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Graduating class shows law school’s efforts to recruit rural Maine lawyer and boost diversity

Jonathan Burk is returning home to rural Maine to practice law after his graduation from the University of Maine School of Law on Saturday at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. Burk, 25, is one of 76 students who will earn a degree from Maine’s only law school. He also is one of the few graduates who will work in a part of Maine where lawyers are retiring and closing firms because they can’t find anyone to replace them. His classmate Schadrac Joseph, 33, will work for the U.S.

 

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