Outstanding children’s advocates to be recognized
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Florida Justice Technology Center launches with Florida Bar Foundation funding
July 8, 2015 MAITLAND, Fla. —A new statewide nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to justice through the innovative use of technology has been launched with $725,000 in funding from The
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Medical-legal partnership answers veterans’ needs, changes lives
When Henry Wilson’s VA pension was cut from $1,000 to $65 a month due to clerical errors, the lost income put him into a downward spiral that only reversed when
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President’s Award for Excellence presented posthumously to Julio Jaramillo
View video tribute to Julio Jaramillo produced by Noemi Orsini July 8, 2015 by Doug Sachs MAITLAND, Fla. — Florida Bar Foundation President Emerson R. Thompson Jr. presented the President’s
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Paul Doyle Children’s Advocacy Award goes to project that secured lawyers for dependent children with special needs
July 8, 2015 MAITLAND, Fla. — Attorney Richard Joyce stood before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman and stated his 10-year-old client’s case in the simplest terms. “I believe the court
Legal aid organizations struggle to retain attorneys cultivated by Bar Foundation and Equal Justice Works
As an Equal Justice Works Fellow advocating for mentally ill prisoners, Cassandra Capobianco uncovered a startling overuse of tear gas and pepper spray in Florida prisons, resulting in serious burns
Speaking of Justice Fall 2013
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Trial Lawyers Section makes its third consecutive major gift
The Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section has made its third major gift to The Florida Bar Foundation in three years with a $50,000 contribution in February 2014 that follows $75,000
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Innocence Project of Florida achieves its 14th exoneration
Cheydrick Britt goes free after more than nine years of wrongful imprisonment When the State Attorney’s Office for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit dropped all charges against Cheydrick Britt Nov. 20,
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