Jared P. O'Connor - Nashua, NH

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts, 2003
    J.D.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Honors: Order of the Coif
    Law Review: BC Environmental Affairs Law Review, Editor, 2002 - 2003

• Non Legal Education

  • University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, 1995
    B.A.
    Honors: cum laude
    Major: English/Philosophy

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Representative Cases

• IMO Ball and Ball, __ N.H. __ (2015) (decision pending) (Child support; how parties’ residence affects which state’s law governs modification of support orders under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act)
• JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA v. Grimes, __ N.H. __ (2015) (Landlord/tenant: whether good cause existed for termination of lease)
• Leeds v. BAE Systems, 165 N.H. 376 (2013) (Wrongful termination: whether trial court should have granted summary judgment on a claim of self-defense during workplace assault)
• IMO Regan and Regan, 164 N.H. 1 (2012) (Child support: scope of trial court authority to order an obligor to pay for medical expenses out of his self-support reserve)
• Appeal of Carnahan, 160 N.H. 73 (2010) (Workers’ compensation: whether the law’s definition of “gainful employment” is the same as the Court’s concept of “earning capacity” for purposes of finding an injured worker totally disabled)
• Appeal of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 156 N.H. 677 (2008) (Workers’ compensation: whether the law will recognize an injured workers’ new repetitive stress injury when overlaid on an older, symptomatic injury caused by trauma)
• IMO State and Taylor, 153 N.H. 700 (2006) (Child support: whether proceeds of a personal injury settlement are considered “gross income” for purposes of calculating a child support obligation)
• Merchants v. Hardy, 153 N.H. 485 (2006) (Insurance law: whether general liability policy precluded a claim for select damages not compensable under workers’ compensation law)
• Berry v. Watchtower, 152 N.H. 407 (2005) (tort law: whether clergy members have a statutory or common law duty to report child sexual abuse to lay authorities)
• Osman v. Gagnon, 152 N.H. 359 (2005) (civil procedure: whether res judicata bars counterclaims in Superior court following a final hearing in small claims court)

Bar Admissions

• New Hampshire, 2003
• U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire, 2003

Other Affiliations

• New Hampshire Association for Justice, Governor at Large, Member of Legislative Committee
• NH Bar Association, Workers’ Compensation Section
• American Inns of Court