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Foundation CEO Bruce Blackwell to receive 2016 Tobias Simon Pro Bono Award
Florida Bar news release by Mark Homeister Attorney Bruce B. Blackwell of Winter Park, a founding partner of King, Blackwell, Zehnder & Wermuth, P.A., in Orlando and now CEO/executive director of The Florida Bar Foundation, is the recipient of the 2016 Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award, the highest statewide
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Foundation seeks nominations for Jane Elizabeth Curran Distinguished Service Award
The Florida Bar Foundation will be accepting nominations for the Jane Elizabeth Curran Distinguished Service Award until March 1. The award is named in honor of The Florida Bar Foundation’s first executive director, who, over her 32-year career, was responsible for implementing the nation’s first Interest on Trust Accounts
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Foundation to benefit from increase in federal funds rate
The Florida Bar Foundation received some long-awaited good news Dec. 16 when the Federal Reserve announced it would raise the federal funds rate to between 0.25 and 0.5 percent. “This action marks the end of an extraordinary seven-year period during which the federal funds rate was held near zero to
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Legal services solutions designed and tested at Bar Foundation’s Legal Aid Summit
You have just received notice that you are about to be evicted, and you have no idea of your legal options, but you heard on the radio that legal help is available at your local community center. While there is no lawyer on site, a law student volunteer at
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