New Maine bill would enlist law students to help close the rural "justice gap"
March 28, 2022
A new bill would help Maine residents living in "rural deserts." Under a three-year pilot program, students at the University of Maine School of Law would still spend the first half of their education on the school’s campus in Portland. But after their first few semesters, two or three students at a time would head to Fort Kent, where they would work under the supervision of a professor in a satellite office of the college’s student legal aid clinic.