McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
On this appeal by a practicing Maine lawyer, we reject his attack on the constitutionality of the requirement of the Maine Bar Rules that he submit to binding arbitration of a dispute with his client over the lawyer's fee.
The Supreme Judicial Court promulgated the Maine Bar Rules in 1978. Rule 9 establishes a mechanism for binding arbitration of attorney-client fee disputes under the jurisdiction of the Board of Overseers of the Bar...
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