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2008 Robert E. Kirby Award

2008 Kirby Award
Charles J. Keefe

Attorney Keefe was selected by a panel of judges from the District, Superior, Probate, Federal, and Supreme Courts to receive the New Hampshire Bar Foundation’s 2008 Robert E. Kirby Award. The award recognizes lawyers, age 35 and younger, who exhibit ‘great skill, civility, and good humor" in the practice of law.

“It is truly humbling to receive this honor in Bob Kirby’s name. It represents a standard of excellence as a lawyer and a person, and I am committed to spending my career trying to live up to it. I consider myself very fortunate to receive the award and be included in such a class of New Hampshire lawyers.”


Robert E. Kirby Award

Frank Rowe Kenison Award | Robert E. Kirby Award

The Robert E. Kirby Award was established in 1996 to honor the memory of Bob Kirby, a young lawyer "of great skill, civility and good humor" who died that year at the age of 35. Kirby was an attorney with the Concord law firm of Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell.

The purpose of the award is to honor Bob's memory and to remind all of us that decency, courtesy and perspective neither inhibits nor defeats excellent advocacy. The Kirby Award recipient is an attorney 35 years old or younger who demonstrates the traits of civility, courtesy, perspective and excellent advocacy.

Nominations for the Robert E. Kirby Award are traditionally solicited in the winter.

Requests for nominations are published in NH Bar News and under Events.

Robert E. Kirby Award Nomination Form

Kirby Award Recipients
2008   Charles J. Keefe, Wilson, Bush, Durkin & Keefe, PC
2007   Joceline D. Champagne, NH Bar Association Pro Bono Referral Program
2006    Mary Ann Dempsey, Wiggin & Nourie, PA
2005    Mary E. Tenn, Tenn And Tenn, PA
2004    Kelly Ayotte, Attorney General
2003    Jennifer Parent, McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, PA
2002    John T. Pendleton, Gottesman & Hollis, PA
2001    Joseph N. Laplante, U.S. Attorneys Office
1999    James J. Tenn, Jr., Tenn And Tenn, PA
1998    Diane Murphy Quinlan, Diocese of Manchester, NH
1997    Mark E. Howard, U.S. Attorneys Office
1996    John P. Kacavas, Kacavas and Ramsdell, PLLC
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