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Bob Butterworth to receive the 2014 Medal of Honor Award
Florida’s longest-serving attorney general, Robert A. Butterworth, has been selected to receive The Florida…
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Fellowship funded by Greenberg Traurig and The Florida Bar Foundation to address barriers to health-care access
International law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP and The Florida Bar Foundation are joining forces to fund…
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Foundation helps lead statewide advances in access to justice
Work has begun on a reinvigorated technology initiative that will help The Florida Bar Foundation further live up to its “Leadership and Funding for Justice in Florida” tagline. “Many people…
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Innocence Project of Florida achieves its 14th exoneration
Cheydrick Britt goes free after more than nine years of wrongful imprisonment Cheydrick Britt, second from right, with…
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Trial Lawyers Section makes its third consecutive major gift
The Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section has made its third major gift to The Florida Bar…
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President’s Message – Fall 2013
When most of us think of legal aid, we think of public interest lawyers helping individual clients…
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Florida foster youth shine at the Capitol
Manushka Gilet, second from left, and other members of Florida Youth SHINE talk with Rochelle Koff of the…
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Akerman LLP remembers Jim Foster with $10,000 gift designated for Children’s Legal Services
Jim Foster is remembered by his colleagues at Akerman LLP as a friend and mentor whose door…
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Lawyers partner with libraries in innovative pro bono effort
As fallout from the recession lingers, legal problems from foreclosure to divorce continue to haunt low-income Floridians just as the resources of legal aid organizations dwindle, which is why…
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Project that secured Medicaid benefits for autistic children receives inaugural Paul Doyle Children’s Advocacy Award
Monica Vigues-Pitan of Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc., left, and Miriam Harmatz of Florida Legal Services Inc….
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Protecting the legal rights of Florida’s migrant farmworkers
Colin Abbott, managing attorney of the Florida Rural Legal Services migrant unit, talks with client Myriam…
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