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John W. Thornton, Jr. Bruce B. Blackwell Directors Investing in President President (terms expire 2008) Bruce B. Blackwell Kathleen S. McLeroy President-Elect Louis Kwall President-Elect Michele Kane Cummings Access to Justice Kathleen S. McLeroy John A. Noland Adele I. Stone Julio C. Jaramillo Secretary John C. Patterson, Jr. First Vice President Vee H. Leonard Adele I. Stone Treasurer Scott R. Rost John A. Noland Gary S. Lesser Second Vice President (terms expire 2008) Reginald Luster Michele Kane Cummings Hon. John W. Thornton, Jr. Miles A. McGrane, III Designated Directors Immediate Past President Julio C. Jaramillo (terms expire 2009) Honorable Emerson R . Thompson, Jr. Vee H. Leonard Fifth District Court of Appeal Robert N. Clarke, Jr. Gary S. Lesser Honorable Nikki Ann Clark Designated Directors Michael J. Faehner Reginald Luster Second Judicial Circuit Honorable Emerson R . Thompson, Jr. George F. Knox, Jr. Miles A. McGrane, III Henry M. Coxe, III Fifth District Court of Appeal Donna M. Krusbe President – The Florida Bar (terms expire 2009) Honorable Thomas S. Wilson, Jr. L. Christian Marlin Francisco R. Angones Robert N. Clarke, Jr. Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court President-Elect – The Florida Bar Paul J. Schwiep Michael J. Faehner Francisco R. Angones Alan B. Bookman George F. Knox, Jr. President – The Florida Bar (terms expire 2010) Immediate Past President – The Florida Bar L. Christian Marlin John G. White, III Michael A. Bander Donna M. Krusbe W. Edward McIntyre President-Elect – The Florida Bar Anthony J. Carriuolo President, Florida Legal Services, Inc. Paul J. Schwiep Henry M. Coxe, III Dominic C. MacKenzie Endowment Trustees Immediate Past President – Roberto R. Pardo The Florida Bar Darryl M. Bloodworth John C. Patterson, Jr. Public Members William L. Thompson, Jr. Howard A. Caplan Scott R. Rost Michael M. Fields Andrew M. O’Malley President, Florida Legal Services, Inc. Maria E. Henderson Terrence Russell Royce B. Walden William H. Davis Public Members Endowment Trustees Directors Executive Director Solomon L. Badger, III William L. Thompson, Jr. (terms expire 2007) Jane Elizabeth Curran Michael M. Fields Andrew M. O’Malley Michael A. Bander Maria E. Henderson Terrence Russell Alejandro Brito Royce B. Walden William H. Davis

Every day, in every city in Florida, Executive Director we help Legal Aid help those least able to afford a lawyer. Jane Elizabeth Curran We are The Florida Bar Foundation, and we believe the system works best when it works for everyone.

GOVERNANCE

The Florida Bar Foundation is a not-for-profit Florida corporation established in 1956 by the Board by designation (two judicial officers appointed by the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, of Governors of The Florida Bar to foster law-related public interest programs on behalf of Florida’s the president, president-elect, and immediate past president of The Florida Bar, and the president legal profession. Membership is open to all individuals interested in supporting the mission of the of Florida Legal Services, which provides coordination, training and other support services to legal Foundation. Members are eligible to hold office and serve as directors of the Foundation. aid programs across the state), at least two but not more than four public members and 18 at-large directors. At-large directors serve a maximum of two, three-year terms, with one-third selected by Participants in Florida's Interest on Trust Accounts (“IOTA”) program, administered by the the board of governors of The Florida Bar, one-third by the board of directors of the Foundation, Foundation, are automatically entitled to membership. Membership also is available through and one-third by the Florida Supreme Court. Committees are appointed annually by the board of annual Foundation dues or through the Foundation's Fellows program. Both annual dues and An nual Report directors at the request of the president, and include Foundation directors, members of the bar Fellows payments are charitable contributions to the Foundation. The Foundation is governed generally, and the lay public. An executive committee appointed annually by the board meets by a 33-member board of directors, which meets quarterly. The board conducts its work through between meetings of the board. standing and ad hoc committees. The board comprises the officers of the Foundation, six directors 2006-2008

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s a lawyer and a judge, I have the Lifetime Achievement Award in Belle Glade, Riviera Beach and West seen many examples of the vital 2007 for 25 years of service to the Palm Beach who lacked access to legal A importance of The Florida Bar Foundation. It was my distinct representation to make end-of-life Foundation in ensuring that the state’s pleasure to present both John decisions. The Foundation also justice system is accessible to all. So Patterson and Jane Curran with provides annual matching funds for it was a thrill for me to have the the Foundation’s 2007 President’s the community service projects of opportunity to lead the dedicated Award for Excellence. Young Lawyers groups around the volunteers on the Foundation’s state as a way to foster and support board and work with the truly Perhaps the hardest fought victory of their public service. remarkable staff. 2007 was the restoration of funding for the Florida Access to Civil Legal One Florida attorney who has It is a testament to their careful Assistance Act (FACLA), the only worked tirelessly in his community stewardship that the Foundation direct support provided by the Florida is A. Hamilton Cooke, the lawyer earned this year the highest possible Legislature for legal aid. Following a recipient of the Foundation’s 2007 HON . J OHN W. THORNTON , J R ranking from Charity Navigator, year during which legislative funding Medal of Honor Award, who President which evaluates the financial efficiency for FACLA had been vetoed, several championed the legal needs of the poor The Florida Bar Foundation and effectiveness of nonprofits individuals worked diligently during during his years on The Florida Bar 2006-07 nationwide. I think all of us in the 2007 legislative session to secure Board of Governors and as president Florida’s legal community owe the $2.6 million in FACLA funding. Many and a member of the Foundation Foundation’s staff and board members thanks to former Bar and Foundation board. Cooke has also shown our sincerest gratitude. President Terry Russell, without whose tremendous devotion of his time and vision and tenacity FACLA wouldn’t legal talent to his local Habitat for In particular, I’d like to thank John exist; Bruce Blackwell, then Humanity affiliate, HabiJax. I also Patterson, whose contributions to the Foundation president-elect; Kent applaud Dr. Walter F. Lambert, whose board were exceptional. Through his Spuhler, executive director of Florida significant volunteer work for South example and commitment, John Legal Services; and Paul Doyle of the Florida children in foster care led strengthened support for the work of Foundation staff, who established to his selection as the non-lawyer our grantees among our colleagues in effective use of the funds under the recipient of the Medal of Honor the legal profession, and through his FACLA grant program. Award in 2007. work on the board, he provided a sound platform for direction and The Foundation not only provides Through such great role models, we oversight of our programs and funding for legal aid offices in every can all see the potential we possess to operations through the countless hours Florida county, but it also makes make a difference in our society for spent on a complete rewrite of our smaller grants to help support the those less fortunate. Our support of articles of incorporation and bylaws. public interest projects of minority and The Florida Bar Foundation allows us other voluntary bar associations under to do just that. Above all, I offer my heartfelt the Administration of Justice (AOJ) appreciation to Jane Curran, whose Voluntary Bar Association Community leadership and experience has made What’s Inside Service grant program. For example, The Florida Bar Foundation and a Foundation grant helped the Florida’s IOTA Program into a F. Malcolm Cunningham Sr. Bar Legal Assistance for the national model and who was Association in West Palm Beach JOHN W. T HORNTON , J R. Poor Grant Program 2 recognized by the Chief Justice of address the needs of senior citizens in President, 2006-07 How Legal Assistance the Florida Supreme Court with Grantees Have Helped This Year 3 Improved Technology for Legal Aid Programs 3 and direct resources to a project as Meanwhile, the Foundation funded profound as one whose goal is to and began implementing a statewide Disaster Legal Assistance, stamp out modern-day slavery in our case management system for legal aid Affordable Housing, state. Or as fundamental as shoring offices that will improve the process Statewide, Regional and up the woefully inadequate salaries of from intake to case closure and make Small Progam Grants 4 legal aid attorneys, whose law school the Foundation’s evaluation of grantee Children’s Legal Services 5 debt is often so onerous as to force performance more efficient for both them to seek better paying work the Foundation and the grantee. Fostering Public elsewhere. Or as important as Service Careers 6 ensuring that legal aid offices These are just a few examples of the Law Student Assistance 7 around the state have the funds and Foundation’s initiatives in 2007 in infrastructure needed to carry out addition to general support for legal Improvements in the their work efficiently and effectively. aid programs throughout Florida. Administration of Justice Grant Program 8-9 BRUCE B. B LACKWELL During my tenure as president, I would like to thank all of my fellow board members, as well as President The Florida Bar Foundation addressed Voluntary Bar Association the highly professional staff of the Community Service The Florida Bar Foundation these issues and many others through 2007-08 more than $33 million in grants. Foundation for their commitment Grant Program 10 to the organization’s mission of Legacy for Justice 10 We were able to direct $60,000 to providing greater access to justice. support the work of Florida State Among those who demonstrated Lifetime Giving Societies 11 potting the injustices suffered by Florida’s most vulnerable University’s Center for the extraordinary service were Judge Annual Giving Circles 11-12 Sresidents, addressing them Advancement of Human Rights to Emerson Thompson, our longest- effectively, and trying to make sure create a Florida strategic plan to serving current board member, and Fellows of The Florida Bar combat human trafficking. The plan Maria Henderson, a public member, Foundation 12-15 they don’t happen again. That’s a tall order. And it’s a fitting description involves various levels of federal and both of whom were recognized for Cy Pres Awards for the work done by the legal aid state law enforcement, affected state their service with the President’s Benefit Foundation 13 organizations supported by The executive branch agencies and Award for Excellence. Florida Bar Foundation. non-governmental agency service The Charitable Gift Annuity: providers tasked with serving the I would also like to express my The Gift That Gives Back 15 It was one of the absolute highlights needs of Florida trafficking victims. deepest gratitude to all the Florida attorneys who give of their time and Tribute and Memorial Gifts 16 of my legal career to serve as president of the Foundation and to be able to When a Foundation survey found that expertise to provide pro bono services. Lawyer’s Challenge see and support the good work being the median starting salary of a Florida They and our grantees have worked for Children 16 done all over Florida by dedicated legal aid attorney was only $38,500 diligently to provide a broad spectrum and yet most recent graduates were of legal services to the neediest A Just Legacy: The Paul Doyle attorneys who, whether legal aid facing more than $100,000 in law Floridians. Justice Center 16 staff or pro bono volunteers, advocate for the poor in accord school debt, the Foundation made The 2008 Steven M. with their obligation under the Oath a commitment to supplement the Goldstein Award 17 of Admission. salaries of legal aid attorneys statewide, while also insisting 2007-2008 Medal of Honor I can’t describe the satisfaction of that they be offered professional Awards 17 being in a position to join forces with development opportunities. BRUCE B. B LACKWELL Financial Information 18 my fellow Foundation board members President, 2007-08 2007 -2008 Annual Dinners 19 1 Legal Assistance for the Poor Grant Program

The Foundation’s Legal Assistance for the Poor (LAP) grant program, supported primarily by IOTA funds, provides general 28 Tallahassee 27 18 support and special purpose grants to a network Pensacola 12 13 21 Jacksonville of organizations providing free civil legal services to the poor. Together, this network provides at least basic access to the justice system for low- Gainesville income individuals and families residing in every 10 30 31 county in Florida. LAP grants also support legal assistance for specific client services and to serve 5 Daytona Beach specific client groups. 20 Sanford 29 Longwood General Support Grants Orlando 24 Grantee 2006-2007 2007-2008 Rockledge Lakeland 2 Tampa 14 17 1 Bay Area Legal Services $261,281 $295,185 1 Tampa Bartow St. Petersburg 2 Brevard County Legal Aid $91,389 $104,183 4 16 Rockledge 3 Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida $28,800 $32,832 Sarasota Ft. Lauderdale 22 West Palm Beach 4 Community Law Program $28,794 $35,500 25 St. Petersburg Ft. Myers 5 Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida $392,455 $461,899 819 Daytona Beach Ft. Lauderdale 323 6 Cuban American Bar Association $36,393 $63,488 Miami Pro Bono Project 6 7 9 11 15 Miami 26 7 Dade County Bar Association Legal Aid Society $395,465 $489,775 Miami 8 Florida Equal Justice Center $435,351 $496,300 Ft. Myers 9 Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center $684,299 $1,073,999 Miami 10 Florida Institutional Legal Services $485,463 $730,128 Gainesville Grantee 2006-2007 2007-2008 11 Florida Justice Institute $299,731 $484,193 Miami 22 Legal Aid of Manasota $28,794 $35,500 Sarasota 12 Florida Legal Services $2,087,766 $2,670,753 Tallahassee 23 Legal Aid Service of Broward County $998,014 $1,137,736 Ft. Lauderdale – Naples 13 Florida Legal Services $668,415 $761,993 Migrant Farmworker Justice Project 24 Legal Aid Society of the Orange County $592,528 $675,482 Tallahassee Bar Association Orlando 14 Florida Rural Legal Services $422,193 $555,400 Lakeland 25 Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County $392,286 $447,206 West Palm Beach 15 Guardianship Program of Dade County $72,786 $81,922 Miami 26 Legal Services of Greater Miami $711,673 $810,252 Miami 16 Gulfcoast Legal Services $1,182,915 $1,345,848 St. Petersburg 27 Legal Services of North Florida $283,348 $318,017 Tallahassee 17 Heart of Florida Legal Aid Society $124,694 $142,151 Bartow 28 Northwest Florida Legal Services $493,593 $557,696 Pensacola 18 Jacksonville Area Legal Aid $926,452 $1,056,155 Jacksonville 29 Seminole County Bar Association $68,594 $78,197 Legal Aid Society 19 Lee County Legal Aid Society $62,453 $71,196 Longwood Ft. Myers 30 Southern Legal Counsel $258,232 $396,984 20 Legal Advocacy Center of Central Florida $682,155 $763,157 Gainesville Sanford 31 Three Rivers Legal Services $72,442 $82,584 21 Legal Aid Foundation of the $38,879 $54,322 Gainesville Tallahassee Bar Association Tallahassee Total $13,307,633 $16,310,033

