In the Media

Read the article in the Bangor Daily News on the proposed sale of Maine’s largest power plant. NextEra’s decision to sell Wyman Station and the Cape Gas unit is not surprising, according to Jeffrey Thaler, a visiting professor of energy policy, law and ethics at the University of Maine.Thaler, who is a Yarmouth resident, said Wyman Station only ran on a few especially cold days last winter.

“People don’t realize how big the plant is in terms of number of megawatts because it has not operated at full potential for so long,” Thaler said.

Click here to read the article in the Portland Press Herald, Oct. 26, 2012. ”It’s the modern version of being put in the public stocks,” said Melvyn Zarr, a law professor at the University of Maine School of Law. “The Pilgrims would have recognized this.”

Click here to read the article in the Bangor Daily News, Oct. 10, 2012. Five years ago, Ali Farid was in his native Iraq living like an American soldier. He slept on same base, ate the same food and wore the same uniform they did. Today, he is one of three international students in a new master’s degree program at the University of Maine School of Law.

Click here to read the article in the Bangor Daily News, Sept. 11, 2012. The University of Maine School of Law will hold its largest reunion of graduates Friday and Saturday to coincide with the school’s 50th anniversary.

When attorney Nicole Bradick cut her work hours to care for her two children, she quickly became a therapist of sorts for other moms who wanted advice on how to scale back their legal workloads. “I gained a reputation for someone who was in this situation. I became a sounding board for mom lawyers in Maine,” Bradick said. Click here to read the article in the Portland Press Herald, June 11, 2012.

Click here to read the article published by Maine Today Media, May 25, 2012. Maine Attorney General Bill Schneider has an impressive resume: champion rifle shooter, West Point graduate, U.S. Army Green Beret, drug prosecutor, state legislator, anti-terrorism coordinator, alpaca farmer. What often impresses people more is how he has overcome an accident that broke his back and left him in a wheelchair 27 years ago.

Story about Vendean Vafiades (Maine Law ’85) joining Maine Law as
Director of Advancement and External Affairs. Bangor Daily News, May 22, 2012

Click here to read the article in the Bangor Daily News, May 20, 2012. Meghan Higgins was thinking about applying to law school 3½ years ago during the fall semester of her senior year at Boston College when her father called. He told her the LSAT, or Law School Admission Test, was being offered at the University of Maine on the upcoming weekend. “He told me if I came up and took it, he’d pay the fee,” Higgins, 25, of Eddington said last week. “So, I did. Then, I only applied to one law school.”

Click here to listen to the interview on Maine Public Broadcasting Network, May 7, 2012. Maine Law Prof. Dmitry Bam was interviewed on Maine Public Radio about gridlock in the nomination process for federal judges.