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Help for Floridians lost in the health-care system

Posted by Jessica Brown on January 1, 2010

Jodi Guin, 80, and her husband Bobby, 75, credit Florida Legal Services for ensuring they received the proper…

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Foundation ranks among Florida’s top charities

Posted by Jessica Brown on December 1, 2009

December 2009 ORLANDO — For the third consecutive year, The Florida Bar Foundation is ranked among the top-rated charities in Florida and in the nation, according to Charity Navigator, an…

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Foundation co-sponsors Florida Justice Summit

Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2009

November 2009 TAMPA — With partial support from The Florida Bar Foundation in the form of a $160,000 grant made through the Foundation’s Improvements in the Administration of Justice Grant…

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Florida Legal Services building named in honor of Paul Doyle

Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2009

For 35 years Florida Legal Services has been the…

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Foundation launches Pilot Pro Bono Program

Posted by Jessica Brown on October 15, 2009

A study funded by The Florida Bar Foundation found that Florida lawyers don’t lack the desire to provide pro bono legal services, they just lack the time. Of the lawyers…

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Law students to focus their summer on public service

Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009

Legal aid organizations statewide are doubling as real-world training grounds for law students who have joined the Legal Aid ranks for 11 weeks through The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2009…

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Foundation grant helps demystify the bankruptcy process

Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009

In 2006, when then Florida Bar Foundation Secretary Kathleen McLeroy first heard about the uphill…

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Summer Fellow committed to helping victims of domestic violence

Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009

Summer Fellow Jarred Reiling and Supervising Attorney Kathryn Oleksy of the Legal Aid Society…

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Saving Overtown’s “Little Oasis”

Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009

Lois 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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Leaders, cabinet leaders to be honored at Florida Bar Foundation event

Posted by Jessica Brown on June 24, 2009

Florida legislative and cabinet leaders who helped secure state funding for civil legal assistance and worked on behalf of the state’s distressed homeowners will be recognized June 25 during…

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Legislative leaders to be honored for restoring waiver of filing fees for indigent clients

Posted by Jessica Brown on June 24, 2009

Florida lawmakers who helped pass legislation reinstating the waiver of civil court filing fees for impoverished clients will be honored jointly by The Florida Bar Foundation and The Florida…

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Sylvia H. Walbolt to receive Foundation’s highest honor

Posted by Jessica Brown on June 1, 2009

In recognition of 45 years of providing free legal services to clients ranging from Guantanamo detainees to a St….

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