Message from the President – Winter 2017
Many of us in Florida felt the effects of Hurricane Irma – even if it was just being without power for a few days – but for Floridians who were […]
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Message from the President
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
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Study finds civil legal aid yields seven-fold return on investment
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
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Escambia Project utilizes community design to create new legal services models
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
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Florida Bar Foundation hires South Florida pro bono program officer
Anais Taboas joined The Florida Bar Foundation Nov. 7 as its new South Florida Pro Bono Program Officer and is working out of space donated by Akerman LLP in its
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Foundation funded first training for state’s court public information staff
As The Florida Bar Foundation celebrates its 60th anniversary, we are taking a look back at how a small grant helped make a big difference to Florida’s courts. In early
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Foundation continues to play vital role in Florida Commission on Access to Civil Justice
When Florida Chief Justice Jorge Labarga issued an administrative order Oct. 10 re-establishing the Florida Commission on Access to Civil Justice and making it permanent, the Florida Supreme Court’s news
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Legal aid attorneys push Florida Medicaid to cover cure for hepatitis C
For two years Vickie Goldstein filed appeals and wrote letters trying to get Florida’s Medicaid program to pay for a drug with the potential to cure her of the viral
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Message from the President – Fall 2016
For many reasons, 2016 is likely to stand out in our collective memory for years to come, but one thing I hope every Florida resident, including lawyers and judges, will
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David Prather’s gift to help usher in legal aid’s next generation
A civil trial attorney with Clark, Fountain, La Vista, Prather, Keen & Littky-Rubin in West Palm Beach, Florida Bar Foundation board member David Prather understands the importance of cultivating a
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