One-Time Grants I Providing advice and counsel through clinics I Representing children in dependency proceedings In addition to general support grants, the Foundation provided one-time grants I Co-counseling cases with legal aid attorneys in housing and consumer law to assist grantees in addressing needs that are not ongoing or recurring as a part I Assisting particularly vulnerable clients, such as the elderly, the disabled and of their operations, such as technology upgrades, improved telephone systems, the mentally ill office furniture and other improvements. In 2007, the Foundation issued one-time grants totaling $861,500 to 29 legal aid organizations, and in 2008, Not all pro bono work has to involve direct representation of clients. it issued grants totaling $583,084 to 32 legal aid organizations. For example, pro bono attorneys can also: Foundation Support for Pro Bono Services I Provide substantive law and skills training to legal aid attorneys by Members of The Florida Bar I Serve as mentors to less experienced legal aid attorneys I Do client intake Members of The Florida Bar donated their time through organized pro bono I Participate in community legal education programs such as being a panelist programs in 2007 to handle more than 15,000 cases, which represented at a seminar on domestic violence or speaking to the elderly about protection 14 percent of all cases closed by Foundation legal aid grantees. Foundation of their homesteads funds support the intake and referral of cases to pro bono volunteer attorneys and provide such volunteers with backup support and training. There is a wide The benefits of involving members of The Florida Bar in serving the legal needs variety of pro bono service opportunities for Florida attorneys, including: of the poor extend well beyond the positive outcomes for individual clients because attorneys make things happen. When talent and commitment are I Handling cases in family law, housing matters, immigration, etc. applied to removing the legal barriers poor people face in stabilizing their lives, I Transactional attorneys helping community groups develop affordable housing entire communities benefit.

2 How Legal Assistance Grantees Have Helped This Year

Family Matters TOTA L: 103,482 Cases A 63-year-old woman had signed Charles out of a nursing home and 35,041 (34%) transferred thousands of dollars from Housing – 18% his bank account to her own. She also “Maria,” a 19-year-old mother, had 18,356 cases took him to an attorney’s office to been battered by her husband, who sign over ownership of his home. then abandoned her and took the Family 34% couple’s 5-month-old baby girl. 35,041 cases The woman was arrested and A domestic violence shelter referred Individual Rights – 13% convicted by a jury, and Charles’ pro Maria, a nursing mother who had 14,073 cases bono attorney won a civil suit to been separated from her baby for cancel the property transfer that three weeks, to Legal Aid. Charles had signed. He then continued working to recoup the money that A pro bono attorney stepped in to was stolen. represent Maria in a hearing to get a Consumer – 10% 10,077 cases protection injunction against her — Legal Aid of Manasota, husband. At a hearing held three days Income Maintenance – 9% Bradenton before Christmas, the judge ordered 9,187 cases Other* – 16% that the infant be returned to Maria Income Maintenance at the sheriff’s department at 3 p.m. *Includes employment, health, ch ildren, education, etc. Matters that day. 9,187 (9%) Maria and her daughter were reunited in time for the child’s first Christmas. Legal Aid investigated the housing National Police, who demanded “Phyllis,” a middle-aged housewife The pro bono attorney went on to authority’s findings and discovered money from him and other fisher boys who had terminal breast cancer and represent Maria at a child support that the man with the poor rental to “use the ocean” to fish. whose husband was disabled, was hearing, where she was able to history was not James, but another denied Social Security benefits because The police burned Jimmy’s boat and obtain temporary support for man with the same name. of an insufficient earnings record. herself and her daughter. even shot at him and the other fisher The housing authority reversed the boys. The harassment worsened Her next best hope was to file a — Legal Aid of Manasota, denial for public housing, but there after the boys banned together and claim for Supplemental Security Sarasota was one more obstacle in James’ way. publicized the police harassment on Income that would have provided With the end of his apartment lease a local radio station. reduced cash benefits. However, she Housing Matters drawing near, James was on a long was denied again after the Social Jimmy escaped to the United States, waiting list to receive housing. Security Administration deemed that 18 ,356 (18%) knowing he would be forced to be a her condition was not severe enough Legal Aid communicated with the head “restavek,” a street child worker, if he to qualify. Her legal aid attorney “James,” an elderly and disabled man, of the housing authority about James’ stayed in Haiti. His legal aid attorney appealed the denial, and her case was living in a downtown apartment disabilities, and he was then moved represented him in a 2004 asylum case was sent for reconsideration. complex when he got a letter from into a senior citizen public housing that was initially denied. But Jimmy management that the apartments unit where his permanent housing was granted asylum in January 2007 Realizing that Phyllis didn’t have would be converted to condominiums. needs were finally met. after an expert witness testified on time to wait while her case languished in the Division of Disability The landlord said James had to vacate the perils faced by street child workers — Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Determination, her attorney showed his home in December, rather than in in Haiti. Jacksonville relentless effort and was able to obtain February of the following year when — Florida Immigrant Advocacy for her an award of $603 a month, his lease ended. Legal Aid found the Individual Rights Matters Center, Miami plus a lump sum retroactive benefit landlord’s notice was improper and of more than $9,000. premature, and threatened to take the 14 ,073 (13%) Consumer Matters landlord to court if James wasn’t Phyllis credited her legal aid attorney Born in Haiti, “Jimmy” became an allowed to remain at the apartment 10 ,077 (10%) with helping her secure the resources orphan at age 12 after his mother died while he sought alternative housing. to put her final days in order so that and his father abandoned him. To A Manatee County lawyer took a she and her husband would not have Meanwhile, James had applied for support himself and his grandmother, pro bono case representing “Charles,” to face extreme financial strain along public housing with the Jacksonville Jimmy worked 18-hour days as a a 94-year-old man who had been with their physical and emotional Housing Authority, but was soon fisher boy, but his meager earnings swindled out of his home and more suffering. denied after the housing authority made him a target for the Haitian than $20,000, leaving him with determined he had a poor rental history. almost nothing. — Legal Services of North Florida, Tallahassee

Improved Technology for Legal Aid Programs

he Foundation undertook an assessment of the technology resources and needs of legal aid programs in Florida in 2006-2007. This assessment T confirmed that the efficiency and effectiveness of many legal aid programs could be enhanced considerably by better law firm technology. Working closely with its legal aid grantees, the Foundation set aside $2.3 million in IOTA funds to purchase and implement a uniform Internet-based case management system for each program. Once the two-year project is complete in mid-2009, programs will be able to incorporate more accountability tools, improve the capacity and quality of their advocacy services, respond more accurately to information requests from their funding organizations, and communicate better among each other.

3 Disaster Legal Assistance Grant Program

fter a record-breaking hurricane season in 2004, Foundation leadership began a comprehensive plan to address the needs of grantees A in the event of natural disasters. The Foundation began providing annual training for grantees to improve their disaster plans and published a Legal Assistance Disaster Manual for grantee use. The Foundation also awards Disaster Legal Assistance Grants to Foundation-funded legal aid programs to restore and expand service capacity and to respond to increased legal needs of clients due to disasters.

Grantee 2006-2007 2007-2008

Florida Equal Justice Center $120,000 $30,000 Ft. Myers

Florida Legal Services $10,000 Tallahassee

Legal Aid Service of Broward County $50,000 Ft. Lauderdale

Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County $10,000 West Palm Beach

Legal Services of Greater Miami $26,000 Miami

Legal Services of North Florida $62,000 $27,000 Tallahassee Total $278,000 $57,000

Statewide Legal Assistance Statewide Special Project Special Needs Grants Grants to Florida Legal Services hese grants are designed to strengthen the services provided by statewide legal assistance programs under Florida’s Legal Services State he following grants were made to support initiatives developed T Plan. Under the State Plan, these programs provide critical assistance T by Florida Legal Services on behalf of the legal aid community. to local legal aid programs and their clients, particularly in the areas of legislative and administrative advocacy. They also provide mentoring to local Project 2007 2008 legal aid program advocates, undertake important impact litigation, and provide leadership and advocacy in assisting special needs populations, such The Statewide Web Site $150,000 $150,000 as institutionalized persons, farmworkers, children and immigrants. Internet-based resources provided to Foundation-funded legal aid and legal services advocates, volunteer attorneys who provide pro bono assistance to Grantee 2007 Grant Award* the poor, and members of the client community who need access to self-help Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center $170,000 legal information and referrals to Foundation grantee organizations. Miami Florida Institutional Legal Services $155,000 The Statewide Litigation Fund $140,000 $140,000 Gainesville A fund created to provide supplementary litigation expenses for impact cases Florida Justice Institute $125,000 to statewide grantees and local legal aid programs. Miami

Florida Legal Services $255,000 The Statewide Pro Bono Project $75,000 $100,000 Tallahassee Provides staff support for the work of Florida’s Standing Committee on Pro Florida Rural Legal Services $65,000 Bono Legal Services. Half of these grant funds come from The Florida Bar. Lakeland

Southern Legal Counsel $90,000 The Statewide Language Line Project $75,000 $50,000 Gainesville Total $860,000 Provides financial support for Foundation general support grantees’ usage of language translation services in serving non-English speaking clients. * In 2008, these grants were included in Legal Assistance for the Poor general support.

REGIONAL GRANTS Small Program Affordable Housing Grants

The Foundation helps its Legal Aid Special Needs he Foundation has sought grantees address significant unmet Grants to make an impact on the client needs on a regional level Taffordable housing crisis for The purpose of this competitive through grants that support low-income individuals and families grant program is to recognize and collaborative efforts by Foundation through the implementation of a support small legal assistance grantees. These special regional statewide-regional affordable programs with a long history of the projects address issues such as housing project. The goal of the provision of legal representation to employment benefits, access to project is to undertake systemic special needs clients. In 2006-07, health care, pro bono support, advocacy to prevent the loss of the Colombian American Service affordable housing units and to facilitate the development of new affordable housing and immigration. In Association and the HIV, Education housing units. Grants support multi-form legal advocacy, including legislative 2006-07, these regional grants and Law Project (HELP) Inc. advocacy, administrative advocacy, public policy advocacy and litigation on a totaled $786,340; in 2007-08, received a total of $120,000, and in statewide and local level. In 2006-07, the Foundation provided $606,000 in they totaled $1,028,000. 2007-08 they received $132,000. affordable housing grants to four regional projects, as well as a $88,750 grant to Florida Legal Services for its work on affordable housing. In 2007-08, six regional grantees received a total of $1,019,000 in affordable housing grants, and Florida Legal Services was awarded $295,000.

