Here is a great article from Mainebiz: Maine Law students gear up for busy summer as Rural Practice Fellows. A three-year Rural Pilot Program launched last year by Maine Law with funding from the Maine Justice Foundation.
PHOTO / TIM GREENWAY. Ryan Rutledge, left, and Cameron Goodwin, both students at the University of Maine
The Legislature declared April 4, 2018 to be “Access to Justice Day” at the Maine Legislature.
The event included displays and presentations by Maine’s civil legal services providers in the Hall of Flags (and refreshments provided by the Maine Justice Foundation!). Many legislators stopped by to hear about the providers’ efforts to achieve full access …
The Maine Justice Foundation, at a breakfast event on March 5th 2018, honored two Portland attorneys who exemplify the foundation’s mission to ensure that all Maine people have access to the justice system. Maine’s U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr. presented the Howard H. Dana, Jr. Award to Nan Heald of Pine Tree Legal Assistance …
Nearly 200,000 people face a choice of leaving the U.S. or being deported after Sept. 9, 2019.
From The Portland Press Herald, staff writer, NOEL K. GALLAGHER.
A new program puts aspiring young lawyers in country practices in hopes of increasing access to justice in underserved areas. Click here to read more.…
By Kate Irish Collins on July 31, 2017, read the original Forecaster article here.
PORTLAND — According to a recent study, lawyers suffer from substance abuse, anxiety and depression at almost double the rate of the general population, which jeopardizes more than their own health and welfare.
That’s why it’s so important to offer …
The following article ran in Maine Voices Portland Press Herald on 6/21/17.
The independent state agency is out of money, and it’s the poor of Maine who will ultimately suffer. BY WILLIAM ROBITZEK,* SPECIAL TO THE PRESS HERALD
BRUNSWICK — Anyone who can’t afford a lawyer gets one appointed for them, right? No, not right.…
Maine Civil Legal Services Fund Commission:
Announcement of Applications for 2018 and 2019 and Notice of Public Meeting.
The Maine Civil Legal Services Fund Commission will make funding determinations for eligible civil legal service providers for 2018 and 2019 on the basis of written applications. The Application Packet is available on any of the following …
The following article ran in Maine Voices in the Maine Sunday Telegram on 6/4/17.
The Maine Justice Foundation aims to help protect those who face additional barriers, even within systems to help them. BY ARNIE MACDONALD, SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAM
The motto “Equal Justice for All” engraved on our Supreme Court building is fundamental to
Last Tuesday Maine’s champions for civil legal aid celebrated the contributions of Bill Harwood, the 2017 honoree at the annual Muskie Access to Justice Dinner. Bill has in the course of a 38-year legal practice represented hundreds of low-income Mainers pro bono, helped put in place key recommendations of Senator Muskie’s Commission on Legal Needs, …