113 ABA Journal Maine articles.
Maine has adopted an ABA model rule that bars discrimination and harassment by lawyers.
Maine is the second state to adopt Rule 8.4(g) of the ABA Model Rules of Professional…
Jun 13, 2019 11:39 AM CDT
Feb 8, 2019 6:30 AM CST
The FBI has asked Google for location data on anyone close in time and location to robberies in Virginia and Maine.
The FBI’s “reverse location” orders could ensnare anyone who…
Oct 25, 2018 8:30 AM CDT
Sep 15, 2017 3:35 PM CDT
Maine’s highest court has ruled against a woman seeking guardianship of her grandchild who filed a would-be class action against a part-time probate judge accused of slowing his docket after…
Jul 28, 2017 7:00 AM CDT
A court security officer in Augusta, Maine, has been placed on paid leave pending an internal investigation into allegations that he took a cellphone photo of a defense lawyer’s notes…
Mar 3, 2017 12:00 PM CST
A Maine lawyer accused of sexting a client he was appointed to represent in several criminal cases has received an interim suspension while a disciplinary case is pending against him.
…Aug 4, 2016 8:00 AM CDT
Maine’s top court has refused to overturn a murder conviction in a case where the prosecutor admitted he likely tried to annoy the defense lawyer by feigning sleep during his…
Feb 4, 2016 7:47 AM CST
A former Maine lobsterman has sued his landlord, after shooting an intruder at his government-subsidized Rockland apartment earlier this year and being told he must give up his gun or…
Nov 18, 2015 1:35 PM CST
A successful challenge of a panhandling law by the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine will cost the city of Portland $175,000 in legal expenses, in addition to the cost…
Nov 4, 2015 4:50 PM CST
A former child-custody litigant is accused of posing as an elderly man and using a cane with a built-in shocking device last Thursday to assault a Maine lawyer involved in…
Oct 14, 2015 7:23 AM CDT
A lawyer who blamed destroyed computer files for errors in a first brief and the pressures of solo practice for errors in the second is not getting a third chance.
…Sep 24, 2015 9:47 AM CDT
Joshua Nisbet didn’t want to represent himself in a Maine robbery trial.
But a state court judge said he had to do so because he couldn’t get along with the…
Sep 17, 2015 5:50 AM CDT
Maine Gov. Paul LePage will implement 65 laws he intended to block after the state’s top court ruled against his veto views in an advisory opinion, according to a spokeswoman.
…Aug 7, 2015 8:15 AM CDT
Nineteen bills may become law in Maine despite opposition by Republican Gov. Paul LePage because he botched an attempt at a pocket veto, according to some Democrats and the…
Jul 9, 2015 11:38 AM CDT
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