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PORTLAND — The James M. Roux Fellow for 2018 has been awarded to Scott Dolan, of South Portland.
Dedicated funding from the Maine Justice Foundation from the fund created in memory of Lewiston native Roux will provide support for Dolan, a student at the University of Maine School of Law, while he works as a legal intern at the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic for the summer.
Arnie Macdonald and Liza Moore, of Freeportm created the James M. Roux Fund at the Maine Justice Foundation to honor Roux (Maine Law ’84). Roux, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack, grew up in Lewiston and served in the U.S. Army as judge advocate general with the 82nd Airborne Division.
In private practice, he became a trial lawyer, but later shifted his focus to plaintiff work, championing underdogs who might not otherwise be heard.
He also developed an interest in the plight of the Nepalese Sherpa people after his treks to Mount Everest Base Camp and was headed to Southeast Asia when he died.
Dolan covered courts and legal affairs as a newspaper reporter and was inspired to redirect his career so he could help the Mainers he so often wrote about. He lives in South Portland with his wife and children.
A program of the University of Maine School of Law, the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic provides an opportunity for law students to provide legal assistance, under close faculty supervision, to low-income Maine residents with a variety of civil, juvenile, administrative, immigration, and criminal matters, primarily in Cumberland, York, Androscoggin, and Sagadahoc counties. The Maine Justice Foundation’s James M. Roux Fund supports this Summer Intern Program.
Macdonald and Moore also were inspired to honor the passion, commitment, and engagement of Jim’s son Jamie. “We make this gift in Jim’s memory but also out of our love and pride in his son,” they said. “In their honor we want to help Maine’s aspiring lawyers not only to have excellent technical skills but (also) to keep a watchful eye on the underdogs, underprivileged and underserved, where the civil rights so important to our society may first start to erode.”
For more information, contact Mathew Scease at the Maine Justice Foundation, 207-622-3477, or visit the foundation online at www.justicemaine.org.
PHOTO: Scott Dolan (Submitted photo)
