New Hampshire Business Review - May 19, 2023

May 18, 2023

Jeff Feingold

Robotic Hand Assisting Person For Signing Document

‘World’s first robot lawyer’ short-circuited by prosecutors, faces class action suit

Tom Jarvis-NH Bar News,

DoNotPay chatbot app raises questions, and hackles about the use of AI for legal services

U.S. attorney indicts Nashua health club owner on $1 million Covid relief fraud

Jeff Feingold,

Charges include bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering

Women representing themselves win eviction case in NH Supreme Court

Pat Grossmith -Manchester Ink Link,

Justices send case of two tenants in Manchester building back to Circuit Court

NH considers reducing first-time drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors

Jamie L. Costa-Concord Monitor,

Measure aims to lower first-time charges and address institutionalized racism

Friends of New Hampshire Drug Courts expands to support federal program

Jeff Feingold,

Nonprofit begins to offer ‘critical’ services to LASER docket

Legal Briefs: News From Around NH

Jeff Feingold,

State Supreme Court sides with short-term rental owner, new attorneys at Devine Millimet, Orr & Reno … and more

Federal, local grants help build housing – but NH still has a long way to go

Michaela Towfighi-Concord Monitor,

Despite cluster of funding sources, development of affordable housing is getting ‘more difficult’

GreenPages returns to New Hampshire

Paul Briand,

Workplace flexibility is centerpiece of firm’s new office

McIntyre building to be sold at auction

Jeff Feingold,

GSA launches online bidding process for 2.1-acre downtown Portsmouth property

'New Hampshire’s housing crisis is a human rights issue'

The NH Center for Justice and Equity,

Housing Action NH director ties equity and access to state’s housing plight

More news from NHBR:

Shaping NH's health care landscape

NH Hospital Association President Steve Ahnen discusses health care landscape in the state, federal and state policies affecting patients, AI in health care and more

Fake Medicare Card With Fake Us Currency And Pen.

Exit stage left: Two insurers leave NH’s Medicare Advantage market

Anthem and Martin’s Point are exiting the state entirely, Aetna is shrinking its coverage to just one county, and others are adjusting their plans, leaving some of the state’s counties with limited choices

Unbottling the Nongfu Spring deal

New Hampshire’s attorney general says no improprieties by state officials preceded the sale of a large Nashua commercial building to China’s largest water bottler. But Attorney General John Formella’s report to Gov. Kelly Ayotte dated Oct. 3 says the provisions of federal law should have taken place prior to the sale of the 337,391-square-foot building at 80 Northwest Blvd. in Nashua by a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring.