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MSBA Women's Law Section Presents: Strategies for Making the Ask - 2010

Join us again (or for the first time) and help fight the winter blues by sharing a day of education, relaxation, and fun with friends and colleagues. This year's focus will be on the importance of advocating for yourself so that you can take better care of yourself. In addition to our keynote presentation and workshop, a panel of speakers will give presentations on several health-increasing and stress-reducing practices such as acupuncture, guided meditation and Reike, because successful advocating is directly tied to stress level and overall self-esteem.

   Location: Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport
   Date: Friday, February 12, 2010
   Registration Begins: 2/12/2010-7:15 AM.
   Program Adjourns: 2/12/2010-3:30 PM.
   CLE Credits: Regular: 3 Hour(s) Ethic/Prof. Resp.: 1 Hour(s)

Click here to download the program brochure.

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

To register online, please click here.

To download the program brochure and registration form, 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.

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. 5–8, 2010

AUGUSTA—Proponents of a bill to strengthen large-scale animal cruelty laws tell legislative panel stiffer penalties needed to discourage so-called puppy mills
Maine Public Radio (with audio)

AUGUSTA—Judge sentences a Fairfield man to 11 years in prison for sexually abusing three pre-teen girls over a 2-year span
Kennebec Journal (Augusta)

ELLSWORTH–Judge sentences a Winter Harbor man and a Gouldsboro man to 1 year in prison after they plead guilty to destroying a lobster boat by setting it on fire, orders each man to pay $36,000 restitution
Bangor Daily News
WABI-TV (Bangor) (with video)

FARMINGTON—In plea bargain, judge sentences a Wilton man to 4 years in prison for burglary, theft and forgery
Lewiston Sun Journal

NEW YORK—FairPoint finally files its bankruptcy plan
Associated Press

PORTLAND—Law Court upholds Superior Court decision upholding Auburn Planning Board approval of site plans for a hotel and parking garage, rejects competing hotel company’s appeal
Lewiston Sun Journal

ROCKLAND—Friendship man, convicted of murdering his lover and trying to kill her husband, fails to convince judge he had ineffective counsel
Portland Press Herald


Feb. 4, 2010

AUGUSTA—AG considers whether to prosecute an alleged referendum petition fraud case uncovered when the Greene town clerk found all signatures on one petition, asking voters if they wanted the tax reform bill to go to a people's veto referendum, were forged
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting (sidebar: bills being considered to tighten petition rules)

AUGUSTA—Legislative committee approves spending $100,000 for the Maine public advocate to hire an attorney to attend FairPoint’s presentation of its reorganization plan to a bankruptcy court in New York, to be paid for with special assessments on Maine telecommunication companies
Kennebec Journal (Augusta)

PORTLAND—Massachusetts man who killed two people with his high-speed boat on Long Lake in Harrison while drunk applies to serve the remaining half of his 3.5-year prison sentence at home
Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND—Medway man who admitted distributing nearly 300 pounds of marijuana for a St. John Valley man sentenced to 22 months in federal prison, ordered to pay $43,675 in restitution for Social Security payments
Bangor Daily News

SOUTH PARIS—AG to file a court complaint against the Bethel Water District alleging it is violating the terms of the trust governing the district’s watershed land in Newry
Bethel Citizen




"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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