New Hampshire School District Attorney Barbara Loughman Lies!

New Hampshire School District Attorney Barbara Loughman has violated the Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys by repeatedly lying in Court and Court documents on behalf of her client the Newmarket School District.

New Hampshire's rules of professional conduct require honesty. While every attorney wants to win their case for their client, they need to win for the right reason, not because we have played a role in manufacturing evidence or helping clients abuse the legal system.

Attorneys like Barbara Loughman, those who are willing to lie and manufacture evidence to win, do great damage to the legal system.

Adjunct law professor and attorney Rose Safarian has a highly effective way of getting the attention of her students at San Joaquin College of Law in Fresno. "In my professional responsibility course, I tell the truth about what happens to lawyers who do not.

"Lawyers who lie do not end well. They get in trouble with the State Bar, often losing their license, frequently winding up bankrupt, family life in shambles, and sometimes going to jail," she observes. "And often, they send their clients into a living nightmare.

"An attorney is also considered as an officer of the court, taking an oath to support the laws of our country. As it is already hard enough to get to the truth in so many cases, there is no room in our legal system for lawyers who actively try to deceive. The legal system works well when we are all playing by the rules," she maintains.

"You cannot advise a client to commit a crime. You cannot ask or help a client to submit forms to an agency or the court which you know contains lies. You cannot participate in anything that causes the court to be deceived. Knowingly doing so subjects the client and attorney to criminal prosecution," she points out.

Attorney Loughman obviously never took Professor Safarian’s course on ethical responsibilities for attorneys, but she should have. Loughman’s lies and other unethical and immoral actions have caused great harm to many and disgraced herself and the legal profession.

Unethical, immoral, and criminal actions committed by attorney Loughman have no place in the legal system which requires honesty.

Every public school district in NH that employs attorney Loughman or others like her, must end their relationships immediately. No taxpayer funds should ever be used to fund unethical attorneys.

Jeffrey Thomas Clay, M.Ed.