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…
After hearing on June 13, 2007 that a secretary had blown the whistle on a longtime Verrill Dana senior partner, then-managing partner David Warren asked to see check copies, bank…
After a secretary blew the whistle on her boss, John Duncan, other lawyers at a prominent Maine firm looked into the matter, eventually determined that the longtime senior lawyer and…
Updated: A former client who claims that his law firm worked against his interests in a battle with his brother for control of the now-shuttered Northern Mattress and Furniture Co.…
Following a second thumbs-down by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on a proposal that it should agree prospectively to allow graduates of a planned law school at…
Abandoning his earlier opposition, the governor of Maine today immediately signed new legislation allowing same-sex couples there the legal right to marry.
The drummer for Fleetwood Mac, Michael “Mick” Fleetwood, is among a group suing its onetime attorney in Maine, claiming the lawyer and his firm left them on the hook for…
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