4 Children’s Legal Services Grant Awards

Grantee 2006-2007 2007-2008 Grantee 2006-2007 2007-2008

Bay Area Legal Services $120,000 $160,000 Gulfcoast Legal Services $35,000 $70,000 Tampa St.Petersburg L. David Shear Children’s Law Center Children’s Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Project/Juvenile Detention Project Brevard County Legal Aid $40,000 $50,000 Rockledge Jacksonville Area Legal Aid $60,000 $80,000 Children’s Advocacy Project (2006-2007) Jacksonville Independent Living Project (2007-2008) Crisis in Duval Foster Care Education Systems Project Community Law Program $35,000 $37,500 Lawyers for Children America $75,000 $100,000 St. Petersburg Miami Transitioning Dependent Youth Project Teen Legal Collaborative (Joint project with Dade County Bar Association Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida $120,000 $170,000 Legal Aid Society) Daytona Beach Special Education Advocacy Project (2006-2007) Lawyers for Children America $35,000 $70,000 The Child Advocacy Project (2007-2008) Miami Miami Youth S.H.I.N.E.* Project Dade County Bar Association Legal Aid Society $75,000 $100,000 *Striving High for Independence and Empowerment Miami Teen Legal Collaborative Legal Aid Service of Broward County $100,000 $135,000 (Joint project with Lawyers for Children America) Ft. Lauderdale Children’s Advocacy Program – Florida’s Children First $240,000 $252,000 Education Legal Rights Project, Broward and Collier Coral Springs Children’s Rights Project (2006-2007) Legal Aid Society of the $105,000 $134,000 Florida’s Children First Children’s Systemic Orange County Bar Association Initiatives (2007-2008) Orlando Guardian Ad Litem Project Florida Equal Justice Center $100,000 $110,000 Ft. Myers Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County $78,000 $140,000 Education Access Project (2006-2007) West Palm Beach Education Services Project (2007-2008) Children’s Educational Advocacy Law Project Florida Institutional Legal Services $45,000 $95,000 Legal Services of Greater Miami $53,000 $56,600 Gainesville Miami Children in Custody Project Special Education Advocacy Project Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center $75,000 $120,000 Legal Services of North Florida $90,000 $116,000 Miami Tallahassee FIAC’s Children’s Legal Project Children’s Legal Representation Project Florida Legal Services $125,000 $155,000 Southern Legal Counsel $130,000 $150,000 Tallahassee Gainesville Children’s Statewide Litigation and Education Advocacy Project Policy Advocacy Project University of Miami School of Law $115,000 $133,000 Florida International University College of Law $75,000 $110,000 Miami Miami Statewide Foster Children’s Advocacy Project Children’s Education Advocacy Clinic Florida State University College of Law $120,000 $155,000 Total $2,046,000 $2,699,100 Children’s Advocacy Center Tallahassee Health Care Access/Special Education Project

Success Stories Children’s “Devon” was on the brink of dropping out of high school. Legal Services The 20-year-old student failed the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test and was unable to bring up his grade point Grant Program average to graduate. Upon investigation, a legal aid attorney found the Orange County Public Schools dismissed Devon from speech and ince 1999, The Florida Bar Foundation has language services years ago. The attorney requested the school district pay for an independent educational evaluation, which funded special annual grants for legal resulted in Devon going to language therapy three times a week. S assistance to children. Gifts from attorneys Thanks to the intervention of his legal aid attorney, Devon is to the Foundation from the Lawyers’ Challenge for now a high school graduate. Children on the annual Florida Bar Fee Statement Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Orlando help support these grants, along with proceeds from the Kids Deserve Justice license plate A 1998 border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia started a initiative. The Foundation’s priorities for its war and caused 17-year-old “Tsige” and her family, Eritrean emigrants, to be kicked out of Ethiopia. Children’s Legal Services Grant Program include Tsige’s father tried to hide his family, particularly his sons who representation of foster care children and would be forced to join the Eritrean military, but the father was access to special education, as well as medical, kidnapped, jailed, tortured and died shortly after his release. developmental and mental health services that are Eventually, the Eritrean military found Tsige and her brothers. Two of her brothers died in the military’s training camp, and required under law. Another goal is to create and Tsige was raped by a military supervisor. energize a statewide network of children’s legal She eventually escaped by camelback through the Sudan and services providers who can support the thousands made a journey to the United States with church members. of Florida attorneys involved in guardian ad litem Legal Aid successfully represented Tsige in her claim for asylum. and other children’s legal services projects. Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Miami

5 Fostering Public Service Careers

The Florida Bar Foundation offers a number of programs through its Legal Assistance to the Poor Grant Program to encourage law school graduates to choose and remain in public interest careers. This includes providing matching funds for Equal Justice Works Fellows who spend two years working on public service projects, as well as providing loan repayment assistance and salary supplementation to Florida’s dedicated legal aid attorneys. Equal Justice Works Fellowship Program

Equal Justice Works Fellowships Class of 2008 -2010

Host Legal Aid Program Fellow Project

Coast to Coast Legal Aid Lisa Morrill-Wintz Provide mobile education, outreach and Society of South Florida legal representation to teens in the areas of family law (child support, custody, visitation, benefits, etc.) and dating, domestic, repeat and sexual violence.

Florida Immigrant Laura Chilcutt Provide holistic legal representation Advocacy Center to victims of human trafficking throughout Florida via agency training and direct representation.

Florida Institutional Katherine DeBriere Prevent the unnecessary incarceration and Legal Services institutionalization of individuals with mental retardation and developmental disabilities through education, resources ince 1999, the Foundation and its Florida funding partners have and direct advocacy. provided matching funds for 54 Florida Equal Justice Works Fellows. Equal Justice Works Fellowships SFellows have designed and led legal assistance projects in affordable Class of 2007 -2009 housing, welfare to work, domestic violence, special education for disabled Fellow Project children, homelessness, immigration, prisoner rights, environmental practice Host Legal Aid Program and family preservation. These two-year public interest fellowships are Florida Institutional Steckley Lee Advocate and litigate on behalf of Legal Services ex-offenders re-entering society by sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Equal Justice Works. The Fellows challenging complicated state and local are hosted by Foundation-funded legal assistance organizations. In addition rules placing restrictions on where they may live, work and travel. to addressing the civil legal needs of the poor in Florida, the Equal Justice Works Fellowship Program enriches Florida’s legal assistance community Gulfcoast Legal Services Mariam Ahmedani Provide specialized legal services, education and advocacy on behalf of through the enthusiasm of individual Fellows who renew and enliven a host undocumented immigrant children who program’s legal advocacy. In 2007-2008, the Foundation approved matching are victims of abuse. funds for three Fellows in the Class of 2008-2010 and was joined by its Jacksonville Area Ariel Patterson Provide comprehensive credit Legal Aid counseling to low-income consumers funding partners: the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; the law firm in the greater Jacksonville area. of Greenberg Traurig; and The Florida Bar. The previous year, three Fellows were funded also.

Legal Aid Attorney Salary Supplement Law School Loan n 2007, the recommendations of the Foundation released study, The Florida Bar Repayment I the results of an Foundation developed a in-depth study titled, salary supplementation Assistance Program “The Quest for the Best: grant program to increase Attorney Recruitment staff attorneys’ starting and Retention Challenges salaries beginning Jan. 1, he majority of law students today graduate for Florida Civil Legal 2008 to a minimum of with educational debt of more than $100,000. Aid.” Eighty-eight $43,500, and to a T The Foundation’s 2007 “Quest for the Best” percent of the state’s legal minimum of $46,000 study found that one of the top three reasons aid attorneys participated by Jan. 1, 2010. It also attorneys were leaving public service careers in the study through established goals that was “financial pressure due to student loans.” Web-based surveys, attorneys with three The study noted that salary increases alone will not personal and telephone interviews and focus years, six years and 10 years of experience be enough to deal adequately with the burden of groups. The study found that the median starting would be earning a minimum of $50,000, $60,000 debt payments on legal aid attorneys. In response, salary for a licensed attorney in a Florida legal aid and $70,000, respectively, by 2010. To enable the Foundation strengthened its Law School Loan program was $38,500 and that staff attorneys do legal aid programs to implement these salary Repayment Assistance Program, which now pays not reach a median salary of $50,000 until nine improvements, along with other professional legal aid attorneys up to 80 percent of their annual years after law school graduation. Common development enhancements recommended by need-based law school debt for up to eight years. measures of a middle class lifestyle, such as home the study, the Foundation initiated a Salary Annual payments are capped at $7,500 and are in ownership, proved beyond the reach of legal aid Supplementation Grant Program. In 2007-2008, the form of one-year loans forgiven annually for attorneys in spite of their highly specialized and the program made grants totaling just under $4 attorneys who remain employed full-time at a marketable skills. The study also found that million to 29 legal aid programs. These grants also Foundation legal assistance grantee for the full “financial pressure due to low salary” was provided some matching funds to enable legal aid 12-month period. In 2007-08, the Foundation the number one reason legal aid attorneys programs to start or improve retirement benefit committed $877,564 to the program for benefits to left their jobs. In accordance with the plans for all of their employees. 175 staff legal aid attorneys.

6 Law Student Assistance Grant Program

oundation Law Student Assistance grant programs F promote the concept of public service through financial assistance to eligible students at accredited law schools. Summer Fellows Grant Program

In cooperation with accredited law schools, the Foundation administers an 11-week summer fellowship program for first- and second-year law students at Foundation-funded legal assistance programs in Florida. The Foundation awarded $230,000 in 2007 and $300,000 in 2008 to support the legal services Summer Fellows.

Forty law students from all 10 of Florida’s law schools and seven out- Comments of 2008 Summer Fellows of-state schools participated as 2008 summer fellows, having been selected “ Oftentimes, public interest professionals and pro bono advocates do from 266 applicants. The previous not recognize or understand the difference they are making in someone's life. year, 34 Summer Fellows participated. During both years, the Florida Legal I experienced first-hand the difference that I was making through this fellowship Aid Project Directors’ Association opportunity. My efforts will not cease simply because this fellowship has. sponsored a Terry Russell Summer ” Fellow to honor Terry Russell, “ I still want to be a public interest attorney, but now more who has made significant pro bono contributions to the delivery of legal than ever. This summer made me really realize that I want to services for the poor in Florida. dedicate my career to serving the indigent population. In 2007, the Florida Lawyers’ ” Legal Insurance Corporation also “ After seeing how rewarding this work really is, I am looking forward sponsored a Summer Fellow. to the chance to use my law degree to help those who need it the most. ” Law School Civil Clinic Public Service Fellows Program Grant Program

The Florida Bar Foundation helps hrough the Public Service Fellows Program, students at accredited Florida law schools complete internships at support law school civil clinics in an legal aid offices, guardian ad litem programs and public defender offices, as well as human rights and other T public service agencies. The program seeks to promote pro bono legal services by members of the legal effort to: profession, to provide law students with direct involvement in public service activities and to promote the concept • Involve law students in the provision of public service legal work on law school campuses. The grants are awarded to law schools, which distribute the of civil legal assistance to the poor; funds to students. Nearly 90 students participated in the 2007-2008 Public Service Fellows Program and contributed • Provide an in-depth experience in an estimated 23,300 hours of direct public service. The previous year, 80 students contributed more than 17,100 representing the poor and working hours. Foundation funding for the program was $299,900 in 2007 and $321,370 in 2008. with individual clients and client groups in civil matters; • Encourage law students to pursue public interest careers representing Foundation Ranks Among State’s Top Three Charities the poor; and • Promote a commitment to pro or the second year in a row, The Florida Bar of approval that ensures donors that their donations are bono representation of the poor. Foundation ranked among the top three charities being used effectively. Cases handled through the clinics are F in Florida, according to Charity Navigator, an “Receiving four out of a possible four stars indicates predominantly in the areas of family organization that evaluates nonprofits across the nation. law, children’s legal services, homeless that your organization excels, as compared to other advocacy, public benefits (food “We are committed to being good stewards of the funds charities in America, in successfully managing the stamps, Medicaid), immigration, we receive,” said Florida Bar finances of your organization community outreach and education. Foundation President in an efficient and effective The Foundation generally awards Kathleen McLeroy. “We feel manner,” said Kaitlin Woolf, $25,000 a year to support civil law this recognition is added program analyst with clinics at the following law schools: reassurance to our donors.” Charity Navigator. Barry University, Florida A&M The Foundation, the only organization in Florida that Charity Navigator issues ratings from zero to four University, Florida International funds civil legal services for the poor statewide, received stars based on reviews of the financial health of University, Florida State University, its second consecutive four-star rating, the highest rating nonprofit organizations, including their efficiency and Nova Southeastern University, possible, for the 2007 fiscal year. long-term stability. St. Thomas University, Stetson The Foundation also tied for No. 1 in the nation among “This consistency in your rating is an exceptional feat, University, the University of Florida charities in the advocacy category for nonprofits, especially given the economic challenges many charities and the University of Miami. according to Charity Navigator. The top rating is a seal have had to face in the last year,” Woolf said.

