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Important Information about ‘On Your Own’

For more than a quarter century, the Maine State Bar Association has published annual revisions each spring of “On Your Own,” our popular — and free — booklet that helps prepare young people for some of the legal complexities of adulthood. >> more

LRIS is “The Right Call” When You Need a Lawyer

The Right Call for the Right Lawyer is the slogan trademarked by the American Bar Association for use by lawyer referral services meeting the ABA’s standards of professional experience criteria, accountability, and public service. This summer, the Lawyer Referral and Information Service of the Maine State Bar Association became one of fewer than 70 referral services nationwide authorized to use this slogan and the ABA seal of approval.

As an impartial not-for-profit professional and public service, the Lawyer Referral & Information Service is, more clearly now than ever, the most effective access point for members of the public looking for assistance with legal issues.

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Currnt edition of 'On Your Own' available online

July 2, 2009

AUGUSTA—Human Rights Commission faces increasing number of cases involving gender identity and restroom access issues
Knox.VillageSoup.com

BIDDEFORD—Local man arraigned on murders of two brothers shot to death outside his home also charged last spring with threatening to kill his attorney and his ex-girlfriend
Portland Press Herald
WCSH-TV (Portland) (with video)
KeepMeCurrent.com (Westbrook)

MILBRIDGE—Town’s 6-month building moratorium on multi-family housing blocks farmworkers’ housing project proposed by a Latino social services group, which responds with discrimination lawsuit
Maine Public Radio (with audio)

PORTLAND—Supreme Judicial Court accepting letters of interest for the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services
State government news release

YORK—Attorney for a Walgreens project argues against proposed planning board ordinance that would ban more pharmacies on Route 1, which already has 2
Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald

July 1, 2009

AUGUSTA—State Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability finds state prison culture of intimidation and retaliation by administrators
Maine Public Radio (with audio)

AUGUSTA—Human Rights Commission rules that the Orono School Department discriminated against a transgender child by denying her access to the girls’ bathroom
Bangor Daily News
WCSH-TV (Portland) (with video)

AUGUSTA—State petitions court to put Machias hospital into receivership after federal government declares it no longer eligible for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements
Bangor Daily News

BANGOR—New Hampshire distributor for a St. David man serving a life sentence for running a marijuana smuggling ring sentenced to 3 months in federal prison after pleading guilty
Bangor Daily News

June 30, 2009

AUGUSTA—Baldacci signs a bill raising the legal bar for appointing a guardian, such as for someone with developmental disabilities or an elderly person
Maine government news release
Maine Public Radio (with audio)

BAR HARBOR—Oscar winner urges civic responsibility in Bar Harbor talk to Maine lawyers
Bar Harbor Times

FARMINGTON—Deputy sheriff who negotiated an OUI charge to a plea to a charge of driving to endanger signs consent agreement allowing him to continue law enforcement work
Lewiston Sun Journal

PORTLAND—Maine's 4 juvenile drug court close their doors Wednesday as state funding runs out for the $388,000-a-year program
Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND—Ugandan accused of lending a fellow countryman his identity to get a job sentenced to 25 months in federal prison for aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft
Associated Press
KeepMeCurrent.com (Westbrook)

PORTLAND—Brunswick man pleads guilty to possessing child pornography found on a laptop computer he had sold
Associated Press

June 26–29, 2009

AUBURN—Law Court judge's abilities, integrity praised as he prepares to step down
Portland Press Herald

AUGUSTA—AG finds Biddeford police officer legally justified in shooting and killing Biddeford woman who wrote a suicide note before pointing a pellet gun that resembled a semiautomatic pistol at him
Portland Press Herald
KeepMeCurrent.com (Westbrook)
State government news release

AUGUSTA—Local man sentenced to 10 days in jail following tax evasion conviction, ordered to pay $13,567 restitution
(Augusta) Kennebec Journal

BANGOR—Local woman convicted of stealing a Coast Guard admiral’s identity sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in federal prison, ordered pay $3,600 fine and $5,000 restitution
Bangor Daily News

BAR HARBOR—Actor Richard Dreyfuss tells Maine lawyers at MSBA summer meeting civics should be school priority
Bangor Daily News
Associated Press

BELFAST—Searsport man accused of holding a Stockton Springs elementary school 5th-grade class hostage wins court approval to act as his own attorney in his trial on 22 counts of kidnapping, 12 counts of criminal restraint with a dangerous weapon, 6 counts of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, 1 count of burglary
Bangor Daily News

PORTLAND—City may owe millions to ferry line; transit district asks a federal agency to referee disputes over terminal and parking garage finances
Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND—Boston street gang member sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison for trafficking guns and cocaine between Boston and Maine; North Yarmouth woman who used her home as distribution center and 3 helpers await sentencing
Portland Press Herald

June 25, 2009

FARMINGTON—Parents of another victim of Fayette murderer welcome his conviction
(Augusta) Kennebec Journal

PORTLAND—University of Maine System's first student trustee sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to importing hundreds of pounds of marijuana from Canada and selling it in northern Maine for at least 6 years
Portland Press Herald
Bangor Daily News

WATERBORO—New state law that establishes boundaries for convicted sex offenders overturns stricter ordinances in Lyman and Waterboro, infuriating local officials
KeepMeCurrent.com (Westbrook)

"On Your Own," subtitled "A short guide to your legal rights and responsibilities as an adult," is available for download here as a PDF document.

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