EJW Fellow creates framework for pro bono attorneys to help immigrants
by Nancy Kinnally Krystin Montersil, a 2017-19 Equal Justice Works Fellow, is working on a project at Catholic Legal Services, Archdiocese of Miami, to address a specific problem faced by…
Continue readingThe Florida Bar Foundation Funds Four Equal Justice Works Fellows
The Florida Bar Foundation will fund four 2018-2020 Equal Justice Works Fellows, whose two-year civil legal aid projects will support economic development and family stability within disadvantaged communities “The increased…
Continue readingFamily Law Section gives its third $75,000 gift to The Florida Bar Foundation
Florida Bar Foundation President Donny MacKenzie, left, and CEO Bruce Blackwell, right, accept a $75,000 check…
Continue readingMedical-legal partnership answers veterans’ needs, changes lives
Henry Wilson, right, turned his life around with help from Equal Justice Works Fellow Amanda Sejba, who…
Continue readingElizabeth Guzman and Ericka Garcia: The warrior and the soldier
Elizabeth Guzman, left, almost lost her severely disabled daughter. The girl is alive today and Guzman’s…
Continue readingFlorida Bar Foundation-funded Equal Justice Works project helps break the cycle of dependency
Amanda Alvarez, 18, comes across as that recent…
Continue readingFederal judge orders state of Florida to cover applied behavioral analysis therapy for autism
Iliana Gonzalez and her son Karls, 6, enjoy visiting the playground at the…
Continue readingLegal aid organizations struggle to retain attorneys cultivated by Bar Foundation and Equal Justice Works
From left, Florida Institutional Legal Services staff attorneys and former Equal Justice Works fellows Kristen Lentz, Cassandra Capobianco…
Continue readingKeeping the developmentally disabled out of prison
Growing up in Parsons, Kan., Katy DeBriere was surrounded by people with developmental disabilities, many of them residents at a state…
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