Clinic services
Community members can seek help from the Pierce Law Clinics. If they meet economic, legal and jurisdictional guidelines, they will be represented by law students supervised by practicing attorneys.
- Client financial guidelines
- Things we can and can’t help you with
- The types of cases that may be considered:
- Auto Fraud
- Bankruptcy
- Business start-ups
- Copyright registration and counseling
- Court Appointed Criminal Cases
- Debt collection defense
- Department of Employment Security (Unemployment)
- Department of Health and Human Services cases
- Department of Safety
- Foreclosure and predatory lending
- Intellectual property disputes
- Landlord/Tenant
- Non-profit entity organization and exempt status application representation
- Patent licensing
- Trademark registration and counseling
- Transactional work
- Contact us
- Other agencies that might be able to help you
Client financial guidelines
Please note that Pierce Law Clinics only work with low income clients. Certain financial criteria must be met before our services are offered. For more details please contact our office.
Consumer and Commercial Practice Clinic
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Type of cases considered: |
Limited to these jurisdictions, counties and towns: |
| Bankruptcy Generally to preserve the homestead |
New Hampshire |
| Debt collection defense | Belknap and Sullivan counties |
| Foreclosure and predatory lending - case by case Explanation - Predatory lending is any number of fraudulent, deceptive, discriminatory or unfavorable lending practices. Many of these practices are illegal, while others are legal but not in the best interest of the borrower. |
Belknap and Sullivan counties |
| Auto Fraud Financial bait and switch, not lemon vehicles |
Belknap and Sullivan counties |
| Landlord/Tenant Tenants in eviction process only and served Notice to Quit. We cannot take cases involving non-payment of rent. Explanation - A Notice to Quit document is the legally required first step a landlord takes to regain possession of rental property. |
Belknap and Sullivan counties |
Administrative Advocacy Clinic
for Hillsborough and Merrimack counties
Type of cases considered:
- Department of Employment Security (Unemployment)
Denial of benefits or appeals by employers when the employee is given unemployment compensation benefits - Department of Health and Human Services cases
Such as Food Stamp denial, nursing home denial or Medicaid benefits denial - Department of Safety
Suspension of license for uninsured motorist
Criminal Practice Clinic
Type of cases considered:
- ONLY court appointed criminal cases
Misdemeanor A and Felony B
If you are eligible, you may be given opportunity for an attorney at the time of arrest. Sometimes the appointed attorney is the Pierce Law Criminal Practice Clinic.
Intellectual Property and Transaction Clinic
(No prior art searches or patent applications)- Clients can live in any county in New Hampshire.
For federal issues, copyright and trademark, clients can live anywhere. - Clients must be unable to afford an attorney.
- Clients are responsible for paying all filing fees and costs.
Although different filing fee levels are available, trademark registrations filed in the clinic carry a $325 filing fee per mark per international class. The filing fee for copyright registration application is $35 for electronically filed applications and $45 for paper filed applications.
Type of cases considered:
- Copyright registration and counseling
- Trademark registration and counseling
- Transactional work
Including intellectual property licenses and assignments, recordation of documents with the Patent and Trademark Office and Copyright Office, non-disclosure agreements, consulting agreements and entertainment industry releases and agreements - Non-profit entity organization and exempt status application representation
- Intellectual property disputes
- Business start-ups
- Patent licensing
No patent prosecution
Contact us
Franklin Pierce Law Center Clinic
Two White Street
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: (603) 225-3350
Ellen M. Lessard, Office Manager, Clinical Programs
Lynn Blanchard, Clinical Programs Administrative Assistant
Others agencies that might be able to help you
Those seeking assistance in areas that we do not cover may choose to contact one of these agencies.
| LARC Legal Advice and Referral Center 1 (800) 639-5290 Mon-Tue-Thur-Fri 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. |
NH Legal Assistance 1 (800) 562-3174 Mon-Wed-Fri 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
| Lawline 1 (800) 868-1212 2nd Wed. of month 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. |
Help for NH Homeowners The Foreclosure Prevention Initiative Understanding and preventing foreclosure with statewide and national resource listings |
Supporting our efforts to help you
The Consumer and Commercial Law Clinic and Administrative Law and Advocacy Clinic are funded, in part, by the New Hampshire Bar Foundation IOLTA Grant Program.
Pierce Law Clinics started with a vision
In Memoriam
Bruce E. Friedman, 1947-1997
Professor of Law and
Director, Civil Practice Clinic
As an attorney for children and the underrepresented in New Hampshire, Professor Friedman, with the help of his students, won major victories in the New Hampshire Supreme Court over the State Personnel Commission, Division of Mental Health, Division of Welfare, Department of Employment Security and Division of Children and Youth.
