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Stories of Justice

  • Foundation’s new pro bono website goes statewide

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on July 20, 2017

    After a successful pilot in Miami-Dade County, FloridaProBonoMatters.org, a new website that enables pro bono attorneys to search for local pro bono cases that suit their interests, is being rolled out statewide. The Florida Bar Foundation, which has funded and overseen the development of the site, in June held training

  • Attorney Angela C. Vigil to serve on The Florida Bar Foundation board

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on April 19, 2017

    MAITLAND, Fla. – Miami attorney Angela C. Vigil has been appointed by The Florida Bar to a three-year term on the board of The Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide charitable organization whose mission is to provide greater access to justice. Vigil is pro bono partner and executive director for Baker

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    Escambia Project utilizes community design to create new legal services models

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on March 11, 2017

    For two and a half days in early February, legal aid attorneys, community activists, social service providers, law professors, Florida Bar Foundation staff and others gathered at a community service center in Pensacola to design new approaches to the delivery of legal services. Led by Margaret Hagan, director of the

  • New interactive pro bono website puts attorneys in the driver’s seat

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on February 23, 2017

    MIAMI –Lawyers in Miami-Dade County who want to volunteer their services will soon have an easy way to find just the right case through an interactive website funded by The Florida Bar Foundation. “This system puts pro bono attorneys in the driver’s seat, giving them a user-friendly way to filter

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    FSU law professor honored for work supported in part by The Florida Bar Foundation

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on November 21, 2016

    by Jakeyla Augustin Paolo Annino, director of the Children’s Advocacy Clinic at the Florida State University Public Interest Law Center, has been selected by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) to receive the 2017 Father Robert Drinan Award for his work, much of which has been funded by The

  • Legal aid attorneys push Florida Medicaid to cover cure for hepatitis C

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on November 1, 2016

    For two years Vickie Goldstein filed appeals and wrote letters trying to get Florida’s Medicaid program to pay for a drug with the potential to cure her of the viral infection that was slowly destroying her liver. For two years she got the same answer: You have to get sicker

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    Pro bono attorney prevents wrongful eviction for mother and daughter

    Posted by Jessica Brown on October 29, 2016

    by Rayven Wright On the eve of her 21st birthday, Brittney and her mother Tina were shocked to receive a notice of non-compliance from their property manager. According to the notice, Brittney’s emotional support animal, Panga, was in violation of the community’s height and weight guidelines under the pet policy.

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    Gulfport attorney, 79, still going strong for pro bono clients

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on October 26, 2016

    By Rayven Wright Not long after his retirement in 2012, Gulfport attorney Larry Markell, then in his mid-70s, began offering his legal services pro bono to low-income residents throughout Pinellas County through the Community Law Program. In Markell’s first case with the program, he represented a divorcee about his age.

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    Miami pro bono attorney works to reunite teen with his aunt

    Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on October 24, 2016

    By Rayven Wright After his parents lost their parental rights, “Jake,” 15, began the battle to find stability and permanency in a forever home. While living with his parents, Jake had been exposed to violence and drug use and experienced severe neglect. Jake was placed with his maternal aunt, but

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    Florida Bar Foundation hires South Florida pro bono program officer

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on October 23, 2016

    MIAMI – Anais Taboas will join The Florida Bar Foundation Nov. 7 as its new South Florida Pro Bono Program Officer and will work out of space donated by top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP in its Miami office. A statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide greater

  • Mobile Law for All project sends volunteers into high-poverty neighborhoods

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on October 21, 2016

    By Stacey Singer DeLoye Located within the Leon County Courthouse near the Capitol, the Legal Aid Foundation of Tallahassee connects more than 120 volunteer attorneys per year to low-income Floridians faced with complex civil matters such as landlord-tenant disputes and child custody concerns. Getting to the foundation requires finding parking

  • Teamwork enables Miami veteran to keep longtime family home

    Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on October 21, 2016

    By Stacey Singer DeLoye For 40 years the Rolle family had lived in the same modest home in the Miami area. Ten Rolle children grew up in that 1,200-square-foot house. But as the patriarch of the Rolle family grew older, he took out a reverse mortgage to help with living

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