Biography

BA, Middlebury College;
JD, Boston University;
LLM, Columbia University;
MBA, Plymouth State University

Professor Forgues is an attorney, professor of business law, and aspiring data scientist. She has a diverse legal background that includes litigation and transactional experience at both large and mid-sized law firms, a judicial clerkship that included an impeachment, and an internship with former United States Congressman and presidential primary candidate Bernard Sanders (I-D). She knows just enough about data science to be dangerous.

Professor Forgues enjoys sports and recreation of all kinds. She has joined Plymouth State University students in playing ice hockey against the Boston Bruins Alumni team, playing basketball against the Harlem Rockets, and playing flag football with Doug Flutie in Plymouth State University’s Flutie Fest 2011. She also enjoys general aviation, and occasionally you can see her flying a Cherokee Warrior around the Plymouth airport.

Selected Cases and Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Chantalle R. Forgues & Daniel S. Lee, The Pathos of Success: A Demonstration of Text Analytics Correlating Plaintiff Use of Sentiment Words with Litigation Success, 24 U.N.H. L. Rev. 5 (2025).
• Chantalle R. Forgues, Fair Use in the Rag Trade: In Defense of the Fashion Industry’s Casual Appropriation of Artwork, 46 Colum. J.L. & Arts 187 (2022).
• Chantalle R. Forgues & Daniel S. Lee, Will Your Clients Be Sued? Big Data Analytics Can Help Predict Lawsuits, Bloomberg Law, Dec. 27, 2019.
• Chantalle R. Forgues & Daniel S. Lee, Using Big Data Analytics Tools to Predict Litigation Outcomes, N.H. Bar News, Dec. 18, 2019, at 1.
• Chantalle R. Forgues, Traps for the Unwary Commercial Drone User, 50 Bus. L. Rev. 41 (2017).
• Chantalle R. Forgues, Jason R. Mazanov & Julie Smith, Human Milk Doping and the Paradox of Anti-Doping Policy, 5 Performance Enhancement & Health 158 (2017).
• Chantalle R. Forgues, A Global Hurdle: The Implementation of an International Nondiscrimination Norm Protecting Women from Gender Discrimination in International Sports, 19 B.U. Int’l L.J. 247 (2000).

LEGAL NEWS PUBLICATIONS

• Forgues, C.R. (2020, Mar 18). Supreme Court At-a-Glance.New Hampshire Bar News,pp. 36-37.
• Forgues, C. R. & Lee, D.S. (2019, Dec 27). Will Your Clients Be Sued? Big Data Analytics Can Help Predict Lawsuits.Bloomberg Law.
• Forgues, C. R. & Lee, D.S. (2019, Dec 18). Using Big Data Analytics Tools to Predict Litigation Outcomes.New Hampshire Bar News,pp. 1.
• Forgues, C. R. (2019,Mar 20). Supreme Court At-a-Glance.New Hampshire Bar News,pp. 35-37. Reviewing recent decisions of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
• Forgues, C. R. (2018, Mar 21). Supreme Court At-a-Glance.New Hampshire Bar News,pp.41-42. Reviewing recent decisions of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.Forgues, C.R. (2017, July 19).Supreme Court At-a-Glance.New Hampshire Bar News,pp. 39-43.Reviewing recent decisions of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
• Forgues, C.R. (2017,March22).Supreme Court At-a-Glance.New Hampshire Bar News,pp. 42-43.Reviewing recent decisions of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
• Forgues, C.R. (2016, March 16). Supreme Court At-a-Glance.New Hampshire Bar News, pp. 40-43.Reviewing recent decisions of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

REPORTED LEGAL DECISIONS

• State of New Hampshire v. Anthony Johnson, 2004-0082 (Sept. 1, 2006)
• Richard Maynard & a. v. Robert Rice, 2004-0398 (July 28, 2005)
• Appeal of New Hampshire Youth Development Center, 152 N.H. 86 (2005)
• SandraTothillv. The Estate of Warrant Center, Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation v.PhenixMutual Fire Insurance Company & a., 152 N.H 389 (2005)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• The State of NewYork
• The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• The State of NewHampshire
• The Federal District Court for the District of New Hampshire
• United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit