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…
Continue readingFoundation 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…
Continue readingLawyers 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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