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The Information Explosion: What Lawyers Need to Know About the New Internet
by Lewis Eisen

   Date: March 26, 2010
   Location: Augusta Civic Center, Augusta
   CLE Credits: 3.0
   Includes 1 Hour Ethic/Prof. Resp.
   Registration Begins: 8:45 AM .
   Program Adjourns: 12:45 PM

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You can also complete and fax your registration form to 207-623-0083 or call CLE staff at 1-877-622-7554.

The Information Explosion: What Lawyers Need to Know About the New Internet
- Live Webcast

   Date: March 26, 2010
   CLE Credits: 3.0
   Includes 1 Hour Ethic/Prof. Resp.
   Registration Begins: 8:45 AM .
   Program Adjourns: 12:45 PM

To register online, please click here.

You can also complete and fax your registration form to 207-623-0083 or call CLE staff at 1-877-622-7554.

To download the program brochure and registration form, please click here.

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The 2009 edition of ‘On Your Own’ is here!

The 2009 edition of the Maine State Bar Association’s popular “On Your Own,” our free booklet that helps prepare young people for some of the legal complexities of adulthood, is available for download now by clicking HERE.

“On Your Own” has been printed and published for more than a quarter century, primarily for distribution through Maine high schools to graduating seniors.

The 2009 edition, essentially a downloadable PDF, has several advantages over previous versions. In addition to immediate and unlimited availability to everyone who wants a copy, the PDF version has numerous website links and cross-references “hot” links. This means readers can instantly read the additional information available at these links, both within “On Your Own” and on the World Wide Web.

In past years, “On Your Own” was published as a 5.5 x 8.5-inch booklet. The 2009 edition, however, has been redesigned so that downloads may be printed easily on standard letter-size paper.

Maine high schools and libraries will soon receive the 2009 “On Your Own” on compact discs, each with an accompanying printed version for reference purposes, for curriculum and onsite reading use.

The booklet’s September release makes it more useful to teachers, guidance counselors and others who use “On Your Own” in educational programs.

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.

1-800-860-1460

2009 edition of 'On Your Own' available online

Feb. 25, 2010

AUGUSTA—Kennebec County DA joins an investigation into allegations of animal cruelty and neglect at a horse farm in Clinton; Animal Welfare Advisory Council convenes emergency meeting on the issue
Maine Public Radio (with audio)

AUGUSTA—Judge sentences Randolph man to 6 years in prison for sexually molesting an 8-year-old girl, says ‘I am concerned about the likelihood for reoffending and the prospects for rehabilitation’
Kennebec Journal (Augusta)

BANGOR—Federal judge sentences a Norridgewock teenager to 45 months in prison for helping a Skowhegan man rob a Benton firearms dealer
Morning Sentinel (Waterville)

BANGOR—Famous criminal defense lawyer urges area business leaders to hire ex-convicts through an early-release employment program at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham
Bangor Daily News
WABI-TV (Bangor) (with video)

BANGOR—Mars Hill woman, charged in state court with gross sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a minor, pleads guilty in federal court to producing child pornography
Bangor Daily News

FARMINGTON—Jury decides a Livermore Falls health center and a nurse practitioner there did not commit medical negligence in the death of a 6-year-old Weld boy
Lewiston Sun Journal

PORTLAND—Family of a Raymond teenager who died in a cabin fire near Newry sue its owner, alleging he failed to maintain a safe dwelling
Portland Press Herald

ROCKPORT—Attorney for Dennis Dechaine says 2 renowned forensic pathologists have provided opinions that could help Dechaine get a new trial in the murder of a 12-year-old girl more than 2 decades ago, asserting that she probably died after the former Bowdoinham farmer was taken into custody
Portland Press Herald
Bangor Daily News

Feb. 24, 2010

AUGUSTA—While the state's animal welfare program investigates a Clinton horse farm, the Animal Welfare Advisory Council plans a hearing today in response to complaints of poor conditions of horses at the farm from Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals attorney and others
Bangor Daily News

BANGOR—State sues U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in federal court to overturn a decision that disallows nearly $30 million in federal case management funds for children in Maine’s Medicaid program
Bangor Daily News

BANGOR—AG refuses to negotiate living conditions and benefits for 3 Maine men with cerebral palsy, so their federal lawsuit heads to trial
Maine Public Radio (with audio)

FARMINGTON—New York pediatric surgeon tells jurors in a medical malpractice case against a Livermore Falls family health center that a 6-year-old Weld boy would not have died if he had been taken to a hospital for treatment
Lewiston Sun Journal

ROCKLAND—Owls Head fisherman, shot on Matinicus Island last July, pleads guilty to trespassing on the accused shooter’s lobster boat shortly before being wounded
Bangor Daily News

Feb. 23, 2010

AUGUSTA—AG finds 2 Lewiston police officers justified when they shot and wounded a woman who had tried to run over one of them with a car
Associated Press

ELLSWORTH—Judge sentences Swan’s Island fisherman to 6 months in jail following guilty plea to stealing lobsters valued at more than $2,000 from a seafood dealer
Bangor Daily News

FARMINGTON—Judge sentences a Skowhegan man to 9 months in jail following his guilty plea to aggravated trespassing and misdemeanor assault, and defers sentencing of a Madison woman who pleaded no contest to aggravated trespassing at the Farmington home of her son's father, in connection with the child’s abduction by the 2 defendants
Lewiston Sun Journal

FARMINGTON—Jury hears opening statements in a malpractice lawsuit against a Livermore Falls family health center alleging professional negligence involving the death of a 6-year-old Weld boy
Lewiston Sun Journal

PORTLAND—Judge sentences apologetic local man to 17 years in prison for shooting another man outside a Portland nightclub, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down
Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND—Eight Brazilians from Massachusetts sentenced to 4 months, already served, for federal visa fraud after admitting they tried to get Maine driver’s licenses or identity cards, and now face deportation
Associated Press

SOUTH PARIS—Judge sentences Mexico man to 2 weeks in jail following guilty plea to sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl, a misdemeanor
Lewiston Sun Journal

SOUTH PARIS—Judge sentences Paris woman to 10 days in jail after she pleads guilty to stealing from a Paris store and assaulting employees who tried to stop her
Lewiston Sun Journal

Feb. 19–22, 2010

AUGUSTA—Judge sends Belgrade woman to prison for 6 years for drunken vehicular manslaughter
Morning Sentinel (Waterville)

BANGOR—Judge awards former recreation director $61,232 in back pay after jurors find the town violated the state’s Whistleblower Protection Act by firing her
Bangor Daily News

PORTLAND—Law Court rejects arguments that a trial judge was biased, upholds former Canaan man’s murder conviction
Morning Sentinel (Waterville)

PORTLAND—U.S. attorney agrees to ‘divert’ the case of a soldier scheduled for a 2nd tour of duty in Afghanistan while awaiting trial on cocaine trafficking charges
Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND—Attorney for a Westbrook woman charged in an adoption scam tells a judge his client, who allegedly accepted payments from two couples but gave her baby to a third, hopes to reach a plea agreement with prosecutors
Portland Press Herald

SKOWHEGAN—Jury convicts Madison man of aggravated assault against his infant son, who suffered permanent brain damage
Morning Sentinel (Waterville)

Feb. 18, 2010

BANGOR—Brewer teenager, arrested in a sting by local police and a federal Drug Enforcement Agency task force, pleads guilty in federal court to possessing oxycodone with intent to distribute it
Bangor Daily News

PORTLAND—All 12 defendants in a major federal marijuana trafficking case agree to plead guilty to participation in bringing more than a ton from Connecticut to Maine; defendants include a Brunswick man
Portland Press Herald
Brunswick Times Record

"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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