We have a strong and long-standing commitment to community service.

Our vision for building a fulfilling work environment depends not only on attracting challenging and complex legal work, but also on enabling and encouraging our professionals to participate in organizations that establish the community fabric in which we live, work, and play. Our professionals donate hundreds of hours every year as board members and volunteers with local non-profit organizations.  Life is more than work, and we are exceptionally proud of the communities where we and our families live and thrive.

Some examples of recent community service by our professionals are:

• Tom Rath Member, Advisory Committee, The New Hampshire Institute of Politics, St. Anselm College; Board of Directors and Past-Chairman, The New England Council; Republican National Delegate.
• Sherry Young Member, Board of Directors and Past Chair, New Hampshire Public Radio Board of Trustees, Member, University of New Hampshire Foundation Board;  Member, Board of Advisors, University of New Hampshire School of Law;  Member, Board of Directors, Walden Bank; Founding Board Member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society; Member, Litigation Counsel of America and the Trial Lawyers’ Honor Society.
• Adam Pignatelli Member, City of Concord Board of Ethics; Member, Executive Committee of Bow Brook Club; Former Member, New Hampshire Bar Board of Governors; Former Member, Capitol Center for the Arts Board of Trustees; Leadership New Hampshire, Class 2014.
• Michael Pignatelli  Former Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Criminal Division; Past member of Nashua Police Commission; Former member, Nashua Board of Alderman; Past member of New Hampshire Judicial Council; State Board of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
• Bill Ardinger Director, Friends of Bridges House Board of Directors; Member, New Hampshire Board of Bar Examiners; Member, Board of Trustees, University System of New Hampshire; Member, New Hampshire Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules; Trustee and Chair, Concord Community Music School.
• Ken Bartholomew Finance and audit committee member, New Hampshire Legal Assistance; former Chair (2015-2024) and member (2009-2024) of the Kearsarge Regional District School Board and Chair of Finance and Audit Committee; former co-chair, Health Law Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association; former board member, New Hampshire Legal Assistance and Legal Advice and Referral Center; former Advisory Council member, New Hampshire Endowment for Health; former board member, Capitol Center for the Arts; former Trustee, Pillsbury Free Library (Warner, NH).
• Kathryn Bibbo: Member, Paint the Town 2012 Committee; Kimball Jenkins School of Art; Board Member, Friends of the Baker Free Library; Assistant Coach, Bow Athletic Club Girls Softball; Member, Board of Directors, New England State and Local Tax Forum; Member, Vermont Tax Advisory Board; Volunteer Wish Granter, Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Hampshire.
• Michael Lewis Past-Board Member, New Hampshire Legal Assistance; Past-Board Member, New Hampshire Supreme Court Society; Special Panel Adjudication, Vice Chairman; Chair of Grievance Committee, United States Tennis Association.
• Gina Powers Member, Government Affairs Committee, Manchester Chamber of Commerce; Member, Board of Directors, Moore Center Services; Member, Gender Ambassador’s Panel, New Hampshire Women’s Initiative; Volunteer, New Hampshire Home Health and Hospice Care; Member, Board of Directors, Mary Gale Foundation; Member, New Hampshire Nonpublic School Advisory Council.
• Alexandria Russell Past-Board Member, New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association (2017-2020).
• Adam Varley Chairman, Nashua Planning Board; Member, Board of Directors, Greater Nashua Dental Connection.
• Chuck Willing Director, Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire; Member, Concord (NH) Energy and Environment Advisory Committee; Former Treasurer, Kuster for Congress, 2015-16 election cycle; Former President, Board Member and Member of Rotary Club of Concord, New Hampshire; Former President and Board Member, the Friends Program, Concord, NH; Former Board Member, Concord Trust for the Advancement of Public Education; Former Board Member, Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association; Former Little League and Youth Soccer Coach.

Rath, Young and Pignatelli is proud to have professionals who have had experience serving in the public sector. 

Through these experiences, our professionals have developed a deeper understanding of how and why laws are made, and how public officials make decisions about when and where to enforce laws.

Some examples of public service by our professionals are:

• Tom Rath  Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire, 1978-1980
• Sherry Young Legal Counsel, Governor Judd Gregg, 1987-1988; Trustee, Vice-Chair and Legal Advisor, University System of New Hampshire, 1990-1997
• Michael Pignatelli Assistant Attorney General, Chief of the Criminal Bureau, New Hampshire Department of Justice, 1979-1984
• Bill Ardinger Member, New Hampshire Commission to Study Public School Funding, 2020-2021; Member, Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery’s Stakeholder Advisory Board, 2020-2021; Elected Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1980-1982
• Ken Bartholomew Law Clerk, Judge Paul Barbadoro, United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 1996-1997
• Mike Lewis  Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire Department of Justice, 2007-2013, Past-Member Judicial Selection Committee

Our former colleagues have continued their public service by serving as:

• Lucy Hodder – Professor of Law, UNH Director of Health Law and Policy Programs; Former General Counsel to Governor Maggie Hassan.
• Paul Barbadoro – Federal District Judge, District of New Hampshire.
• Annie Mclane Kuster – Representative 2nd Congressional District.