Foundation raises $63,665 for Loan Repayment Assistance Program at dinner
By Carley Conrod At the 43rd Annual Dinner and Reception on June 27, more than $63,000 was raised in support of…
Continue readingRichard C. Milstein receives Medal of Honor Award
Richard C. Milstein received the 2019 Medal of Honor for a lawyer at the Foundation’s Annual Reception and Dinner for his exemplary and unending capacity for pro bono work…
Continue readingMichael A. Bedke receives Medal of Honor Award
Michael A. Bedke, a real estate partner in the DLA Piper Tampa office, received the 2019 Medal of Honor for a Lawyer for his exceptional dedication to providing pro…
Continue readingPro Bono Law School Challenge benefits mentor, law student and clients
After scouring the internet for legal help and finding the cost of a bankruptcy lawyer overwhelming, an elderly couple approached Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida (CLSMF). What might have seemed…
Continue readingMessage from the President – Summer 2019
Benjamin Franklin once said, “You may delay, but time will not.” The poet John Mark Green wrote, “I blinked my eyes and in an instant, decades had passed.” These…
Continue readingEJW Fellow lays foundation for change in rural immigrant neighborhoods
By Natalie Disla Passionate about sparking change for immigrant and migrant families, Joseph Cordova, a 2018-20 Florida Bar Foundation-sponsored Equal Justice Works Fellow, practices community lawyering near south Putnam and…
Continue readingMessage from the President – Spring 2019
In April, I joined 11 colleagues as part of a delegation that traveled to Washington, D.C., for ABA Days to advocate for funding of Legal Services Corporation. LSC provides…
Continue readingWith support of lawyers, foster children bloom into successful adults
Nikki S. Weisburd, left, a senior attorney with Dade Legal Aid, spent years advocating for Michelle Charles,…
Continue readingRetired lawyers, law professors now eligible to take pro bono cases
Larry Moncrief, 91, volunteers as a pro bono lawyer for Legal…
Continue readingMessage from the President – Winter 2019
Florida Bar Foundation President Juliette E. Lippman began her term last…
Continue readingInnocence Project of Florida sees three men freed in one year
Dean McKee, with Innocence Project of…
Continue readingLawyers travel to Florida Keys on Justice Bus for hurricane clinic
Lawyers from Akerman LLP and Legal Services of Greater Miami rode the Justice Bus to Marathon, more than…
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