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Ft. Lauderdale attorney Juliette E. Lippman to take office as president of The Florida Bar Foundation
Ft. Lauderdale attorney Juliette E. Lippman will take office July 1, 2018, as president of The Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide charitable organization whose mission is to provide greater access to justice. A partner with Birnbaum, Lippman & Gregoire, PLLC, Lippman is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator.
Continue readingMessage from the President – Spring 2018
If you are reading this newsletter, then you are a friend of The Florida Bar Foundation and I would like to thank you for your ongoing commitment to promoting access to justice in Florida. It is only through the collaborative support of partners like you that we are able to
Continue readingEJW Fellow creates framework for pro bono attorneys to help immigrants
by Nancy Kinnally Krystin Montersil, a 2017-19 Equal Justice Works Fellow, is working on a project at Catholic Legal Services, Archdiocese of Miami, to address a specific problem faced by undocumented immigrants with U.S.-born children. She is creating training materials for pro bono attorneys and organizing pro se clinics to
Continue readingMessage from 2016-17 President Matthew G. Brenner
Traditionally, the last privilege of Florida Bar Foundation presidents is to share a year-in-review message in the annual report. Looking back over 2016-17, it’s hard to know where to begin, but I think in this instance it makes sense to start where the year ended. On June 22, 2017, when
Continue readingContribution support revives Legal Aid Summer Fellows Program
by Nancy Kinnally After a seven-year hiatus, The Florida Bar Foundation is reinstating its popular Legal Aid Summer Fellows Program, though which law students spend 11 weeks working at Florida civil legal aid programs in projects focused on specific goals such as preventing eviction, protecting the rights of children and
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