Russell F. Hilliard Upton & Hatfield, Portsmouth, NH Russell F. Hilliard, Program Moderator/CLE Committee Member is a partner with Upton & Hatfield, LLP in Portsmouth, NH where he focuses his practice in professional discipline; ADR; commercial and insurance litigation. He earned his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1973, his J.D. from Cornell University Law School in 1976 and his LL.M. in taxation in 1985 from Boston University. Russ is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a past president of the NHBA and a member of its Board of Governors; a member and past-chair of the NHBA’s Committee on Professionalism; a past chair of the NHBA’s CLE Committee; and past chair of the New Hampshire Bar Foundation. He is also the NHBA’s Delegate to the American Bar Association and an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. Russ has participated on numerous CLE panels on trial practice, insurance issues, legislative developments and professional ethics. 9/12 TL