104 ABA Journal Maine articles.
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
Nearly 20 years after he agreed to represent a U.S. military veteran in a disability case, a Maine lawyer has gotten a definitive answer about his 20-percent contingent attorney fee.
…Jun 3, 2015 4:25 PM CDT
A free barbecue brush that came with a new grill was no bargain, a Maine woman contends.
In a January lawsuit filed in Maine state court that has since…
Feb 24, 2015 4:30 PM CST
A county court judge in Maine, hearing a domestic assault case against a prominent local lawyer, at the outset of the trial Monday ordered reporters not to publish any of…
Jan 7, 2015 5:35 PM CST
A former top drug prosecutor in Maine was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 16 years in prison for possessing child pornography and fleeing the state after an adverse appellate ruling…
Dec 18, 2014 12:02 PM CST
Although technically not a merger, an agreement by Verrill Dana to acquire the employees of a Connecticut-based law firm effectively is one, says managing partner K.C. Jones.
And when the…
Dec 2, 2014 3:00 PM CST
A Maine judge has rebuffed state health officials and ruled that nurse Kaci Hickox shows no symptoms of Ebola and thus can move about freely in public.
Fort Kent Circuit…
Oct 31, 2014 3:00 PM CDT
Maine nurse Kaci Hickox doesn’t have Ebola and she won’t follow a quarantine imposed by her home state, one of her lawyers said Tuesday night.
Lawyer Steven Hyman told
A Maine attorney is facing a felony child-pornography possession charge after state police allegedly found sexual images of children under the age of 12 on a laptop and an external…
Aug 28, 2014 2:25 PM CDT
Busted in June for drunken driving and driving without a license, a Maine teenager was ready to make a fashion statement by the time he began a two-day jail sentence…
Aug 20, 2014 10:45 AM CDT
