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Archives: Stories of Justice
  • Batchelor Foundation gift supports Miami Law’s advocacy for foster youth

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on March 1, 2014

    “Stephanie Davis” is pursuing her dream of attending art school in New York City thanks in large…


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  • Innocence Project of Florida achieves its 14th exoneration

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on March 1, 2014

    Cheydrick Britt goes free after more than nine years of wrongful imprisonment Cheydrick Britt, second from right, with…


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  • Florida foster youth shine at the Capitol

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on November 1, 2013

    Manushka Gilet, second from left, and other members of Florida Youth SHINE talk with Rochelle Koff of the…


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  • Protecting the legal rights of Florida’s migrant farmworkers

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on November 1, 2013

    Colin Abbott, managing attorney of the Florida Rural Legal Services migrant unit, talks with client Myriam…


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  • Children’s legal services projects in dire need of funding

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on August 7, 2013

    A single mother waiting tables in Daytona Beach, Michelle Gonska rarely saw two days go by without getting a call from her first-grader’s…


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  • Elizabeth Guzman and Ericka Garcia: The warrior and the soldier

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on March 1, 2013

    Elizabeth Guzman, left, almost lost her severely disabled daughter. The girl is alive today and Guzman’s…


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  • After losing her life savings, Miami woman gets a fresh start

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on March 1, 2013

    On the verge of 75, Caroline Pennington found herself starting all over again. After a lifetime of hard work and solo parenting, the former marketing…


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  • Florida Bar Foundation-funded Equal Justice Works project helps break the cycle of dependency

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on November 1, 2012

    Amanda Alvarez, 18, comes across as that recent…


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  • Federal judge orders state of Florida to cover applied behavioral analysis therapy for autism

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on July 1, 2012

    Iliana Gonzalez and her son Karls, 6, enjoy visiting the playground at the…


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  • Legal aid organizations struggle to retain attorneys cultivated by Bar Foundation and Equal Justice Works

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on March 1, 2012

    From left, Florida Institutional Legal Services staff attorneys and former Equal Justice Works fellows Kristen Lentz, Cassandra Capobianco…


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  • One student’s path to Stanford

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on November 1, 2011

    Growing up in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, a city on Mexico’s central plateau,…


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  • Positively Pro Bono: Kenneth Jacobs’ story

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on November 1, 2011

    Kenneth Jacobs held a job his entire adult life until 2008 when he…


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