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In the 2022 edition of “Best Lawyers – New England,” Robert A. Stein has received top-tier acknowledgements from his peers, earning The Stein Law Firm, PLLC national and regional recognition.

Attorney Stein has been recognized for excellence in five practice areas, including Family Law; Personal Injury Litigation; Product Liability Litigation; Trusts and Estates Litigation; and Commercial Litigation.

Attorney Robert A. Stein, of the Stein Law Firm, PLLC has been selected for inclusion by Super Lawyers as a Top Rated General Litigation Attorney. The 2022 edition marks the 15^th consecutive year that Robert Stein, a veteran trial lawyer, teacher of Trial Advocacy, and noted plaintiffs’ attorney, has been included in the publication.

Robert A. Stein has been recognized by the New Hampshire Bar Association for his 50 years of practice and continued excellence in the legal profession.

Attorney Robert A. Stein, of the Stein Law Firm, PLLC has been selected for inclusion by Super Lawyers for Top Rated General Litigation Attorney. The 2021 edition marks the 7^th consecutive year that Robert Stein, a veteran trial lawyer, teach of Trial Advocacy, and noted plaintiffs’ attorney, has been included in the publication.

Attorney Christine M. Hanisco of The Stein Law Firm in Concord, New Hampshire has been elected Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of Resolve New England.  RNE provides support, education and advocacy to those struggling with fertility and family building throughout New England.  Attorney Hanisco has brought her experience as an adoption and assisted reproduction attorney to the RNE Board since 2017.  She looks forward to further contributing to RNE’s mission and expanding its reach to all who can benefit from its work.

In the 2022 edition of “Best Lawyers – New England,” Robert A. Stein has received top-tier acknowledgements from his peers, earning The Stein Law Firm, PLLC national and regional recognition.

Attorney Stein has been recognized for excellence in four practice areas, including Family Law; Personal Injury Litigation; Product Liability Litigation; Trusts and Estates Litigation; and this year in a new category: Commercial Litigation.

Robert A. Stein of The Stein Law Firm, PLLC have been selected by his peers for inclusion in the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America.  Attorney Stein has been listed in multiple areas including, Plaintiff Personal Injury Litigation, General Litigation, Trust and Estate Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, Family Law Litigation, and Commercial Litigation.  The 2021 edition marks the 32^nd consecutive year that Stein, a veteran trial lawyer and noted plaintiffs’ attorney, has been included in the publication.

On Monday, July 19^th Governor Chris Sununu signed into law House Bill 1162 which modernizes New Hampshire’s adoption law and expands access to parentage orders for families created through donor conception. Attorney Chrissy Hanisco drafted the legislation with input from local attorneys, as well as from Attorneys Polly Crozier and Chris Erchull of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and ACLU of New Hampshire’s Political Director Jeanne Hruska and Trans Justice Organizer Palana Belken. The law makes three significant changes: first, it allows unmarried couples to adopt, including in stepparent situations; second, it allows LGTBQ+ parents to obtain a confirmatory adoption for the non-genetic parent regardless of their marital status; and third it allows nongenetic parents who conceived using donor gametes the ability to obtain a parentage order.  These changes will give legal security to children by issuing judicial decrees that must be given full faith and credit outside of New Hampshire.

“Establishing the bond of parentage – the legal connection between a child and their parents –  is core to a child’s stability and security,” said Attorney Chrissy Hanisco, adoption and assisted reproduction practitioner at the Stein Law Firm, PLLC. “All New Hampshire children deserve to have access to that security, whether born through donor conception or if they lost parents from the opioid crisis or other circumstances. Adoption is one important route to create legally-affirmed parent-child relationships. This law removes outdated barriers to adoption and parentage judgments that have for too long left some children and families vulnerable, with no path to establish that critical connection.”

Attorney Hanisco wishes to thank Representative Ed Butler who once again championed the rights of children and families, secured bipartisan support in both chambers, and shepherded the bill through a highly unique legislative session!