Legal Aid attorney opens doors for first-grader
Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2010by Nancy Kinnally In this photo: Keshawn, now 8, and his father James Kearse relax at home together in…
Continue readingEscambia schools explore alternatives to zero-tolerance
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Continue readingFoundation helps fund newly formed Florida Innocence Commission
Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2010by 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
Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2010Stephanie 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
Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2010Attorneys Lisa Carmona, left, and Tequisha…
Continue readingAll lawyers can help children thrive
Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2010by Gabrielle Davis
Continue readingPaul Doyle Justice Center dedicated as Florida Legal Services headquarters
Posted by Jessica Brown on January 1, 2010by Gabrielle Davis …
Continue readingKeeping the developmentally disabled out of prison
Posted by Jessica Brown on January 1, 2010Growing 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
Posted by Jessica Brown on January 1, 2010Jodi 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
Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009In 2006, when then Florida Bar Foundation Secretary Kathleen McLeroy first heard about the uphill…
Continue readingSummer Fellow committed to helping victims of domestic violence
Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009Summer Fellow Jarred Reiling and Supervising Attorney Kathryn Oleksy of the Legal Aid Society…
Continue readingSaving Overtown’s “Little Oasis”
Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009Lois Rigby has lived in Overtown’s Town Park Village for two decades, but long before the HUD complex opened in 1971,…
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