A 10-year-old girl who has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 3-month-old baby may be the youngest child to face a manslaughter case in Maine history and…
Parsing a receivership order (PDF) after the fact, Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court has OK’d a legal fees award of nearly $25,000 to Verrill Dana, which provided a…
A high-profile Maine criminal defense lawyer is himself charged with two misdemeanor counts of terrorizing after police say he called two elementary schools on a cellphone and made bomb threats…
Lawyers who are assigned to represent criminal defendants in Maine won’t be paid during the month of June because the Indigent Legal Defense Commission has run out of money.
A recent ethics opinion by Maine’s top court offers guidance on what to do—and not to do—when faced with a presumably unusual problem: An attorney is convinced that a former…
Updated: Maine’s highest court has ruled that six partners at Verrill Dana violated ethics rules by failing to have procedures in place to monitor a lawyer after questions arose about…
Some $43 million was stolen in conventional bricks-and-mortar robberies, heists and stickups of U.S. banks last year. Meanwhile, cybercrooks stole hundreds of millions in what is being called a national…
It’s less convenient. But a business in Maine that lost $345,000 in 2009 when cyber crooks tried to siphon well over half a million from its online account has now…
As state lawmakers debate whether food such as raw milk can safely be sold to informed consumers, the residents of a Maine community have seized the day and recognized a…
A former assistant state attorney general who at one time was the top drug prosecutor in Maine was sentenced today to a 16-year federal prison term in a child pornography…
A judge in Maine has upheld a jury’s verdict of $7.3 million for emotional distress to a former client who said the Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson law firm worked…
Tried on ethics charges in an attorney disciplinary case because they allegedly didn’t act quickly enough to investigate a then-partner’s theft of some $300,000 from clients and the firm and…
In an ongoing legal ethics trial of six attorneys from a prominent Maine law firm, a former secretary there has now given her account of what was said after she…
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