Keeping the developmentally disabled out of prison
Posted by Jessica Brown on January 1, 2010Growing up in Parsons, Kan., Katy DeBriere was surrounded by people with developmental disabilities, many of them residents at a state…
Continue readingHelp for Floridians lost in the health-care system
Posted by Jessica Brown on January 1, 2010Jodi Guin, 80, and her husband Bobby, 75, credit Florida Legal Services for ensuring they received the proper…
Continue readingFoundation grant helps demystify the bankruptcy process
Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009In 2006, when then Florida Bar Foundation Secretary Kathleen McLeroy first heard about the uphill…
Continue readingSummer Fellow committed to helping victims of domestic violence
Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009Summer Fellow Jarred Reiling and Supervising Attorney Kathryn Oleksy of the Legal Aid Society…
Continue readingSaving Overtown’s “Little Oasis”
Posted by Jessica Brown on July 1, 2009Lois Rigby has lived in Overtown’s Town Park Village for two decades, but long before the HUD complex opened in 1971,…
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