In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. There is a new trend I’ve noticed this year – instead of adopting resolutions for the new year, some are adopting a word for the year. For the Foundation,
In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. The Florida Bar Foundation has been the recipient of two generous donations recently. In 2022, lawyer Matthew Weidner of Weidner Law in St. Petersburg donated $15,523. Weidner incorporated Florida
At the Foundation’s June 2022 board of directors meeting, Foundation President Connie Bookman honored Joseph “Jody” Hudgins with the 2022 President’s Award for his passionate dedication and innovative commitment to increasing access to Florida’s justice system while promoting the principles of equal justice for all. Hudgins began his term on
In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. Community Law Program and Bay Area Legal Services won the Foundation’s 2022 Goldstein – Van Nortwick Award for Excellence, a competitive award that recognizes significant impact work undertaken by
In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. Richard “Dick” C. Woltmann, president and CEO of Bay Area Legal Services, received the Foundation’s 2022 Jane Elizabeth Curran Distinguished Service Award in June. Woltmann, who has led Bay
During the 2022 Florida Bar Annual Convention in June, the Family Law Section presented a check for $75,000 to the Foundation in support of children’s legal services. The section has donated more to the Foundation than any other Bar section, totaling $575,000 as of June 2022.”We’re immensely proud of our
In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. The Florida Bar Foundation closed on the purchase of a 4,200 sq. ft. building in Maitland on July 15. The building will house the Foundation’s operations and staff. In
In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. I am honored to serve as the Foundation’s president for 2022-2023 and look forward to a productive and constructive year. The Foundation has so much to be grateful for
In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. Sarasota lawyer and former Florida Bar Foundation president John C. Patterson Jr. was awarded The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2022 Medal of Honor for a Lawyer, the Foundation’s highest honor,
What started as playing in the pool with his siblings on Memorial Day turned into a life-altering emergency room trip for two-year-old TJ Johnson. After getting accidentally bumped in the head, TJ’s eye began to wander, and he was rushed to the emergency room. There, doctors found a craniopharyngioma –
In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. Foundation executive director Donny MacKenzie and I talk for an hour and a half every Thursday morning. I always leave those calls with a sense of awe in how
In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. The Florida Bar Foundation received a cy pres award of $57,588.08 in January. Robert W. Murphy of The Murphy Law Firm in Ft. Lauderdale facilitated the donation. Under cy
