Johnson, Webbert & Young is taking a case to Maine’s highest court to make sure lawyers are not above the law and are held accountable when they miss filing deadlines and cover up their mistakes from their clients. As featured in the Maine Lawyers Review on February 7, 2019 Legal Malpractice Damages – Impossible to Prove? In a…
Read the full article on the Portland Press Herald website here Attorney Valerie Wicks represents The National Fire Adjustment Co., who sued the Maine Bureau of Insurance last year. In its complaint, the company argued that the ban preventing public adjusters from soliciting or offering a contract to a client for 36 hours after a fire or…
Attorney David Webbert authored this opinion article published in the Portland Press Herald on January 4, 2019. Maine Voices: Legislature should condemn LePage’s legacy of racist diatribes Gov. Janet Mills has vowed to chart a more inclusive path, but lawmakers must act as well to promote Maine as a dignified and accepting place. AUGUSTA —…
Attorney David Webbert was quoted in this article from the Portland Press Herald on January 5, 2019. “LePage’s repeated failure to follow the law and attack judicial independence means courts and lawmakers should consider outlining what future governors cannot do,” said attorney David Webbert, who represents former Democratic Speaker Mark Eves in his ongoing lawsuit…
Johnson, Webbert & Young, LLP, is pleased to announce that three of the firm’s lawyers – all of the firm’s partners – were selected for inclusion in the 2019 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, one of the legal profession’s oldest and most respected peer-review publications. Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the…
Jeffrey Neil Young is the first Maine lawyer ever elected to the Board of the largest civil rights organization in the country dedicated to workers’ rights, the National Employment Lawyers Association. He is a partner in the largest employment and civil rights law firm north of Boston. His firm, Johnson, Webbert & Young, LLP, represents…
“Politics is fine in the Legislature, but not for a 100-year-old charitable organization that helps at-risk children,” Webbert said. “The governor crossed a line, and the courts are here to enforce those boundary lines.” “The governor blackmailed a private nonprofit school that serves children at risk because his political opponent got the job,” Eves said…
Governor Paul LePage closed DCF without legislative approval, and has now agreed, under court order, to minimally staff the prison with 5 guards and a minimal number of inmates. Young said “Since the department was able to close DCF in a matter of hours, it should be able to restore the status quo by tomorrow….
A United States District Court Judge ruled on Monday that Angela Agganis, a former T-Mobile customer service representative, will get a jury trial on her claims of sexual harassment. The Court denied T-Mobile’s attempt to have the case dismissed on summary judgment. Agganis is represented by Jeffrey Neil Young, Roberta de Araujo, and Valerie Z….
Young said the LePage administration’s position on the closing of the facility was based on a “fictitious argument.” “This is a complete shutdown of the facility,” Young said. “Pretty clearly, if the commissioner can ‘wind down the operations at the facility’ in one evening in February, there is no reason why that couldn’t equally be…