Dr. Mimi Graham receives 2020 Medal of Honor Award for a Non-Lawyer
Dr. Graham (right) accepts the Medal of Honor from Foundation Second Vice President Hon. Suzanne…
Continue readingEJW Fellow advocates for the future of human trafficking survivors
By Deana Alegi Victoria Sexton, a 2019-21 Equal Justice Works Fellow funded by the Foundation, provides civil legal aid and advocates for the rights of human trafficking survivors in…
Continue readingMessage from the President – Fall 2020
The American legal system is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. But the system can be…
Continue readingFoundation awards $1.45 million in coronavirus relief grants
Most legal aid program staff continue to work remotely on matters. For the safety of…
Continue readingJudges Fay, King receive Medal of Honor Award for a Lawyer
The Honorable Peter T. Fay and the Honorable James Lawrence King have received The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2020 Medal of Honor Award for a Lawyer, the Foundation’s highest honor. Fay,…
Continue readingGuardians ad litem funded by Foundation change one life at a time
“It wouldn’t have been a happy story or a success story,” says Melissa Whitted, reflecting on what it would have been like for her and her husband to adopt…
Continue readingLegal aid programs prepare, respond in face of COVID-19
As the reality of stay-at-home orders, social distancing and closed businesses set in for Floridians in…
Continue readingMessage from the President – Spring 2020
I hope this newsletter finds you and your family healthy during this unique and unprecedented time. While there have been and will continue to be many challenges, I am…
Continue readingDomestic violence survivors turn to legal aid for divorce, support
One night during the summer of 2018, Elizabeth* waited outside her home for her husband to let her back in to get her two young daughters. He had punched…
Continue readingMessage from the President – Winter 2020
When most of us think about legal aid, we think about lawyers on the front lines serving clients. But, there are a lot of things going on behind the…
Continue readingFoundation awards $6.4 million in Community Economic Development grants
The Florida Bar Foundation board on Dec. 13 approved $6,443,162 in grants to 25 legal aid providers to address community economic development. Following a $16.65 billion settlement agreement between…
Continue readingTrafficking prevention rule adopted by state board of education
During the fall 2019 semester, law students from the Florida State University College of Law Human Trafficking Exploitation Law Project (HELP) advocated for proposed Florida Department of Education (DOE)…
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