Freshman class president at Miami’s Design & Architecture High School, one of the nation’s best magnet schools, Stephanie Davis had ambitions of attending a top arts school and a father intent on helping her achieve her dream. But as she was getting ready to start her junior year, Davis, who
Some 32 years ago, Jane Curran arrived in Florida from Washington, D.C., to serve as The Florida Bar Foundation’s first executive director. Although the Foundation had been incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1956, it never had any staff until 1982, when Florida’s Interest on Trust Account Program — the
Florida’s longest-serving attorney general, Robert A. Butterworth, has been selected to receive The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2014 Medal of Honor Award for a lawyer, the Florida legal profession’s highest award. Recognized by his peers as the nation’s top attorney general for his leadership in multi-state litigation against the tobacco industry,
International law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP and The Florida Bar Foundation are joining forces to fund a program that will help low-income and disadvantaged Floridians in Miami-Dade County receive better access to health care. Charlotte Joseph Cassel, who is expected to graduate from the University of Miami School of Law
Work has begun on a reinvigorated technology initiative that will help The Florida Bar Foundation further live up to its “Leadership and Funding for Justice in Florida” tagline. “Many people are aware of the Foundation’s role as a funder but are less familiar with its significant leadership role when it
Cheydrick Britt goes free after more than nine years of wrongful imprisonment When the State Attorney’s Office for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit dropped all charges against Cheydrick Britt Nov. 20, he became the 14th Floridian freed as a result of DNA evidence through the work of the Innocence Project of
The Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section has made its third major gift to The Florida Bar Foundation in three years with a $50,000 contribution in February 2014 that follows $75,000 gifts in 2012 and 2013. “We know that what the Foundation does is essential to our judicial system and access
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When most of us think of legal aid, we think of public interest lawyers helping individual clients resolve civil legal problems on a case-by-case basis. In reality, legal aid goes well beyond helping one client at a time. The expertise and collaboration that has developed among the lawyers at the
The abuse Manushka Gilet suffered from the age of 12 at the hands of her stepfather did not stop her from engaging in a wide range of school-sponsored activities as a teenager; it took the laws then governing the foster-care system to do that. “I’m a very active child. I
