• Akerman LLP remembers Jim Foster with $10,000 gift designated for Children’s Legal Services

    During his 16 years at Akerman LLP, Jim Foster was someone colleagues and friends often turned to for advice. “He was very much a mentor to younger lawyers and even to more experienced lawyers,” said Charles Brumback, managing partner of the Orlando office. “Having practiced for 40 years, he had

  • Lawyers partner with libraries in innovative pro bono effort

    As fallout from the recession lingers, legal problems from foreclosure to divorce continue to haunt low-income Floridians just as the resources of legal aid organizations dwindle, which is why volunteer efforts got more innovative than ever during Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Oct. 20-26. Through a new outreach effort, lawyers from

  • Project that secured Medicaid benefits for autistic children receives inaugural Paul Doyle Children’s Advocacy Award

    A Miami-based legal aid project that enabled more than 8,000 autistic children to gain coverage under Florida Medicaid for the only effective, evidence-based treatment for their condition was recognized with the first Paul Doyle Children’s Advocacy Award by The Florida Bar Foundation at its Sept. 20 board meeting. The first-place

  • Protecting the legal rights of Florida’s migrant farmworkers

    Pedro Hernandez Perez, 51, has had his wallet stolen twice once from a migrant farmworker boarding house and the second time on a bus. “They took my money and my documents and left me without anything,” Perez said. Each time he was robbed Perez had to apply for replacement of

  • Children’s Campaign 2013

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  • Children’s legal services projects in dire need of funding

    A single mother waiting tables in Daytona Beach, Michelle Gonska rarely saw two days go by without getting a call from her first-grader’s school about his behavior. “I was trying to work, and the school was calling me every other day because they could not handle him,” she said. “I

  • President’s Message Summer 2013

    Think about what your life would be like if you had not had access to education, health care, and a safe living environment as a child. Now imagine having a serious illness or a disability and being denied health-care services. Perhaps you would have fared poorly in school because no

  • Please consider a charitable donation to help provide legal assistance to Florida’s most vulnerable children

    Florida Bar Foundation Children’s Legal Services grants support legal assistance to poor children in critical areas that affect their safety, well-being and future development. Children’s Legal Services include help for foster children and children in need of health benefits or special educational assistance. Bar members can support Children’s Legal Services

  • Speaking of Justice Summer 2013

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  • Legal services icon Paul Doyle retires

    After 40 years at the forefront of local, statewide and national efforts to strengthen systems for providing civil legal services to the poor, Paul C. Doyle, 77, a graduate of Harvard Law School, retired June 30. “The impact Paul has had on access to justice is profound,” said Jane Curran,

  • President’s Message – Summer 2013

    Since Speaking of Justice was launched in 2009, it has always carried stories of the work of our grantees, and it will continue to do so. But with all of the change 2013 is bringing to The Florida Bar Foundation, and with so much generosity of time, talent and financial

  • Robert C. Josefsberg receives Medal of Honor Award

    Robert C. Josefsberg, a Miami attorney known for his half century of counsel to governors, judges and clients ranging from a rock star to the poorest of the poor, received the Foundation’s 2013 Medal of Honor Award for a lawyer, the Florida legal profession’s highest award, at the Foundation’s 37th