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    Trump 2.0

    Date: September 9, 2025, 8:00am – 10:00am
    Organizer:
    SHRA
    Location:
    To be determined
    Price:
    MEMBERS: $15 Virtual, $25 In-Person / NON-MEMBERS: $25 Virtual, $45 In-Person / NOTE: If you sign up for a meeting and end up not attending nor notifying Daniela, you will be charged for the meeting to cover the cost of breakfast.
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    Monthly Program
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    Description: Due to all the changes occurring in the new administration, Attorneys Debra Weiss Ford of Jackson Lewis P.C. and Brian Bouchard of Sheehan Phinney will be presenting to keep us updated on these fast-paced changes.

    More details to come.

    About our Speakers: 

    Debra Weiss Ford is Office Managing Principal of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire office of Jackson Lewis P.C.  Ms. Ford has over 40 years of experience representing employers in litigation matters before the state and federal courts and administrative agencies. She also represents employers before the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights, the Maine Human Rights Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New Hampshire Department of Labor, and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.  

    Ms. Ford is listed by Chambers as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.  She is the author of the New Hampshire chapter of Workplace Privacy, a legal reference book for managers and human resource professionals, published by the Thompson Publishing Group, a division of West Publications.  Ms. Ford was elected as a Fellow to The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in June 2006 and selected as a Senior Fellow in The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society by the Litigation Counsel of America in 2014.  She is named as New Hampshire’s Best Labor and Employment Lawyer by Business NH Magazine.  She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America by Woodward White, Inc., and has been recognized by New England Super Lawyers as one of the top 50 women lawyers in New England and one of the top 100 lawyers in New England.  She is listed in Top NH Lawyers in Labor and Employment in New Hampshire Magazine and has consistently been named the Best Lawyers’ Manchester Employment Law – Management Lawyer of the Year.  She is also rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell.  Ms. Ford has been named one of the “Leaders in their Field” in the Chambers USA Legal Guide since 2012. Ms. Ford is rated a “Top Rated Lawyer” by American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell™. Ms. Ford serves as a board member for the Seacoast Human Resources Association, New Hampshire SPCA, and she is a past board member of The Portsmouth Music Hall. 

    Brian Bouchard, Esq. is a seasoned litigator and counselor at Sheehan Phinney in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he works in the firm’s litigation, employment law, and land use departments.  In the labor and employment field particularly, Brian counsels and represents companies through all manner of complexities, including claims involving discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour violations; questions involving employee management, executive contracts, employee mobility; and legal compliance. Brian’s clients range from VC backed tech companies in Boston, to small rum distilleries on the Seacoast, to non-profits in Maine, and everything in between.   Brian has written and lectured on legal topics throughout New England and is never unimpressed by the complex issues facing employers, businesses, and individuals on a daily basis.

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