Improve the administration of justice; foster and maintain high standards of conduct, integrity, competence, and public service on the part of those engaged in the practice of law; safeguard proper professional interests of the members of the BAR; provide a forum for discussion of subjects pertaining to the practice of law, the science of jurisprudence and law reform, and the relations of the BAR to the public; carry on a continuing program of legal research and education; and encourage cordial relations among members of the BAR, ALL without regard to race, national origin, religion, creed, gender, or sexual orientation, and to the END that the public responsibility of the legal profession may be more effectively discharged. The association confines its activities before the general court (new hampshire legislature) to those matters which are related directly to the adminstration of justice; the composition and operation of the courts; the practice of law and the legal profession