The Insider cross-examines the UNH School of Law

Reference and electronic resources librarian Tom Hemstock shows us where the microfiche is kept, deep in the bowels of the library. In a law school setting, a librarian like Tom can garner rock star status. Consider the microfiche one of his deeper cuts.

School founder Robert Rines was, among other things, an inventor. (Also on that list: soldier, composer, scientist, musician and Loch Ness Monster hunter). The school’s earliest focus was on patent law, a tradition that carries on today. Here, we see an expanding drum for a paper-cutting machine, submitted for patent in 1878.

Receptionist Jan Neuman is considered an institution and a treasure by those who work and study with her. Look her up for a detailed history of the campus’s expansion from a former silver factory to a six-building campus with additions galore!

Some of the school’s 445 enrolled students honing their legal mind-blades. Aspiring lawyers flock to Concord from such diverse international locations as China, Jamaica, Iraq, Morocco, Germany and even Canada!

What’s a law school without a bunch of old books? The school was founded in a bull barn (perfect for lawyers!) in East Concord back in 1973, but it looks like some of these books might just predate that.

The best lawyers need to be able to think abstractly. Good thing there are pieces of art like this one, “Swirl of Color #2” by Joshua Marcus, displayed all around the campus of the law school.

What happens when you press the “4” elevator button in a building with only three floors? The Insider simply had to find out! Spoiler alert: nothing happened. Turns out, the building was originally designed with expansion in mind, but a fourth floor was never built.

Donna Garofoli shows off the latest in functional fashion at the bookstore. She must have had to run a clearance sale when the school officially changed its name from the Franklin Pierce Law Center last August. Make it rain, Donna!

I told you they made Sandra Day O’Connor bobblehead dolls; pay up. O’Connor may not be on staff, but some faculty have donned the black robes; Dean John Broderick Jr. was chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 2004 to 2010.