7 Improvements in the Administration of Justice Grant Program

Grantmaking Philosophy The Florida Bar $7,500 A goal of The Florida Bar Foundation is to focus grants in areas where the funding Reporting on the Courts and the Law: A Workshop for Journalists can have a measurable impact. Toward that end, the Foundation concentrates grants Tallahassee for improvements in the administration of justice in five areas, with emphasis on how To educate journalists in the basics of reporting on the law and the court the courts can operate more effectively and expeditiously. system, including The Florida Bar attorney disciplinary process, and to increase their awareness of the importance of the judiciary as a co-equal Areas of Funding branch of government with the legislative and executive branches. I Improvement in the operation and management of the court system; I Improvement and reform of the criminal, civil and juvenile justice systems; The Florida Bar Criminal Law Section $250,000 I Public education and understanding about the law, including law-related education; Gerald Bennett Prosecutor/Public Defender Trial Training Seminar I Promotion and support for public interest legal representation; and Tallahassee I Promotion and support for voluntary bar association-sponsored Contribution to the endowment established at the University of Florida community-service initiatives. Foundation to support the annual Gerald Bennett Prosecutor/Public Defender Trial Training Seminar. Support includes an outright grant of $150,000 The Foundation occasionally considers and seeks out projects in other subject areas plus an additional $100,000 if matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis. related to improving the administration of justice in Florida. The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division $40,000 Funding Criteria Matching Funds for Affiliate Public Service Project Awards Preference generally will be given to: Tallahassee I Applicants seeking start-up funds or seed money over a one- or two-year period; I Programs with demonstration value or replication potential; and To provide matching funds for the 2007 ($15,000) and 2008 I Requests for matching funds. ($25,000) Young Lawyers Affiliate Public Service Project Awards.

AOJ typically does not fund direct service programs (e.g., drug treatment or counseling), Florida Education Fund $99,737 replicas of established programs, local community groups, or programs for which there Florida Minority Bar Preparation Project is a governmental responsibility to provide funding and continuing program support. Tampa To help develop a program to pay tuition for the Bar review course for minority law school graduates with demonstrated financial need who have registered to take The Florida Bar examination. 2006-2007 Grant Awards Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center $4,950 Grantee Award On Their Own: Second Annual Conference on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida $40,000 Miami PATH Project To provide partial support for FIAC to host the second national conference Miami on unaccompanied immigrant children in Miami on May 17-19, 2007. To provide funds to train attorneys to represent teens under Florida’s parental involvement law. Florida Law Related Education Association Inc. $204,000 Advancing the Cause and Administration of Justice Tallahassee Bay Area Legal Services Inc. $14,500 To support a broad range of public education programs and activities Bankruptcy Pro Se Assistance Project to advance the cause of the administration of justice. Tampa To provide up-to-date legal information and assistance to pro se consumer Florida Law Related Education Association Inc. $40,000 bankruptcy filers who cannot afford to hire an attorney and do not qualify The Justice Teaching Institute for legal aid or pro bono assistance with the goal of reducing the number Tallahassee of pro se cases dismissed due to filing deficiencies. To provide funds to continue and expand the training of 30 teachers by judges and attorneys, as part of the Florida Supreme Court’s Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law $7,500 Justice Teaching Institute. New York To fund planning grant for proposed initiative on the issue of criminal fees Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights $85,000 and fines in Florida. Human Rights/Immigration Law Project Tallahassee Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law $155,216 As partial support for the establishment of a Human Rights Immigration Legal Financial Obligations Project Law Project clinic. New York To provide funding to investigate fees and fines policies in the criminal Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights $218,750 justice system in Florida and to develop a work plan to raise the profile and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida of Legal Financial Obligation policies, and to advocate for reform. Rethinking the Restoration of Civil Rights in Florida Tallahassee/Miami Children’s Campaign Inc. $98,250 Third-year funding to identify and minimize barriers to voting and other Justice for Girls: Florida’s Juvenile Justice Reform Initiative aspects of citizenship for non-incarcerated citizens with a prior felony Tallahassee conviction through research, public policy advocacy, individual case To strengthen the outreach and public education efforts of a previously advocacy, and development of training materials. funded two-year project spearheading systemic reform in the care and treatment of girls in Florida’s Juvenile Justice System. Florida Supreme Court Historical Society $35,000 Tallahassee Disability Independence Group $20,000 To provide general support of the Society’s administrative expenses Court House Accessibility Project ($25,000) and a matching grant to secure a private donation ($10,000). Coral Gables To provide information and technical assistance consulting services Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates $50,000 to the Office of the State Courts Administrator’s Courthouse Justice by the People Project Accessibility Initiative. Jacksonville To fund Florida activities in a Web-based, four-lesson curriculum that The Florida Bar $10,000 teaches young people the history, the process and the value of trial by jury. Committee on Fairness and Diversity Tallahassee Innocence Project of Florida Inc. $275,825 To provide funds to be used to help the committee develop a Tallahassee report for delivery to the Supreme Court. To identify and free innocent inmates from Florida’s prisons through DNA testing. The Florida Bar $24,000 Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc. $30,000 Joint Conference: Access to Appellate Justice Institute Evaluation of the Foster Care Project of the Legal Aid Society Tallahassee of Palm Beach County To provide funds for consulting support to establish the policies and West Palm Beach procedures to institutionalize this collaborative forum as an annual event. To provide partial support for an evaluation by the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago of the impact of the legal services provided by Legal Aid’s The Florida Bar $127,000 Foster Children’s Project on achieving permanency for foster children; to develop an Justice Teaching understanding of the program elements most instrumental to the Foster Care Project’s Tallahassee services in order to replicate the program in other jurisdictions, including other legal To provide funding for a statewide initiative that seeks to pair a legal aid programs in Florida; and to provide needed documentation of impact of the professional with every school in Florida in order to provide Foster Children's Project to potential replication funders. continuous law-related education to Florida's youth.

8 Improvements in the Administration of Justice Grant Program

Office of the State Courts Administrator $39,000 The Florida Bar Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism $100,000 Criminal Justice and Mental Health Special Project Tallahassee Tallahassee To support a planning process for the transition of the Center’s functions to To implement a Special Order of the Florida Supreme Court assigning a Miami-Dade a comprehensive approach to promoting the professionalism of Florida lawyers. Circuit Judge to act as a Special Advisor to the Supreme Court dealing with mental health issues of criminal defendants. The Project is a collaboration between Florida Education Fund $101,460 the Courts and the Secretary of the Department of Children and Families. Florida Minority Bar Preparation Project Tampa Orange County Bar Association $5,000 To pay tuition for the Bar review course for minority law school graduates with Modest Means Program demonstrated financial need who have registered to take The Florida Bar examination. Orlando To conduct additional marketing and outreach in the community for the Florida Law Related Education Association $28,000 Modest Means Project. Justice Teaching Institute Tallahassee The Sixth Judicial Circuit $5,000 Investing in Florida Teachers – A Model Professional Development Program Juror Appreciation Billboards on the Courts and the Judiciary. St. Petersburg To improve the image of jury service by thanking those who have served and Florida Law Related Education Association $105,060 raising the awareness of the importance of jury service with a message appearing Leadership for Justice on approximately 50 billboards throughout Pasco and Pinellas counties. Tallahassee To support the development and expansion of model civic and law-related University of West Florida $1,000 education programs in Florida and to build upon the organizational and Mock Trial Courtroom programmatic future of the Florida Law Related Education Association. Pensacola To assist in turning an existing classroom into a state-of-the-art courtroom Florida Partners in Crisis Inc. $150,000 for use by the University of West Florida and area high school mock trial teams, Florida Partners in Crisis Inc. Advocacy UWF and high school classes and debate teams, criminal justice practitioners, Orlando the legal community, and area human service agencies. To provide funds for a two-year project to strengthen the infrastructure of FPIC; strengthen the roles and responsibilities of the board of directors, YWCA of Greater Miami-Dade Inc. $60,000 board of trustees and members; increase the criminal and juvenile justice Court Care: A Better Place to Be membership of the organization for local and state advocacy; and create Miami a long-term financial sustainability plan. To expand their child-care program into the Miami-Dade Criminal Courts. The program would serve children brought into the criminal court as victims or Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights $92,750 witnesses or because their parents or caregivers do not have child-care options. and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida Rethinking Restoration of Civil Rights in Florida Total $1,947 ,228 Tallahassee/Miami For advocacy to reform Florida's legal system, which denies automatic 2007-2008 Grant Awards restoration of civil rights for convicted felons upon completion of their sentences, and to assist individuals in applying for restoration of their Grantee Award civil rights under Florida's executive clemency process.

Barry University School of Law $5,000 Florida State University Center for Advancement of Human Rights $85,000 Juvenile Justice Center's Trial Skills Training Second-Year Funding of Human Rights/Immigration Rights Law Clinic Program for Florida Juvenile Defenders Tallahassee Orlando To support a full-time attorney to provide pro bono legal assistance and For partial scholarships of up to 50 percent of the cost of juvenile advocacy in immigration matters in Florida, including supervision of public defenders to attend a two-day trial skills training. graduate students in the development of immigration cases and advocacy.

Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law $175,000 Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights $58,500 Continuation of Florida Criminal Justice System Legal Financial Advancing the Findings and Recommendations of the American Obligations Project Bar Association/Florida Death Penalty Assessment Team Report New York Tallahassee To support the Brennan Center’s Legal Financial Obligations Project To provide funds to support a one-year project intended to address a wide in Florida, including investigation and reform of the fees and fines range of issues and problems that undermine the fairness and accuracy of Florida’s policies in the criminal justice system in Florida. death penalty process and thereby improve the administration of justice in Florida by advancing the findings and recommendations of the ABA/Florida Death Penalty Brevard County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division $1,000 Assessment Team report (September 2006). Provision of Basic Needs Items for Serene Harbor Domestic Violence Shelter Melbourne Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights $60,000 To purchase toiletries, clothing, bedding and related items for families Human Trafficking seeking refuge at Serene Harbor Domestic Violence Shelter. Tallahassee To create a Florida Strategic Plan to Combat Human Trafficking involving Clearwater Bar Association Young Lawyers Division $1,000 various levels of federal and state law enforcement, affected state executive The Latest Objection, A Young Lawyers Essay Contest branch agencies and non-governmental agency service providers tasked with Clearwater serving the needs of Florida trafficking victims.

Collins Center for Public Policy $95,000 Innocence Project of Florida $330,000 Miami Tallahassee To support the development and dissemination of non-partisan, For general support of a project to identify and free innocent objective and independent analyses of the November 2008 proposed inmates in Florida’s prisons through DNA testing. amendments to the Florida Constitution. Jacksonville Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division $6,000 Dade County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division $1,000 Afternoon in the Courthouse/DUI Project/Legal Aid Awareness Project Mock Trial High School Competition Miami Marion County Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division $1,000 Marion County Great Debate The Florida Bar $15,000 Reporting on the Courts and the Law: Orange County Bar Association $10,000 A Workshop for Journalists (2007 –$7,500; 200 8–$7,500) Modest Means Program Tallahassee Orlando To educate journalists in the basics of reporting on the law and the court For continued development of a model program for persons system, including The Florida Bar attorney disciplinary process, and to of modest means to pay a reduced fee for legal services. increase their awareness of the importance of the judiciary as a co-equal branch of government with the legislative and executive branches. Tampa Bay Hispanic Bar Association $5,000 1st Annual Diversity Picnic The Florida Bar $67,443 Tampa The Pro Se Appellate Handbook: Representing Yourself on Appeal To provide funds for a Diversity Picnic at the downtown Tampa campus Tallahassee of Stetson Law School for minority law school students from all laws To provide funds to translate the Pro Se Appellate Handbook into Spanish and schools in Florida. Creole and to print and disseminate it (including in English) to all circuit court libraries, all Florida prisons, legal aid offices in Florida and all law schools in the state, and to provide an ADA compliant Web site version. Total $1,493 ,213

9 Voluntary Bar Association Community Service Grant Program

The Voluntary Bar Association Community Service Grant Program — funded out Palm Beach County Bar Association $3,500 of the improvements in the Administration of Justice Grant Program — is an West Palm Beach ongoing program of one-time grants of up to $5,000 each awarded to voluntary bar Mediation Week: Poster Contest and Mediation Video associations in Florida to promote new or significant improvement in existing charitable, community-service projects. The goals of the Voluntary Bar Association South Palm Beach County FAWL $2,000 Community Service Grant Program are: Delray Domestic Violence Restraining Order Project I To increase community service by Florida’s legal profession through voluntary bar association initiatives; and Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association $4,000 I To serve as a readily accessible source of funding for a full range of Tampa voluntary bar association charitable, community-service projects. CARE – Credit Abuse Resistance Education, Student Outreach Program 2006-2007 Grant Awards Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association $4,685 Grantee Award Tampa Re-entry life skills training for federal felons Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida $3,000 Miami Volusia County Bar Association $1,500 CARE – Credit Abuse Resistance Education, Student Outreach Program Daytona Beach Rules and Procedures of Small Claims Court educational pamphlet Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers $1,000 Orlando Courthouse child care for families with official court business Total $50 ,000

