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Lewiston law firm adds attorney

LEWISTON — Mary Morrissey has joined the law firm of Skelton Taintor & Abbott as an associate attorney. Morrissey, who graduated from the University of Maine School of Law this year, was admitted to practice in all Maine state courts Nov. 27. She intends to focus on family law, employment law and general litigation. “Mary’s […]

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Against Their Will: Maine's probate courts lack a method to detect fraud. Some other states have robust audit systems. | News

Peter and Mary Ann Brickfield split their time between Washington, D.C., and Islesboro, an affluent island community off the coast of Maine.

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Against Their Will: Maine's probate courts lack a method to detect fraud

Peter and Mary Ann Brickfield split their time between Washington, D.C., and Islesboro, an affluent island community off the coast of Maine. By their late 60s, they had given up high-powered careers as a lawyer and the chief of the Neurocytology...

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Maine's probate courts lack a method to detect fraud

Maine's probate courts do not have investigators or accountants to track the finances of vulnerable adults to protect them from fraud.

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Question 8 is the wrong solution to a real problem

"By getting rid of the guardianship language, there is no denying that some Mainers who can not reason through a voting decision will be able to vote."

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Chief justice pleads for help from legal community to represent indigent clients

Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill said in a letter to seven large law firms that the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services is considering rule changes for lawyers willing to take child custody appeals.

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Chief justice pleads for help from legal community to represent indigent clients

Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill said in a letter to seven large law firms that the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services is considering rule changes for lawyers willing to take child custody appeals.

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State budget gives a one-time boost to a program that provides legal aid to poor Mainers in civil cases

But the initiative did not get the large increase in annual support called for in the bill that the Legislature passed.

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State budget gives one-time boost to program that gives poor Mainers legal aid in civil cases

But the initiative did not get the large increase in annual support called for in the bill that the Legislature passed.

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