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  • Children’s Advocacy Award goes to project that helped change state law to strengthen children’s best interests in Florida adoption

    Posted on May 26, 2017

    MAITLAND, Fla. – The Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association has been selected to receive The Florida Bar Foundation’s Paul Doyle Children’s Advocacy Award for its work on a case that was instrumental in winning passage of the Child’s Best Hope Act, a new law that allows Florida judges to apply the […]

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  • Orlando’s Jane Elizabeth Curran to receive The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2017 Medal of Honor Award for a Non-Lawyer

    Posted on May 16, 2017

    MAITLAND, Fla. – Jane Elizabeth Curran, The Florida Bar Foundation’s founding executive director, has been selected to receive the 2017 Medal of Honor Award, the Foundation’s highest award, in the non-lawyer category. Curran was recruited to The Florida Bar Foundation in 1982 to lead the organization as it launched the nation’s first Interest on Trust […]

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  • John F. Harkness Jr. to receive The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2017 Medal of Honor Award for a lawyer

    Posted on May 16, 2017

    MAITLAND, Fla. – John F. “Jack” Harkness Jr., a nationally recognized legal visionary and the nation’s longest-serving bar executive, has been selected to receive The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2017 Medal of Honor Award, the Foundation’s highest award, in the lawyer category. After serving as the State Courts Administrator for six years, Harkness became executive director […]

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  • Randall Berg Jr. to receive The Florida Bar Foundation’s Jane Elizabeth Curran Distinguished Service Award

    Posted on May 16, 2017

    MAITLAND, Fla. – Miami civil rights attorney Randall C. Berg Jr. has been selected to receive The Florida Bar Foundation’s Jane Elizabeth Curran Distinguished Service Award. The award is named for the Foundation’s first executive director in recognition of her contributions to the Foundation, the national IOLTA movement and access to justice. The award recognizes […]

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  • Study finds civil legal aid yields seven-fold return on investment

    Posted on April 13, 2017

    With funding for civil legal aid in Florida at its lowest point in 10 years, a new study shows that every dollar spent on civil legal services for the state’s low-income residents yields more than $7 in economic impacts. Commissioned by The Florida Bar Foundation, the study found that 33 Florida nonprofit civil legal aid […]

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  • Message from the President

    Posted on April 13, 2017

    In the midst of perhaps the most challenging period in its history from a financial standpoint, as the chart below indicates, The Florida Bar Foundation has recently made significant progress addressing access to justice issues for all Floridians. During the past year our board adopted a strategic reset, in which the new emphasis is on […]

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  • New interactive pro bono website puts attorneys in driver’s seat

    Posted on April 13, 2017

    Lawyers in Miami-Dade County who want to volunteer their services now have an easy way to find just the right case through an interactive website being developed by The Florida Bar Foundation. “This system puts pro bono attorneys in the driver’s seat, giving them a userfriendly way to filter and search for cases that suit […]

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  • Escambia Project

    Escambia Project utilizes community design to create new legal services models

    Posted on March 11, 2017

    For two and a half days in early February, legal aid attorneys, community activists, social service providers, law professors, Florida Bar Foundation staff and others gathered at a community service center in Pensacola to design new approaches to the delivery of legal services. Led by Margaret Hagan, director of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford […]

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  • New interactive pro bono website puts attorneys in the driver’s seat

    Posted on February 23, 2017

    MIAMI –Lawyers in Miami-Dade County who want to volunteer their services will soon have an easy way to find just the right case through an interactive website funded by The Florida Bar Foundation. “This system puts pro bono attorneys in the driver’s seat, giving them a user-friendly way to filter and search for cases that […]

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  • Study finds civil legal aid yields seven-fold return on investment in Florida

    Posted on February 1, 2017

    MAITLAND, Fla. – With funding for civil legal aid in Florida at its lowest point in 10 years, a new study shows that every dollar spent on civil legal services for the state’s low-income residents yields more than $7 in economic impacts. Commissioned by The Florida Bar Foundation, the study found that 33 Florida nonprofit […]

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  • Foundation seeks nominations for Jane Elizabeth Curran Distinguished Service Award

    Posted on January 9, 2017

    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 (IOTA) program and spearheading virtually every […]

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    FSU law professor honored for work supported in part by The Florida Bar Foundation

    Posted on November 21, 2016

    by Jakeyla Augustin Paolo Annino, director of the Children’s Advocacy Clinic at the Florida State University Public Interest Law Center, has been selected by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) to receive the 2017 Father Robert Drinan Award for his work, much of which has been funded by The Florida Bar Foundation. “Father Robert […]

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