A group of employment lawyers is seeking a federal investigation of the governor of Maine, citing news reports that he and other officials have pressured hearing officers to rule for…
Maine’s top court has upheld the dismissal of 46 charges against a businessman accused of taping a prostitute’s sexual encounters, holding that the johns have no reasonable expectation of privacy…
Ruling on a protest by the owner of a local newspaper, Maine’s top court on Thursday afternoon said a judge must hold jury selection sessions in open court, even if…
A former top drug prosecutor for the Maine Attorney General’s office was arrested in New Mexico on Sunday, 17 days after he cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet.
A former assistant attorney general in Maine cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and disappeared last week after a federal appeals court upheld his conviction on seven…
A 10-year-old girl who has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 3-month-old baby may be the youngest child to face a manslaughter case in Maine history and…
Parsing a receivership order (PDF) after the fact, Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court has OK’d a legal fees award of nearly $25,000 to Verrill Dana, which provided a…
A high-profile Maine criminal defense lawyer is himself charged with two misdemeanor counts of terrorizing after police say he called two elementary schools on a cellphone and made bomb threats…
Lawyers who are assigned to represent criminal defendants in Maine won’t be paid during the month of June because the Indigent Legal Defense Commission has run out of money.
A recent ethics opinion by Maine’s top court offers guidance on what to do—and not to do—when faced with a presumably unusual problem: An attorney is convinced that a former…
Updated: Maine’s highest court has ruled that six partners at Verrill Dana violated ethics rules by failing to have procedures in place to monitor a lawyer after questions arose about…