Clay County Bar Association Inc. $1,000 Orange Park 2007-2008 Grant Awards Clay County Victim Service Center Grantee Award Collier County Women’s Bar Association $3,500 Naples F. Malcolm Cunningham Sr. Bar Association $4,215 West Palm Beach Reading materials and mentors for students at PACE Center for Girls College and University Resource Fair Dade County Bar Association $3,155 Miami George Edgecomb Bar Association $4,520 Tampa Legal Line call-in pro bono service for South Floridians Pro Bono Outreach Project F. Malcolm Cunningham Sr. Bar Association $3,000 West Palm Beach Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association $5,000 Miami Shores CBA Community Law Project to assist seniors and families with end-of-life legal decisions Phoenix Rehabilitative Initiative to facilitate women’s re-entry and education George Edgecomb Bar Association $3,000 Tampa Hillsborough County Bar Association $2,500 Tampa Parents’ School Passport Program – Parent Participation Incentive HCBA Leadership Institute Highlands County Bar Association $2,000 Sebring Lee County Bar Association $5,000 Ft. Myers Law Day 2008 public education program Foreclosure Legal Assistance Project The Hispanic Bar Association of Central Florida $3,660 Orlando Marion County Bar Association $5,000 Ocala Conozca Sus Derechos (Know Your Rights) Teen Society Block Party to promote healthy alternatives Josiah T. Walls Bar Association $4,500 to at-risk behavior Gainesville Orange County Bar Association $4,000 Street Law After School, a program to educate children about Orlando the consequences of crime Pathways in Law crime prevention program The Lee County Bar Association $2,000 Ft. Myers The Tampa Bay Hispanic Bar Association and The George $5,000 Edgecomb Bar Association The Lee County Bar Association Pro Bono Initiative Tampa Martin County Bar Association $2,000 Diversity Internship Program for first- through third-year Palm City minority law students Annual Constitution Week Project to educate children Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association $5,000 about the Constitution Tallahassee Miami Beach Bar Association $1,000 Florida’s First Black Lawyers: 1869-1979, an education Coral Gables and outreach project Low-Income Legal Services Clinic Total $40 ,235 Orange County Bar Association $1,500 Orlando Civic Education: Promoting an Independent Judiciary

Legacy for Justice Anonymous Tom Loffredo, Esquire Tod Aronovitz, Esquire John and Nora Patterson or a special group of dedicated supporters, the mission of The Florida Bar Foundation is of such great personal importance that they have chosen James L. Bell, Esquire John Woolslair Sheppard, Esquire to make a commitment of resources to ensure that the Foundation’s work F A. Hamilton Cooke, Esquire Hon. William A. Van Nortwick, Jr. can be sustained well into the future. The Legacy for Justice recognizes those who have either included the Foundation in their estate planning, made a Robert W. Fisher, Esquire Robert Craig Waters, Esquire pledge of more than $10,000, directed a significant cy pres award to the Maria E. Henderson John Yanchunis, Esquire Foundation, or facilitated a colleague’s major gift. We offer the members of this prestigious group our sincerest gratitude for their deep and abiding Laird A. Lile, Esquire commitment to the Foundation.

10 Lifetime Giving Societies Your Investment in Access to Justice Recognition Levels for Lifetime Giving he mission of The Florida Bar Your gifts can support current President’s Society $1,000,000 and up Foundation is to provide programs or can be added to The Judge’s Society $500,000-999,999 The Foundation is T greater access to justice. Florida Bar Foundation Endowment Advocate’s Society $250,000-499,999 very pleased to Foundation grants support Trust as a permanent source of support Barrister’s Society $100,000-249,999 recognize the leadership and funding for legal for Foundation programs. Counselor’s Society $50,000-99,999 following individuals aid in Florida, improvements in whose total giving Florida lawyers – and the broader Platinum Society $25,000-49,999 the state’s justice system, and to the Foundation public – consistently demonstrate their Gold Society $10,000-24,999 programs designed to instill a spirit exceeds $2,500. sense of responsibility to care for those Silver Society $5000-9,999 of public service in law students. in need and their belief in the value of Bronze Society $2,500-4,999 Many Floridians have nowhere else fairness in our justice system. We invite to turn but to a legal aid or pro bono you to support the work of the attorney to help them when they are Foundation and make your investment Advocate’s Society Gold Society *Daryl D. Parks facing domestic violence, unlawful in access to justice. Rogow Greenberg Foundation $250,000-499,999 $10,000-24,999 evictions, scams such as mortgage and Bruce S. Rogow To learn more about charitable giving Anonymous Anonymous *Lawrence J. Spiegel fraud, or denial of child support *Darryl M. Bloodworth opportunities at the Foundation, *Sidney A. Stubbs, Jr. or public benefits to which they *Jane Elizabeth Curran please contact: Barrister’s Society *William L. Thompson, Jr. *John W. Frost, II are entitled. $100,000-249,999 *Honorable John W. GrayRobinson, P.A. Ruden McClosky Smith Thornton, Jr. Although IOTA funds support the *Stuart Z. Grossman Schuster & Russell, P.A. *Honorable William A. Van *Maria E. Henderson Foundation’s mission, the need still Nortwick, Jr. far outstrips the capacity of legal Counselor’s Society *William O.E. Henry Holland & Knight services programs. Working together, $50,000-99,999 Bronze Society *T. Glenn Jackson, Jr., we can do more to enhance the Tim Bachmeyer CitiFinancial *John C. Patterson, Jr. $2,500-4,999 Foundation’s mission and meet the Director of Developmentt Florida Lawyers’ Legal *Roderick N. Petrey, *Francisco R. Angones Insurance Corp. *Lou Ann Powell *Mary Elizabeth Cantrell legal needs of the state’s most [email protected] *Miles A. McGrane, III *John Woolslair Sheppard Carlton Fields, P.A. vulnerable populations. (800) 541-2195 The Florida Bar Young Stroock Stroock & Lavin LLP *Paul C. Doyle Lawyers Division *Russell Troutman Luis Lucas Fernandez Marvin A. Urquhart, Jr. The Florida Bar Platinum Society *Honorable John D. Wessel Administrative Law Section $25,000-49,999 *Laird A. Lile *Honorable Donald M. Samuel S. Smith Memorial Dollar Rent A Car Silver Society Middlebrooks Florida Lawyers Mutual $5,000-9,999 *Linda Ann Moore Endowment Fund Insurance Company BankAtlantic Foundation *William T. Moore *J. Wayne Hogan *Bruce B. Blackwell n 2001, the law firm of Ruden, purpose of the Fund is to protect the Colleen Ann Preston Legal Services Project *A. Hamilton Cooke Jamie King Proctor McClosky, Smith, Schuster & legal rights of the incapacitated, elderly Directors' Association (to *William H. Davis *John A. Radey Russell established the Samuel S. and the disabled. In 2006- 2007, a fund a summer fellow in Dean, Mead, Egerton, I *Victor R. Smith honor of Terry Russell) Bloodworth Smith Memorial Endowment Fund grant of $6,484 was provided from *Burton Young Mellon United National Bank *Honorable Larry Klein in honor of law partner Sam Smith, the Fund to the Guardianship Program *Gary S. Lesser *denotes a Fellow of a longtime supporter and past of Dade County, of which Sam Smith Howard M. Neu The Florida Bar Foundation president of the Foundation. The was a founder and president. Annual Giving Circles 2006-2008

Gifts from Fellows Brian D. Burgoon Corinne Cotton Hodak Robert B. Parrish Joshua A. Whitman James E. Aker Scott W. Dunlap and others made William P. Byrne James Read Holland, II John C. Patterson, Jr. Robert Stuart Willis Robert Stephen Anderson John E. Duvall in Fiscal Year Valerie C. Chritton Elizabeth B. Howard Rhonda D. Peoples -Waters Evan J. Yegelwel Francisco R. Angones Stephen H. Echsner 2006-2007 Jewel White Cole Chanley T. Howell Mary K. Phillips Paul Young Georgina A. Angones Charlie Easa Farah Kevin Cook Richard K. Jones Charles P. Pillans, III Stephen N. Zack Scott E. Atwood Easa Farah Mary Cousar Suzanne Judas Michael Gregory Barry L Zisser Thomas J. Bachmeyer, James O. Fergeson, Jr. Platinum Circle James D’Andrea Dennis G. Kainen Prendergast Sr., Ph.D. Michael G. Figgins $25,000-49,999 John Daley William Kalish Grier Pressly Gifts from Fellows Mark Patrick Barnebey Thomas M. Fitzgibbons Miles A. McGrane, III Katie Dearing Andrew J. Knight, II Joseph Prichard, Jr. and others made Morgan R. Bentley Brian M. Flaherty Thomas Albert George F. Knox, Jr. Stephen George Prom in F iscal Year John T. Berteau W. E. Chip Gaylor Silver Circle Delegal, III Edward W. Lane, III Dee Reiter 2007-2008 David G. Blake Cheryl L. Gordon Michael J. Dewberry Eric L. Leach Mark Rosenblum Jacqueline L. Leo Govoni $5,000-9,999 Joshua Doyle Mitchell Wooten Legler Clifford W. Sanborn, III Blanton Suzanne Worrall Green Florida Lawyers’ Legal Kate Doyle Chauncey W. Lever, Jr. Edwin A. Scales, III Gold Circle Darryl M. Bloodworth Stuart Z. Grossman Insurance Corp. G. Ray Driver, Jr. Frederick J. Lotterhos, III Harvey I. Schneider $10,000-24,999 Carlos J. Bonilla Steven Howard Hagen Legal Services Project Paul Michael Eakin Michelle C. Lyles Carl B. Schwait Florida Lawyers Mutual Elizabeth Margaret Boyle William E. Hahn Directors’ Association Charles Chobee Ebbets Denise A. Lyn Victor R. Smith Insurance Company Arnell Bryant-Willis Clark Bradley Hall, Jr. Michael M. Fields Dominic C. MacKenzie Susan Stacy Roderick N. Petrey Charla McNally Burchett John Richard Hamilton Leadership Circle Christa Figgins C. Donald MacLean, Jr. Barbara Suddath David Craig Calley Michael Allen Hanzman $1,000-2,499 Michael W. Fisher Leonard S. Magid Strickland Silver Circle Mary Elizabeth Cantrell Linda Harradine Broward County Bar C. V. Ford, Jr. Rodney S. Margol Richard A. Tanner Howard A. Caplan J. Michael Hartenstine $5,000-9,999 Association Young Allison White Forsyth Allen L. Martin Frank J. Tassone, Jr. Raymond H. Carlson Alison H. Haskins Jane Elizabeth Curran Lawyers Section John W. Frost, II Andrew John Mayts, Jr. Renee E. Thompson Harold H. Catlin Honorable Lee E. Gary S. Lesser Marianne Lloyd Aho Vincent Paul Gallagher Elizabeth McCausland Honorable John W. Craig P. Colburn, Jr. Haworth Legal Services Project Cristina Alonso Judith A. Garabo June C. McKinney Thornton, Jr. Craig Harry Coller DeLacy Healey Directors’ Association Jennifer Jean Ator John F. Germany Paul P. McMahon Christine M. Thorson Manuel Luciano Crespo Susan B. Hecker Solomon L. Badger, III, Rodney G. Gregory Michael Collins E. Ralph Tirabassi Honorable Stephen Arthur Ivan Jacobs Ed.D Caleb Grimese McQuagge Marcia Parker Tjoflat Bronze Circle L. Dakan Julio C. Jaramillo Michael A. Bander Stuart Z. Grossman Harold Gerard Melville Joel Barry Toomey $2,500-4,999 Georgia R. Danahy Sherri Johnson Jeptha F. Barbour James S. Groh Carol Miller Clay B. Tousey, Jr. Laird A. Lile Bertram V Dannheisser, III Pamela Maureen Jones Daniel Kearney Bean John R. Gunnarson Joseph Payne Milton Russell Troutman Miles A. McGrane III Robert W. Darnell Philip Noble Kabler Allison K. Bethel Maria Hale Michael P. Milton Melissa Turra Regina Davidson Lisa Kleinberg Donald Black Roger Dale Hall Dianne Misiak Robert Craig Waters Leadership Circle Kahlil Amyn Day John Williams Leon Darryl M. Bloodworth Chris Hand Linda Ann Moore Benjamin Johnson Weaver Honorable Frederick A. Richard Harry Levenstein John Anthony Boggs Renee Daigle Harrell Mary N. Morgan Dianne J. Weaver $1,000-2,499 De Furia Joseph R. Licandro Donna M. Brooks William Hasel Harrell, Jr. Kathleen O’Malley David M. Wells Harvey J. Abel Jose F. Diaz Harold Seibert Lippes Cecilia Bryant Robert A. Heekin Daryl D. Parks William Pierce White, III Dusty Aker Saralyn Abel Dorrill Marcia J. Lockwood

