Foundation-funded project protects the rights of chronically ill children to specialty care
When Jennifer Rodriguez got a call from a nurse case manager last May asking her to take a survey about her son Alex, 11, she had no idea that her […]
Speaking of Justice
A decade of partnership puts an end to 275 years behind bars
When James Bain embraced his sisters on the steps of the Polk County, Fla., courthouse on Dec. 17, 2009, as a free man for the first time in 35 years,
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Laid off legal aid attorney continued pro bono on case ending with $17.4 million verdict
To most Floridians the town of Felda in Hendry County is little more than an overlooked dot on a state map, but to five women who worked in the Moreno
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Blackwell Receives 2016 Tobias Simon Award
[fullscreenvideo videourl=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIgD6kLg7uM”] Florida Bar Foundation CEO Bruce Blackwell receives Tobias Simon Award When Florida Bar Foundation CEO Bruce B. Blackwell accepted the 2016 Tobias Simon Award at the Florida Supreme
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Fellowship project offers legal help for foster children with medical needs
Florida foster kids have a new ally in overcoming barriers to health care thanks to a project sponsored jointly by the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP, The Florida
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A long legal road leads to a permanent home for Brittney
Brittney Carroll, 11, smiles broadly and extends her hand in greeting to welcome a visitor to her family’s Tallahassee farm, where she and her six siblings help care for a
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Florida Bar Leadership Academy makes leadership gift
by Doug Sachs The Florida Bar Leadership Academy Class II on June 27 demonstrated what being leaders is all about by making a collective $34,200 pledge to The Florida Bar
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Message from the President
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” Immortal words uttered by Thomas Paine in 1776 seem appropriate in many respects today. For instance, as we survey the legal services
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Foundation to benefit from $500,000 cy pres award
An Orlando-based U.S. District Judge presiding in the Middle District of Florida has approved a $10 million funded settlement in a case involving late-fee charges by Bank of America. As
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ACTL Fellows provide trial skills training for legal aid attorneys
by Doug Sachs Linda Smith, 48, her elderly mother and two teenage sons stood to lose their federally subsidized apartment after Jacksonville police found a marijuana plant on the family’s
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