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Business Law Institute - 2009 - Live Seminar - Augusta
Sponsored by the Maine State Bar Association’s Business Law Section

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September 25 and 26, 2009 at the Augusta Civic Center

CLE Credits: Friday, earn up to 6.0 CLE including the opportunity to earn 1.0 ethics credit.
Saturday, earn up to 4.50 CLE credits, including the opportunity to earn 1.0 ethics credit.

30 Topics, 58 Sessions

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YouTube Video Contest Winners Announced

The 2009 “Justice for ME” YouTube video contest winners were announced at the MSBA Summer Meeting in Bar Harbor. The “Justice for ME” YouTube video contest asked participants to create a video ....>more

Casemaker 2.1 Live

Casemaker 2.1 is now available. Although it has a different, efficient and modernized look, all of the familiar features and search methods are still available...and then some. Casemaker 2.1 is available from the Casemaker overview page. New information is only being added to Casemaker 2.1. We encourage you to explore Casemaker 2.1 to familiarize yourself with the new features.

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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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Current edition of 'On Your Own' available online

Aug. 26, 2009

ALFRED—Wells woman accused of killing her husband by setting him on fire expected to change her plea to murder and arson charges today
WMTW-TV (Portland)

BANGOR—Acadia National Park restaurant worker files a constitutional rights lawsuit against park rangers who handcuffed and knocked him unconscious—fracturing 4 facial bones—in a scuffle during restaurant workers’ midnight hike
Bangor Daily News

BANGOR—Sangerville woman’s civil assault and battery lawsuit against the town’s former manager moves from Superior Court to U.S. District Court
Bangor Daily News

ELLSWORTH—Reduced clerk office hours next month at Hancock Superior Court and Ellsworth District Court
Judiciary news release

PORTLAND—Although Friday, Sept. 4 is a state shutdown day, Maine state courts will remain open
Judiciary news release

ROCKLAND—November trial scheduled for local man charged with knowing and depraved indifference murder and domestic manslaughter in the death of his 9-week-old daughter
Knox.villagesoup.com

Aug. 25, 2009

AUGUSTA—Senate confirms nomination of Superior Court Justice Joseph Jabar of Waterville to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
(Augusta) Kennebec Journal

AUGUSTA—Waterville man pleads guilty to assaulting his girlfriend and his 21-month-old daughter, sentenced to 9 months in jail; other sentencings
(Augusta) Kennebec Journal

MASHPEE, Mass.—Penobscot Nation member becomes new Mashpee Wampanoag Supreme Court’s first chief justice
Cape Cod Times

WATERVILLE—Renowned defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey urges Rotary Club members to hire ex-prison inmates who complete educational skill-training programs being launched by the Maine State Prison Industries Advisory Council
(Waterville) Morning Sentinel

Aug. 22–24, 2009

AUGUSTA—Maine Civil Legal Services Fund Commission invites submissions for funding determinations for eligible civil legal service providers for 2010 and 2011
Judiciary news release

AUGUSTA—AG Finds deputy sheriffs acted in self-defense when they shot and wounded a man in his Sebago home
State government news release
Portland Press Herald

AUGUSTA—Parents of a Fairfield man severely injured in a vehicle crash after a night of heavy drinking sue bars that served him, the driver and the vehicle owner for $400,000 in medical and rehabilitation costs and other damages
(Waterville) Morning Sentinel

BANGOR—In retrial, jury affirms previous verdict that the town of Millinocket violated state Whistleblower Protection Act by firing its recreation department director; verdict likely to cost the town’s insurors $289,000, her attorney says
Bangor Daily News

BANGOR—A cardiologist and a nurse practitioner file a federal lawsuit against the Machias hospital that fired them, alleging it violated their whistleblower status after they repeatedly spoke out against practices and conditions they believed violated state and federal laws
Bangor Daily News

GARDINER—Federal regulators order a locally based bank to correct operating deficiencies, including insufficient operating capital, high-risk loans and ‘unsafe or unsound practices’
(Waterville) Morning Sentinel

PORTLAND—Judge sentences confessed killer to 10 years in prison for manslaughter in shooting a hitchhiker, enraging victims’ relatives
Portland Press Herald

Aug. 21, 2009

AUGUSTA—Legislature's Judiciary Committee unanimously endorses the nomination of Superior Court Justice Joseph Jabar to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; Senate to vote on the nomination Monday
(Augusta) Kennebec Journal

AUGUSTA—Civil trial underway in Vassalboro’s lawsuit against a property owner the town claims failed to meet requirements for a subdivision road and is illegally selling loam from the property
(Augusta) Kennebec Journal

PORTLAND—Law Court rules in St. Mary's Regional Medical Center v. Bath Iron Works that an employer must pay more generous medical provider fees available under Maine workers compensation law than available under the federal Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act
Business Insurance (New York)

ROCKLAND—Matinicus man, charged with elevated aggravated assault in the shooting of a fellow lobsterman, seeks dismissal of a lawsuit against him, saying he fired his gun in self-defense and to protect his daughter
Knox.villagesoup.com

WEST BATH—Lawsuit progresses in Business and Consumer Court against a Kennebunkport man who defrauded the federal government out of millions of dollars, brought by a Biddeford defense contracting firm he ran and allegedly harmed by diverting profits and trade secrets to a parallel network of York County defense contractors
Keepmecurrent.com (Westbrook)

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