• Miami Law is 2022 Florida Pro Bono Law School Challenge MVP

    The Florida Bar Foundation announced the winners of the 2022 Florida Pro Bono Law School Challenge in April. The University of Miami School of Law won the MVP Pro Bono Award for matching the most students with its own alumni. For the second year in a row, Barry University Dwayne

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    Message from the President – Winter 2022

    In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. The Foundation is forging a new path in 2022, focused on implementing changes that are a result of the updated IOTA rule. This year, our board and staff are

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    Equal Justice Works Fellows use personal experiences to impact legal aid work

    As a Haitian Creole speaking lawyer, Anne Piervil hoped her representation would allow her to make inroads in Central Florida’s Haitian community as she built a Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) as part of her Equal Justice Works fellowship. “The Haitian community in Central Florida is vibrant and thriving in culture,

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    Foundation forms future plans for technology assets

    In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. In late 2021, the Foundation’s Technology Committee completed a set of long-range plan recommendations. The Foundation received eight digital assets from the former Florida Justice Technology Center, and the

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    Foundation benefits from donations of all sizes and shapes

    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 received a $12,558 cy pres award to be used for consumer protection legal aid. In the Southern District of Florida case Gonzalez v. TCR

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    Message from the President – Fall 2021

    In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. It takes a pandemic. It’s hard for me to watch the pain of so many folks facing so much uncertainty. To see loved ones getting sick, some dying. The

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    Florida Supreme Court approves changes to IOTA Bar Rule

    In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. The Florida Supreme Court has amended Bar Rule 5-1.1(g), which outlines the Interest on Trust Accounts (IOTA) program. The Florida Bar Foundation has been the sole administrator of the

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    Foundation receives donations from Family Law Section, settlements

    In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. The Florida Bar Family Law Section made a $75,000 donation in February in support of the Foundation’s Children’s Legal Services grant program. The section has now given $500,000 total

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    Foundation’s Florida Pro Bono Law School Challenge places 309 cases

    The Florida Bar Foundation announced the winners of the 2021 Florida Pro Bono Law School Challenge April 5. Stetson University College of Law won the top honor, the MVP Pro Bono Champion Award, for matching the most students with its own alumni. Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law

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    CABA Pro Bono wins 2021 Doyle Children’s Advocacy Award

    After the initial shock of being diagnosed with a brain tumor subsided, Miami teen Roberto was relieved that his CABA Pro Bono Legal Services lawyers had invested so much time preparing him for adulthood. Roberto had fled Guatemala at age 16 after years of abuse at the hands of his

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    Message from the President – Spring 2021

    In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name. If you support the mission of The Florida Bar Foundation (and if you are reading this, you probably do), then please consider partnering with us in one of many

  • Board member supports Foundation financially and through advocacy

    Florida Bar Foundation board member Joseph “Jody” Hudgins has made a $10,001 donation to the Foundation. Hudgins, who was appointed to The Florida Bar Board of Governors as a public member in 2019, also serves on the Foundation’s board as designate for John M. Stewart, The Bar’s Immediate Past President.