New online portal offers free legal counsel to Mainers unable to afford it

"The Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project on Tuesday unveiled an online portal, or virtual clinic, offering free legal counsel to Mainers otherwise unable to afford it or get to real clinics from remote rural areas.

Free Legal Answers, as the service is known, is a project of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service.

Maine's version is being called Free Legal Answers Maine, or FLAME..."

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