The Trump Administration proposed to eliminate the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) and zero out federal funding for civil legal aid.
Click here to read an editorial that ran recently in the Portland Press Herald and Kennebec Journal, reiterating the huge economic impact of legal aid in Maine.
If this draconian cut is implemented, Pine Tree …
Maine Justice Foundation Board President William Robitzek wrote the following Op Ed piece in the 3/29/17 issue of the Portland Press Herald.
Former Maine Justice Foundation Board President, Arnold Macdonald, Esq., also wrote an article that ran in the April 2017 Maine Lawyers Review, on the impact of civil legal aid in Maine. Click the …
A new study shows services provided by six core legal aid providers to low-income individuals and households in Maine have a positive economic impact on the State.
The providers include the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Maine School of Law, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, Legal Services for the Elderly, Maine Equal Justice …
The Maine Justice Foundation is very pleased to announce that Mathew (Matt) Scease of Hallowell, Maine is our new Development Director.
A 1993 magna cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College, Matt has more than 15 years of development experience. For the past 10 years, he served as Associate Director of Philanthropy (formerly Major Gifts Director) …
Portland, ME. December 7, 2016 — The Maine Justice Foundation (MJF) launched its new LGBT Justice Fund at an event held at Holiday Inn by the Bay, and nearly 100 supporters and advocates attended. The fund is designated solely to ensure that vulnerable members of the LGBT community in Maine have access to civil legal …
Finding Legal Services for the LGBT Community Is Getting a Little Easier!
Please join Congressman and Gay Rights Advocate Barney
Frank and the Maine Justice Foundation (MJF) to launch MJF’s
New LGBT Justice Fund, which will provide funding for
nonprofit organizations that address the civil legal aid needs
of low-income and vulnerable LGBT people.
WHEN: …