Settlement helps seniors, disabled on Medicaid avoid nursing homes
Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on December 7, 2017by Stacey Singer DeLoye Following painful spinal surgery, Janet Cramer, 79, suffered a…
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Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on August 8, 2016by Jennifer Etienne When Gainesville-based Southern Legal Counsel (SLC) took as clients of a group of homeless people arrested for being in a St. Petersburg park after closing time, they…
Continue readingLegal aid organizations struggle to retain attorneys cultivated by Bar Foundation and Equal Justice Works
Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2012From left, Florida Institutional Legal Services staff attorneys and former Equal Justice Works fellows Kristen Lentz, Cassandra Capobianco…
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