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, …
Bar Fellows Reception June 22, 2017
The Board of the Maine Justice Foundation invites all Bar Fellows to a special reception at the Summer Conference of the Maine State Bar Association.
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres 5:00PM – 6:00PM, Thursday, June 22, at Sugarloaf Mountain, Carrabassett Valley; Narrow Gauge room on the 2nd level of the main lodge.
Welcoming remarks by …
Coffin Family Law Fellowship Applications Are Open:
The Coffin Family Law Fellowship provides legal representation in family law matters to clients who have qualified for pro bono assistance through the Volunteer Lawyers Project. Named after Frank M. Coffin, Senior Judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the Project supports attorneys based in the Portland, Maine offices of Pine Tree Legal Assistance. …
Civil Legal Aid in Danger
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 …
Trump plan to gut civil legal aid would have devastating impact on Mainers
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 …
Economic Impact of Civil Legal Aid Services in Maine
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 …
Legal Services Corporation Funding At Risk
The Maine Justice Foundation has learned from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the American Bar Association that there is a hit list of programs that President Trump might eliminate to trim domestic spending, including the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). Maine’s recipient of LSC funds is Pine Tree Legal Assistance.
In 2016, 24% …
Welcome to our new Development Director!
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) …
Congressman and Gay Rights Advocate Barney Frank & Maine Justice Foundation Launched New LGBT Justice Fund
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 …
Justice for all LGBT Mainers? Not yet…
But with your help, we can make it happen for LGBT people.
Imagine having your house, your health benefits or even your children taken away. You feel helpless. You don’t know what to do or where to turn for help.
Now imagine you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Your situation just became more difficult …