11 Annual Giving Circles 2006-2008

Leslie W. Loftus Eric L. Meeks Alexander G. Paderewski Matthew J. Ridgely Paul J. Schwiep Honorable Rodney Smith L. Norman Vaughan-Birch Rosanna MacKnight Michael O. Mena Frederick D. Page William Elkin Neil W. Scott HeatherAnn Marie Honorable Waddell Arlie L. Christian Marlin Faith Mesnekoff Stephen J. Pajcic Robertson, Jr. Timothy S. Shaw Solanka Wallace, III Michael Marrese Carol Mirando Roberto R. Pardo Louise H. Rohan Harry L. Shorstein Rebecca Harrison Steele Clifford L. Walters Ricardo Martinez-Cid Catherine Mitchell Brenda L. Patten Steven E. Rohan David Mark Silberstein Brian Lee Tannebaum Honorable Michael R Susan Horovitz Maurer Linda Ann Moore Jan W. Pitchford Zachary L. Ross Emelia Silva James S. Taylor Weatherby Marc M. Mayo Lisa Gonzalez Moore Gregory J. Porges Juliet Murphy Roulhac Barry Steven Sinoff Damian E. Thomas S. Grier Wells Dennis J. McGillicuddy Alyssa M. Nohren Robert A Ray Timmy Rupeiks Halcyon Edward Skinner Honorable John W. Russell H. Young Telese B. McKay Felicia Leborgne Nowels William Leon Richey Roland Sanchez-Medina , Jr. J. Ronald Skipper Thornton, Jr. Juan Carlos Zorrilla Joel Martin McTague Fellows of The Florida Bar Foundation

Fellows are life members of The Florida Bar Foundation; Robert Walter Boos Mary Elizabeth Cantrell Dean C. Colson Timothy H. David core supporters who believe in the value of justice and the importance William Rudolph Boose III Dominic M. Caparello Ian Comisky Regina Davidson of the Foundation’s leadership and charitable programs. Kurt Bosshardt Howard A. Caplan Peter Michael Commette Angie Davis Terry Bowersock Albert Capouano Thomas Condon Darrey A. Davis* Fellows gifts become part of The Florida Bar Foundation Endowment Honorable Joseph Arthur Douglas Cardente Cristin A. Conley Edward B. Davis Trust, which preserves the original gift and expends only endowment Boyd John P. Cardillo J. Marshall Conrad Larry S. Davis income. Additions to the Endowment increase the Foundation’s C. Bryant Boydstun, Jr. Honorable Hugh A. Louis T.M. Conti Magda Montiel Davis revenue and help secure the future of its charitable programs. Edwin M. Boyer Carithers, Jr. Gregory D. Cook William H. Davis Tyrie A. Boyer David Russell Carlisle Kevin Cook Honorable Jack Day Thank you to the Fellows of The Florida Bar Foundation. Elizabeth Boyle Russell E Carlisle A. Hamilton Cooke Kahlil Amyn Day Stephen J Bozarth Stephen M. Carlisle Leslie Larkin Cooney Stephen E. Day William Aaron Alan H. Aronson Donna M. Benckenstein Juan Bracete Edward D. Carlson Nancy Copperthwaite Honorable Frederick Ramon A. Abadin Hina Askari Kevin G. Bennett Donald L. Braddock Raymond Carlson Michael F. Coppins De Furia Anthony J. Abate Honorable Reubin O’D. R. Lee Bennett Dana Gibson Bradford Darrell F. Carpenter Deborah S. Corbishley Mary Anne De Petrillo Maria Elena Abate Askew Colonel Morrie Benson* Joseph W. Bradham, Jr.* Anthony J. Carriuolo Dennis Corrick Miguel Manuel De la O David Abbey Millicent B. Athanason Morgan Bentley Debra Braga Hunter W. Carroll James Corrigan George H. DeCarion Charles W. Abbott Wilson Charles Atkinson, Wings Slocum Benton Jack P. Brandon Robert J. Carroll John F. Corrigan Daniel DeCubellis Harvey Abel III Paul E. Berg Alan C. Brandt, Jr. Francis L. Carter William W. Corry Joseph A. DeMaria Richard Abramowitz Jennifer Ator Randall C. Berg, Jr. Dave Brannon Joseph Russell Casacci Hugh Cotney Barbara DeSimone Thomas Louis Abrams Scott Atwood William Berger John M. Brennan Daniel Casey Arthur Howard Courshon John Andrew DeVault David P. Ackerman Marcella Cohen Auerbach Robert T. Bergin, Jr. Matthew G. Brenner Patrick J. Casey Mary Cousar John de Leon Adam G. Adams, III Charles Auslander Sheryl Elise Berkowitz Victoria Brieant Marshall R. Cassedy Henry M. Coxe, III Gustavo de Ribeaux Louie N. Adcock, Jr. Charles DuBose Ausley Howard Jay Berlin Laurie Brigance Honorable Gerardo John G. Crabtree Jorge del Valle Honorable James Adkins* Margaret B. Ausley Andrew S. Berman Alejandro Brito Castiello Sarah Crane Kenneth C. Deacon, Jr. Mitchell D. Adler Martin S. Awerbach Neil Jay Berman Shephard Broad* Harold Catlin Thomas P. Crapps Amy N. Dean Jack G. Admire Jonathan Leigh Awner Richard E. Berman Donna Brooks Richard Caton Ted Crespi James J. Dean Matthew Ahearn Alan Axelrod Vicki Berman Melinda Brown George Cauthen Manuel Luciano Crespo Katie Dearing Marianne Aho David Babner David Scott Bernstein Nina Kole Brown Eugene Cavallucci Honorable A. Jay Cristol Robert C. Decker Steven Nathan Ainbinder Thomas J. Bachmeyer, Joel E. Bernstein Steve C. Brown Michael Cavendish Eleanor R. Cristol Theodore Deckert Thomas D. Aitken Sr., Ph.D. Michael A. Bernstein Thomas W. Brown Gregory M. Cesarano Richard Harvey Critchlow David Deehl Dusty Aker Solomon L. Badger, III, Gerald Thomas Berry Lorna E Brown-Burton Seymour Chadroff Ronald Irwin Croft Ignacio Del Valle James Aker Ed.D John Berteau Honorable Edwin B. Linda Chamberlain James F. Crowder, Jr. Thomas Delegal, III Honorable James E. Scott L. Baena Mary-Anne Bestebreurtje Browning, Jr. James Chaplin Benjamin L. Crump Honorable Angela Alderman Charles Bailey Allison K. Bethel Jackson M Bruce Marc Chapman Thomas A. Culmo Dempsey Marcy Levine Aldrich Douglas R Bald Elizabeth Bevington John M. Brumbaugh Robert Paul Charbonneau Philip Bruce Culpepper Bernard H. Dempsey, Jr. Bruce Gilmour Alexander Kimberly A. Bald David Winthrop Bianchi Honorable Catherine Robert I. Chaskes Michele Kane Cummings Lauren Young Detzel Martin J. Alexander Gregory A. Baldwin Mark Bideau Brunson Steven Chaykin* John K. Cunningham Jeffrey A. Deutch Richard Alexander William Cook Ballard Brian L. Bilzin Bjorn E. Brunvand Honorable Leon B. John P. Cunningham Theodore E. Deutch Walter H. Alford David Band Garrett J. Biondo Dale Alan Bruschi Cheek, III John J. Cunningham, Jr. Michael Dewberry Bonnie Elizabeth Allen Michael A. Bander Donald Black Robert M. Brush Douglas A. Cherry Ralph E. Cunningham, Jr. Sandra F. Diamond Herbert L. Allen Stephen Bander Sally Blackmun J. Shepard Bryan, Jr. Charles Richard Chilton Jane Elizabeth Curran Jose F. Diaz Philip Allen Jeptha Barbour Bruce B. Blackwell Cecilia Bryant Robert M. Chisholm Glenn Curran, III Patrick H Dickinson* Sandra E. Allen Honorable Thomas H. Russell Merrin Blain Michael Bryant* Robert A. Chitty Lawrence N. Curtin George A. Dietz Sam Y. Allgood, Jr. Barkdull, Jr. Laurence Ian Blair Rowlett W. Bryant Neil R. Chonin Clinton A. Curtis Alan T. Dimond John Rollins Allison, III Marvin E. Barkin David Blake Arnell Bryant-Willis Elias Chotas Robert M. Curtis Jesse H. Diner Ileana Maria Almeida Mark Barnebey Robert Blake Mark Buchbinder Valerie Chritton Edward I. Cutler* James R. Dirmann Cristina Alonso James D. Barnett Michael Robert Blanchard Robert D. Bugg Susan H. Churuti Irving Cypen Honorable Martin R. Jonathan L. Alpert Martha W. Barnett Jacqueline Blanton Gerald Buhr Christine A. Clark Marcia K. Cypen Dishowitz Honorable Chris F. Gregory Barnhart Donna Blaustein John Lindsay Builder, Jr. Harold R. Clark* Stephen Cypen C. Harris Dittmar Altenbernd Richard Baron Honorable Deb Sammons Robert J. Buonauro Honorable Nikki Ann Dan Cytryn Russell W. Divine James J. Altman Eunice T. Baros Blechman Marshall R. Burack Clark Gabrielle L. D’Alemberte James A. Dixon, Jr.* Cesar L. Alvarez John Richard Barrett William Jay Blechman Charla Burchett Robert N. Clarke, Jr. Talbot D’Alemberte Stephen S. Dobson, III Hal B. Anderson Richard Lee Barrett James Blecke Scott Burgess Julian D. Clarkson Arthur B. D’Almeida Charles W. Dodson James W. Anderson Charles J. Bartlett William F. Blews Brian Burgoon Robert T. Clelland, Jr. James D’Andrea James W. Dodson Robert Anderson Hamden Holloway Byron Block John Michael Burman Lourdes Cline Joseph C. D’Annunzio Kathleen Dolan-Valdes Steven Alan Anderson Baskin, III Ellen Block Henry Burnett Edwin C. Cluster Honorable Stephen Dakan Sean Domnick Peter Joseph Andolina Hilarie Bass Irwin J. Block David H. Burns Howard K. Coates, Jr. Howard L. Dale Honorable Joseph G. Angus G. Andrews Judith A. Bass Darryl M. Bloodworth Honorable James M. James E. Cobb Charles Dale, Jr. Donahey, Jr. Francisco R. Angones Drake M. Batchelder Mark Bloom Burns* Mariza Cobb John Daley Thomas J. Donnelly Georgina Angones Douglas Bates Paul Michael John L. Burns Jennifer R. Coberly Roy B. Dalton, Jr. Ava Doppelt Eric Lee Ansel Anthony Sylvest Battaglia Bloomgarden William Burns, Jr. Kendall B. Coffey Matthew R. Danahy Richard E. Doran Honorable Harry Lee Paul J. Battista David Blum Myron Burnstein Howard Allen Cohen Thomas Danahy Saralyn Dorrill Anstead James A. Baxter Edward R. Blumberg Bernardo Burstein Jay Cohen Honorable Paul W. Gail A. Dotson Susann Anstead Daniel Kearney Bean Joel Blumberg Robert C. Buschel Jules Simon Cohen Danahy, Jr. W. Dexter Douglass Robert W Anthony, Jr. James D. Beasley Representative Ellyn Stephen D. Busey Honorable Robert S Tara Miller Dane Raymond A. Doumar Albert K. Antonio Dora Lilia Beatty Setnor Bogdanoff Nestor Bustamante Cohen Honorable James Daniel Joyce S. Dove Robert C. Apgar Sabrina C. Beavens J. Bogenschutz Ralph M. Byer Howard Coleman Coker Alan Daniels Mayanne Downs Honorable Susan Aramony Steven R. Bechtel E. Jackson Boggs William P. Byrne Craig Colburn Nancy A. Daniels Joshua Doyle Fernando S. Aran Robert Jordan Beckham John Anthony Boggs James A. Cabler Jewel White Cole Nicholas Daniels Kate Doyle Rosemary E Armstrong Frank M. Bedell Bruce H. Bokor Ronald K. Cacciatore Gregory W. Coleman Steven L. Daniels Paul C. Doyle E.D. Armstrong, III Jerald S. Beer Thomas R. Bolf Jane Callahan Ira Coleman Bertram Dannheisser Michael Dribin Frances Arnold Dixie E. Beggs* Bill Bone David Calley Jeffrey Peters Coleman Robert Darnell G. Ray Driver, Jr. Honorable Sidney James L. Bell Carlos J. Bonilla Jon D. Caminez Craig Coller John Mcrae Dart Anibal Duarte-Viera Aronovitz* Jann Johnson Bellamy Ronald Lee Book James D. Camp, Jr. Michael Colodny Thomas Henry Dart Robert W. Duckworth Tod Aronovitz Jonathan David Beloff Alan B. Bookman L. Kinder Cannon, III Gilberto Colon, Jr. James R Daughton Deborah S. Dudley

