging a DWI charge requires a lot of sober consideration

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

It might surprise you if you're a frequent viewer of detective shows or courtroom dramas, but a policeman who stops a motorist and inquires as …

Betting for Keeps

Thursday, September 1, 2011

When you bet your business in litigation, just hope you win. When you talk about "bet-the-company litigation" in New Hampshire, you could do worse than …

Ready to Complain?

Friday, July 1, 2011

Filing a harassment suit is more complicated than it sounds. When you talk about "harassment," people pretty much assume you're talking about sex. So while …

Legal Labyrinth

Sunday, May 1, 2011

It's not easy to get compensated for medical malpractice. There he is again: you're watching daytime TV and on comes that lawyer - or that …

Capitol Offenses

Representative Democracy?

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

One myth is that most people in New Hampshire know their state reps. This is from a miscalculated belief that if you add politics as …

Resolutions for Both Sides

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Because it's party time for NH politics. 'Tis the season for New Year's resolutions. With 2012 being an election year it's also appropriate to pause …

Occupy This: Why protests in the Granite State are fewer and farther between

Thursday, December 1, 2011

To anyone who doesn't remember the Great Depression, the past few years have indeed been scary economically. The housing collapse wiped out billions of American …

Who's on First? Why our head start in the presidential primary is fair play

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

So, once again, we're smack in the middle of presidential primary season. This time around it is the Republican candidates who are zinging their opponents …

Magic Moments

Saturday, October 1, 2011

When N.H. voters shape the political landscape. We find ourselves in the midst of our once-every-four-years role of choosing the next leader of the country. …

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Features

Getting Pumped

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

How Can Granite State Republicans Breathe New Life into the Grand Old Party? The political winds blow hard in a presidential election year, but for …

Best Lawyers

Every year, the national polling firm Woodward-White performs an exhaustive search for the country's best attorneys and publishes their names in "The Best Lawyers in America." We reprint the New Hampshire attorneys in our October issue, and you can find them here by using the search menu located below.