Foundation helps fund newly formed Florida Innocence Commission
by Nancy Kinnally James Bain, 54, meets the press on Dec. 17, 2009, after being exonerated with the…
Continue readingSarasota Young Lawyers reach out: Partnership brings civic education to area students
Stephanie Simmons’ American government students were among 40,000 in the Southwest Florida area who got an extra dose…
Continue readingGoldstein Award winners challenge selective code enforcement
Attorneys Lisa Carmona, left, and Tequisha…
Continue readingKeeping the developmentally disabled out of prison
Growing up in Parsons, Kan., Katy DeBriere was surrounded by people with developmental disabilities, many of them residents at a state…
Continue readingHelp for Floridians lost in the health-care system
Jodi Guin, 80, and her husband Bobby, 75, credit Florida Legal Services for ensuring they received the proper…
Continue readingFoundation grant helps demystify the bankruptcy process
by Gabrielle Davis In 2006, when then Florida Bar Foundation Secretary Kathleen McLeroy first heard about the uphill battles faced by…
Continue readingSummer Fellow committed to helping victims of domestic violence
by Gabrielle Davis Summer Fellow Jarred Reiling and Supervising Attorney Kathryn Oleksy of the Legal Aid Society of Palm…
Continue readingSaving Overtown’s “Little Oasis”
by Nancy Kinnally Lois Rigby has lived in Overtown’s Town Park Village for two decades, but long before the HUD complex opened…
Continue readingDisproving guilt: The Innocence Project of Florida helps the wrongly convicted
Alan Crotzer celebrates after the Florida Legislature’s passage of a bill awarding him $1.25 million in compensation…
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