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• Probate a Will/Settle an Estate in Maine
  
  
• Prevent or Fix an Access, Trespass or Property Ownership Problem in Maine
  
  
• Maine Commercial Real Estate Forecast for 2010
  
  
• Perkins Thompson congratulates its former law partner, U.S. District Judge for the District of Maine, D. Brock Hornby, for being awarded the prestigious national Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. In announcing the award, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said that Judge Hornby's "scholarship and dedication","dignity and decency" and "splendid judicial demeanor" made him "a model for all judges". During Judge Hornby's time here at Perkins Thompson, he was, for all these same reasons, a model for our attorneys, and we are proud that his excellence in the law is nationally recognized.
  
  
• Doug Carr has been re-elected President of the Board of Directors of the Maine Cancer Foundation for the year 2009-2010
  
  
• Andy Cadot was recently recognized by the Freeport Conservation Trust for his 32 years of service as its Clerk, and for his leadership in conservation. Andy was also recognized by the Greater Portland Habitat for Humanity, which awarded him its "Golden Hammer" award in honor of his exceptional volunteer efforts in support of Habitat's mission.
  
  
• Jim Katsiaficas recently won a land use case on behalf of the Town of Westport before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, in the case of Nergaard v. Town of Westport Island, 2009 ME 56, regarding a dispute about the Town's boat launch.
  » 2009 ME 56 Nergaard v. Town of Westport Island
  
  
• Jim Katsiaficas helped draft a Solid Waste Facilities Ordinance for the City of Old Town to regulate a State-owned Landfill, developed in the course of an extended public participatory process, which Ordinance the City enacted in June, 2009.
  
  
• John Ciraldo has recently been selected by the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Maine to be the Portland representative on the newly created Criminal Justice Act ("CJA") Panel Committee.