12 Fellows of The Florida Bar Foundation

Donald K. Duffy Joel Stephen Fass Neil Frank Kathryn Glenewinkel James Groh William T. Harrison, Jr. F. Thomas Hopkins, III William S. Dufoe Irwin J. Fayne James Russell Franklin Franklyn Glinn Joseph Grohman Gerald T. Hart* Ellsworth William Stephen Dunegan Vivian H. Fazio Seann M. Frazier Gerard Francis Glynn Lynn H. Groseclose Kenneth R. Hart Hoppe, Jr. Davisson F. Dunlap Robert R. Feagin, III W. D. Frederick Judy Godette Merrick Lawrence Gross J. Hartenstine Wade L. Hopping Scott Dunlap Mark Feather Honorable Gill S. Freeman David H. Gold Honorable Raymond O. Holly S. Harvey Andrea Horne Patricia C. Dunn Jeffrey D. Feldman Lewis Freeman Michael Ira Goldberg Gross Alison Haskins Christopher Horne Denis L. Durkin Robert Ferencik Honorable Thomas G. Edward Ira Golden Allen R. Grossman Nancy A Hass Brett J. Horowitz Michael Edward Dutko James Fergeson, Jr. Freeman, Jr. Paul M Goldman Stuart Z. Grossman Honorable Joseph W. Mark L. Horwitz John E. Duvall Christopher C. Ferguson Ellen C. Freidin Robert S. Goldman William Gundlach Hatchett Elizabeth B. Howard Homer Duvall, III Luanne Ferguson Leon Fresco Herman W. Goldner David Gunter Roger Haughey Kelley C. Howard-Allen Daniel L. Dwyer Luis Fernandez Julia Lauren Frey Karen Goldsmith Kristen C. Gunter William W. Haury Chanley T. Howell Thomas A. Dye David Ferraro Howard Friedman Kenneth B. Goldsmith Jordi Guso Honorable Judith Lynn Howell Paul Eakin James Ferraro Robert J. Friedman Glenn Goldstein Kimberly J. Gustafson Hawkins Robert F. Hudson, Jr. Richard Tilghman Earle Sandra M. Ferrera Victoria Frigo Jordana Lee Goldstein Lee Ann Gustafson Honorable Lee Haworth J. Michael Huey William G. Earle Ray Ferrero, Jr. John W. Frost, II Dean Steven M. John Marvin Guthrie Kenton H. Haymans Mark Hulsey E. Gary Early Michael Fertig Louis O. Frost, Jr.* Goldstein* Fred Haddad Honorable Fred A. Robert Hummer, Jr. H. Michael Easley Michael M. Fields Scott Jeffrey Fuerst Paul Golis Earl Bryce Hadlow* Hazouri Honorable Eleanor Charles Chobee Ebbets James Fierberg Honorable Carolyn K. Ervin Gonzalez Steven Howard Hagen DeLacy Healey Mitchel Hunter Linda Ebin Christa Figgins Fulmer Ricardo Andres Gonzalez John R. Haggitt Susan Hecker Steven D. Hutton Stephen Echsner Michael G. Figgins Michael Furen Deborah Packer Goodall William E. Hahn Chad D. Heckman Sherry Hyman Robert Edward Eddington Gerald A. Figurski George D. Gabel, Jr. Harry G. Goodheart, III Mitchell B. Haigler Jennifer Heckman Thomas F. Icard, Jr. Charles Henry Egerton Thomas M. Findley Eric Gabrielle Jonathan Goodman Martin L. Haines, III Robert Heekin Gay L. Inskeep Charles Ehrhardt Paul Finizio William Scott Gabrielson Honorable Ross Goodman David J. Halberg Gerald Heffernan Carmen Irizarry Charles W. Ehrlich Barry Ives Finkel Robert P. Gaines James W. Goodwin, II Maria Hale Jack Helinger Bacardi Jackson Raymond Ehrlich* Morris Finkel Ted P. Galatis, Jr. Cheryl L. Gordon James Haliczer James Helinger Hank E. Jackson Lewis S. Eidson, Jr. Carey M. Fischer James A. Gale Kenneth A. Gordon Frank D. Hall Wayne L. Helsby Mary Alice Jackson Rashad Haqq El-Amin Abraham S. Fischler, Ed.D Vincent Paul Gallagher Seymour A. Gordon Gloretta H. Hall Donald R. Henderson T. Glenn Jackson, Jr.* Timothy B. Elliott Lori Fischler Robert B. Galt, III Morton Goudiss Roger Hall Maria E. Henderson Arthur Jacobs Michael Elsberry Michael A. Fischler Tomas F. Gamba John R. Gould* Clark Hall, Jr. Bryan Scott Henry Daniel Jacobson Marsha B. Elser Shirley Fischler Joseph Ganguzza Leo Govoni M. Lewis Hall, Jr. William O.E. Henry* Melanie Coleman Patrick G. Emmanuel Jeffrey David Fisher Judith Garabo William S. Graessle William D. Hall, Jr. Anna Marie Hernandez Jacobson Stephen C. Emmanuel John Edwin Fisher Alejandro M. Garcia Karl Lawrence Gragg Jay Halpern H. Manuel Hernandez Arvin Jeremy Jaffe Tala Engel* Michael Fisher Mario J. Garcia-Serra Meaghan Gragg Douglas M. Halsey Andrew R. Herron Steven R. Jaffe Martin Engels Robert W. Fisher Jose Antonio Garrido, Jr. Anthony P. Granese Brenda Hamilton Richard Hersch Edward Stewart Jaffry Arthur J. England, Jr. Honorable Jane Fishman Brian Gart Stanley Gravenmier John Hamilton Iris Herssein Charles Jamieson Leonard S. Englander Alan P. Fiske Jeff Garvin J. Charles Gray William F. Hamilton Lori Herz Honorable Frances Ann Maria Enriquez E. Cole Fitzgerald, III Alan S. Gassman Mark Green Lawrence J. Hamilton, II John Hickey Jamieson* Joey Epstein Roy E. Fitzgerald, III Faith E. Gay Nathaniel Green Steven Hammer Wm. Earl Higginbotham John Jankowski Donna Erlich Thomas Fitzgibbons W. E. Gaylor Oliver Lain Green Phillip N. Hammersley Deborah Higgins Julio C. Jaramillo Robert M. Ervin Terry Ellen Fixel Peggy Gehl Suzanne Green Frank A. Hamner Jennifer Hill Kelly Overstreet Johnson Robert M. Ervin, Jr. Brian Flaherty James Raymond George John L. Green, Jr. Paul Hancock Paul F. Hill Sherri Johnson Alejandro Espino Joseph W. Fleece, III John Germany Sandra Greenblatt Chris Hand Benjamin H. Hill, III Susan Glatthorn Johnson Jane Louise Estreicher Joseph Fleece, Jr. John Germany Honorable Charles M. Leon H. Handley John Himes Timothy A. Johnson, Jr. James V. Etscorn Fred H. Flowers Philip Maurice Gerson Greene Stephen F. Hanlon Donald Hines John Arthur Jones David L. Evans Robert L. Floyd* Honorable Norman S. Robin Halpern Greene Christian W. Hansen Kim A. Hines Pamela Maureen Jones Katherine W. Ezell James L. Fly Gerstein Raleigh W. Greene, III Michael Hanzman Melanie Ann Hines Richard Jones Kerry L. Ezrol C. David Fonvielle William E. Getzen Arnold L. Greenfield* Dean Joseph D . Harbaugh Donald M. Hinkle Richard Thomas Jones Eric H. Faddis Sally Harris Foote Wayne Wyndham Geyer James Greenfield Ronald A. Harbert Lynn Hinson Brian Kirk Jordan Michael J. Faehner Edwin L. Ford Craig Gibbs Michael H. Greenhill Larry Hardaway Joel Hirschhorn Joseph Jordan Jesse Faerber William M. Ford Delbridge L. Gibbs* Gerald Greenspoon Honorable Major B. Marilyn Joy Hochman Robert C. Josefsberg Manuel Farach C. V. Ford, Jr. Karen A. Gievers Carol Gregg Hart Harding Corinne Hodak Michael Josephs Charlie Farah Walter Forehand Donald A. Gifford* Nancy W. Gregoire Clifford Barry Hark Judith Hodor Suzanne Judas Easa Farah Michael Loren Foreman Irwin R. Gilbert Rodney G. Gregory John F. Harkness, Jr. Lawrence J. Hoffman Philip Noble Kabler Dominic O. Fariello Brian Foremny Jeffrey Gilbert Honorable William C. John Harllee John Michael Hogan Manuel Kadre Gary Michael Farmer Robert A. Forlizzo Leonard H. Gilbert Gridley J. Bruce Harper Wayne Hogan Honorable Charles J. Honorable Crockett Eric Forman Robert J. Gill Christopher L. Griffin Linda Harradine David Hoines Kahn Farnell Hamilton Collins William A. Gillen* Anthony Griffith Renee Daigle Harrell Mark E. Holcomb Dennis G. Kainen Earl Drayton Farr, Jr. Forman, Jr. Arthur D. Ginsburg Caleb Grimes William Harrell, Jr. Troy W. Holland Kenneth Michael Kaleel John M. Farrell Allison White Forsyth Matthew Gissen Michele B. Grimes Elizabeth Harris James Read Holland, II William Kalish J. Rex Farrior, Jr. John D. Foster Peter L. Gladstone Honorable Stephen H. Gordon H. Harris Honorable Ilona M. Hal H. Kantor Timothy Malcolm Spencer H. Fox Roy Glass Grimes Robert Harris Holmes Seth Kaplan Farrow* Karen France Michael J. Glazer Courtney Grimm Linda Frances Harrison Judith A. Homko Robert Kapusta, Jr.

Cy Pres Awards Benefit the Foundation

A settlement that could have meant a few pennies to nearly 8 million people “Countless families will silently bless him for his instead will mean a shot at justice for hundreds of Floridians who otherwise endeavors,” wrote board member Roberto Pardo might have languished in substandard housing, abusive relationships or unsafe of Miami. working conditions. The term cy pres comes from the French, “cy pres Those are just a few of the situations legal aid attorneys confront on behalf of comme possible,” meaning “as near as possible,” their clients every day in Florida, and a $295,000 cy pres award secured for and the doctrine is often applied in class action The Florida Bar Foundation in 2008 by Tampa attorney John Yanchunis will cases in which full restitution to all injured parties go a long way toward supporting the work of those who represent the state’s is impossible or infeasible, such as when the most vulnerable citizens. amount of damage per person is insignificant although the aggregate damages are large. It can As class counsel in a suit involving tiny overcharges applied to a large class also be employed in probate matters when gifts fail, of consumers, Yanchunis recommended The Florida Bar Foundation as the or in the area of charitable trusts. recipient of the settlement, given the impracticality of locating all the class John Yanchunis members and refunding them less than 4 cents each. This cy pres award is not the first for The Florida Bar Foundation. Florida Bar past President Tod Aronovitz of Miami “Since the injury arose from a consumer class action, and The Florida Bar previously directed two cy pres awards to the Foundation. Foundation has as its charge the funding of legal services for people who can’t afford it, I thought it would be the closest connection to the way in which the “In approving a final settlement, courts examine whether the cy pres award injury to the class arose,” Yanchunis said. is fair and reasonable and if the recipient is appropriate for the award,” Aronovitz said. “In many consumer class action cases, the class of consumers Both the defense counsel and the presiding judge agreed, and Yanchunis, a senior is typical of the underprivileged Floridians who receive Florida Bar partner with James Hoyer Newcomer and Smiljanich, became the subject of a Foundation-funded legal assistance.” barrage of appreciative e-mails from Bar Foundation board members all over the state.

13 Fellows of The Florida Bar Foundation

Honorable Sandy E. Andrew M. Leinoff Steven W. Marcus Faith Mesnekoff Patrick O’Brien John F. Pitcher Annette Ritter Karlan John Leon Michael Marder Thomas M. Messana W. M. O’Bryan Jan W. Pitchford Stacy J Ritter Fred Evan Karlinsky Charles Glenn Leonard Bruce Marger James Elliott Messer Samuel O. O’Bryan, Jr .* Neal Pitts Honorable Florence Mitchell K. Karpf Vee H. Leonard Rodney S. Margol Stephen W. Metz Phil D. O’Connell Ellen L. Platt Snyder Rivas Anthony J. Karrat William F. Leonard* Timothy K. Mariani Joseph Meux, Jr. Dennis R. O’Connor Lawrence Michael Ploucha Robert Rivas* Allan J. Katz William Robert Leonard Brian Mark Larry K. Meyer Kathleen O’Connor Frank Pohl Peter A. Rivellini Norberto Katz Gary Leppla David E. Marko Ronald G. Meyer James Phillip O’Flarity* Marilyn M. Polson Honorable Howard P. Robert Paul Kaye Gary S. Lesser Jerry Maurice Markowitz Addison Meyers Andrew M. O’Malley Gloria Pomerantz Rives Michael J. Keane Paul A. Lester Andrew Joshua Markus Burton M. Michaels* Kathleen O’Malley Howard Pomerantz Howard Franklin John Rush Keller Honorable Gavin K . Letts* L. Christian Marlin Harry Lewis Michaels Leslie O’Neal-Coble Elizabeth Sanchez Pons Robbins, Jr. T. Paine Kelly, Jr. Irving B. Levenson Emil C. Marquardt, Jr. Honorable Donald M. William G. O’Neill* Fred Wallace Pope, Jr. Bruce H. Roberson William P. Kelly, Jr. Richard Levenstein Michael Marrese Middlebrooks Albert C. O’Neill, Jr. Gregory Porges Scott Roberts David V. Kerns Chauncey W. Lever, Jr. Stewart Marshall, III John J. Mikals* Neal L. O’Toole Peter A Portley Neil Philip Robertson Ann L. Kerr Joel Levine Byrd F. Marshall, Jr. Joe F. Miklas Janet Peralta Ochoa Rebekah J. Poston William Robertson Honorable John Marshall Jay Levy Lonnie Kay Martens Nicholas Galileo Milano Jarret C. Oeltjen Stephen J. Potter Richard M. Robinson Kest Leslie Auerbach Lewis E. Snow Martin Rafael E. Millares Randy J Ogden Honorable Errol Honorable Steven Honorable Sally D.M. Janna P. Lhota James Addison Martin, Jr. Alison Miller Paul Olah, Jr. Hamilton Powell Robinson Kest Alexander O. Lian Emilio F. Martinez Bennett Miller R. Brady Osborne, Jr. Lou Ann Powell Barnett Robinson, Jr. Charles A. Kimbrell* Ira Libanoff Rafael Eduardo Martinez Carol Miller Edith G. Osman Thomas L. Powell Anne Batchelor Robjohns William J. Kimpton Joseph Licandro Ricardo Martinez-Cid James Fox Miller Honorable Ben F. Overton James Powers Ronald Roby David B. King Bennett M. Lifter Steven G. Mason Morris H. Miller Jack B. Owen, Jr. Honorable Linda Lawrence P. Rochefort Mary Elizabeth King Jeffrey Michael Liggio Patrick Charles Massa Richard C. Milstein Alexander Paderewski Raspolich Pratt Bonnie L. Roddenberry Nancy Kinnally Roger Lilavois Gary E. Massey* Joseph Payne Milton Edward J. Page Michael Prendergast Stephen K. Roddenberry John A. Kirst, Jr. Laird A. Lile M. Craig Massey* Michael P. Milton Frederick Page Honorable Gregory A. Barry Roderman Kimberly Kisslan Rutledge R. Liles Albert P. Massey, III Jeffrey Miner Martin S. Page* Presnell Oscar S. Rodriguez E.C. Deeno Kitchen David J. Lillesand R. Donald Mastry Matthew Fraher Minno James F. Page, Jr. Grier Pressly Lida Rodriguez-Taseff Robert Klausner Rodney Kent Lilly William G. Mateer Michael Minton Gary Mark Paige Susan A. Price Dwight L. Rogers Honorable Larry Klein Thomas H. Lindsey Lawrence Glenn Carol Mirando James M. Painter Joseph Prichard, Jr. Bruce S. Rogow Lisa Kleinberg Warren W. Lindsey Mathews, Jr.* Dianne Misiak Gary Pajcic* Gary L. Printy Louise Rohan Charles C. Kline Todd T. Lindsley Sidney L. Matthew Catherine Mitchell Stephen Pajcic H. Palmer Proctor Steven Rohan Kathy Klock Christopher Noel Link Susan Maurer P. Scott Mitchell E. Albert Pallott* M. Julian Proctor Marc Rohr Susan Klock Scott Jeffrey Link Pamela McVay May Geoffrey S Mombach Gary D. Palmer Sharon Proctor Robert Anthony Romagna Joseph P. Klock, Jr. Charles R. Lipcon Clifford Mayhall Robert M . Montgomery, Jr. Robert C. Palmer, III Stephen Prom Honorable Paul H. Kristine E. Knab Harold Lippes Marc Mayo Steve E. Moody Thomas F. Panebianco Connie Pruitt Roney* Tammy Lynn Knight Paul Lipton Juan Jose Mayol, Jr. Nichole Mooney Thomas Panza Chad Pugatch Dr. Amy D. Ronner Andrew Knight, II Byrne Litschgi Andrew Mayts Andrea Moore A. C. Paoli H. Mark Purdy Edward B. Rood Joseph Kniskern Cheryl A.E. Little James Mazzulla Garry R. Moore Anita Paoli Abel Putnam Ellen Rose George F. Knox, Jr. Michael G. Little Russell McCaughan Gene Moore Roberto R. Pardo Thomas Bryant Putnam Catherine Louise Roselli Ky M. Koch Charles H. Livingston Elizabeth McCausland Linda Ann Moore Honorable Barbara Joan Lisa G. Quarrie Carl S. Rosen Honorable Gerald Kogan Robert Edward Sigrid S. McCawley Lisa Moore Pariente Honorable Frank Quesada Harry Rosen Judith Korchin Livingston* Clifton A. McClelland, Jr. Michael T. Moore Edward Clay Parker Honorable Peggy Quince Howard D. Rosen Edward F. Koren Marcia Lockwood Robert McCormick Honorable Robert M. Gregory S. Parker Jose M. Quinon Michael J. Rosen Jeffrey Dean Kottkamp Leslie Loftus William Grant Moore* H. James Parker Priscilla Quinones Charles M. Rosenberg John W. Kozyak Stephen R. Looney McCormick William T. Moore Benjamin Green Parks Marlene Quintana Robin Rosenberg Myron S. Krasny Carlos Lopez-Aguiar James E. McDonald H. Edward Moore, Jr. Daryl D. Parks Samuel Rabin, Jr. Stanley Rosenblatt Jane Kreusler-Walsh Wendy Loquasto Marybeth McDonald Harold Moorefield Robert L. Parks Shawn G. Rader Susan Rosenblatt Sharon E. Krick Erick Lora Honorable Parker Lee Manuel R. Morales, Jr. Robert Parrish John A. Radey Mark Rosenblum Beth-Ann Ellenberg Frederick J. Lotterhos III McDonald Mary Morgan Steven Roy Parson Jill Tamkin Rafilovich Emery H. Rosenbluth, Jr. Krimsky William E. Loucks C. McGee, Jr. Mary Ann Morgan Philip S. Parsons Roosevelt Randolph Gerald Rosenthal Jeremy Kroll Mary Love Dennis McGillicuddy Melvin C. Morgenstern Mitchell Pasin Zachary Rans Ronald Rosenwasser Michael Henry Krul Jack R. Loving William F McGowan Harold E. Morlan, II Robert W. Pass Ramon E. Rasco Robin B. Roshkind Holly Debra Krulik John F. Lowndes Miles A. McGrane, III Eduardo F. Morrell Dorothy Harris Pate Ramon A. Rasco, Jr. Andrew W. Rosin Benedict Kuehne Patricia E. Lowry Miles McGrane, IV Paul Morris Ian Edward Pate Craig V. Rasile Robert P. Rosin Arno Kutner Jeffrey Lucas Thomas R McGuigan Richard Morris Brenda Patten Stuart N. Ratzan Howard P. Ross Lawrence Philip Kuvin Eric E. Ludin John F. McGuire J. Stanford Morse George Patterson Timothy Ravich Lauri Waldman Ross Louis Kwall Reginald Luster Douglas Malcolm Stephanie Morse John C. Patterson, Jr. Billy R. Ready Zachary Ross Warren Thomas LaFray Mark Luttier McIntosh Jane Moscowitz Andrew G. Pattillo, Jr. Linda M. Reck Scott R. Rost Steven Labret Honorable John T. Luzzo W. Edward McIntyre* Bernard Moseley David A. Paul Patricia Redmond Carl D. Roston Carlos A Lacasa Michelle C. Lyles Telese McKay James F. Moseley Clinton Sawyer Payne Irene Redstone Jeffrey Roth Edward Ira Lack Denise Lyn Clarence V. McKee Jamie B. Moses Darrell Winston Payne Ryan Reetz Caran Rothchild Ronald C. Laface Bruce Martin Lyons Mary McKeown Michael W. Moskowitz R. W. Payne, Jr. Gene F. Reibman Frederick M. Rothenberg Christos Lagos Tracy J. Mabry R. Bruce McKibben Stephen B. Moss Daniel S. Pearson* Benjamine Reid David Rothman Michael H. Lambert John M. MacDaniel Richard McKinley Robert Motes Ray H. Pearson* Justus Reid Honorable Ronald Joseph W. Landers, Jr. Richard B. MacFarland June McKinney Susan Patrey Motley James Pearthree* Kenneth J. Reilly Rothschild Burton A. Landy Dominic C. MacKenzie Opal McKinney-Williams Jon C. Moyle Arlene B. Pecora Richard Reinhart Juliet Murphy Roulhac Edward Lane, III William MacKenzie, Jr. Kathleen S. McLeroy Lorin Louis Mrachek Shuler A. Peele Honorable Morgan Laur David P. Rowe William R. Lane, Jr. Rosanna MacKnight Brian K. McMahon Jeffrey Ira Mullens Thomas G. Pelham Reinman James Curtis Rowe Annette M. Lang Anne Beard MacLean Michael P. McMahon Chandler R. Muller Anthony H. Pelle Raymond A. Reiser Elisha D. Roy Joseph Lang Frederick MacLean Paul P. McMahon Sundeep K Mullick Christy D. Pemberton Dee Reiter Jawdett I. Rubaii Thomas Lang Donald MacLean, Jr. Paul J. McMahon Rene V. Murai Carl R. Pennington, Jr. Joseph J. Reiter Amy S. Rubin Sharon L. Langer Alexander Stuart F. Shields McManus Frederick John Murphy, Jr. William L. Penrose Alice Reiter-Feld Dorothy Rubin M. Catherine Lannon MacNabb John Fred McMath J.B. Murray Rhonda D . Peoples-Waters Paul M. Renner Kenneth A. Rubin Nancy Lapierre Marsha Madorsky Scott R. McMillen L. Donald Murrell, Jr. Guy N. Perenich Janet Reno Steven Dennis Rubin Myron G. Lappen James Michael Magee John Mathews McNatt, Jr. Karen Myatt Mark H. Perenich Robert H. Rex C. Edwin Rude, Jr. Roger Allen Larson Leonard Magid Michael J. McNerney M. Wayne Myers Ambarina A. Perez Carlos J. Reyes Howard M. Rudolph Alan D. Lash Joshua Magidson Michael McQuagge Richard C. Myers Barbara Perez Ricardo Alberto Reyes Thomas Ruggles Joel Richard Lavender Amelia Rea Maguire Mitchell T. McRae Nathan E. Nason F. Martin Perry Stephen H. Reynolds Thomas E. Runyan John K. Lawlor Ryland F. Mahathey Joel McTague Timothy P. Neal Pamela I. Perry Kimberly Bonder Rezanka Timmy Rupeiks Gregory Keith Lawrence Michael Charles Maher John W. McWhirter, Jr. John Starr Neely, Jr. David L. Perry, Jr. Ann Rezzonico Dennis G. Ruppel Noel G. Lawrence Stephen T. Maher Robert William Mead, Jr. A. Guy Neff, Jr. Robert E. Pershes Robert M. Rhodes Fletcher G. Rush* Belinda B. Lazzara David G Maire Eric Meeks Matthew Nelles Jeff G. Peters Robert Rhodes, Jr. Gary Rushmer Eric Leach Robert Maland Walter M. Meginniss Barry A. Nelson Roderick N. Petrey Arthur Halsey Rice James M. Russ David Leacock John D. Mallah Pablo Meles David E. Newman Eugene Pettis Dennis Richard Cristine M. Russell Mark R. Leavitt Candace A. Mance Howell W. Melton, Jr. John D.C. Newton, II Louis Pfeffer Nola M. Richardson E. Lanny Russell Amy Lee David B. Mankuta Harold Gerard Melville Alyssa Nohren Lawrence J. Phalin William Leon Richey Terrence Russell Leroy Lee Kenneth Mann Michael O. Mena Joseph Nolan Barbara Lynn Phillips Gerald F. Richman Herman J. Russomanno Honorable Robert W. Lee Sam H. Mann, Jr. Victoria Mendez Kenneth Nolan Lushawn Phillips Julie Ann Rico Deborah A. Ruster Steven Lee Douglas L. Mannheimer Rebecca Mercier-Vargas John A. Noland Mary Phillips Matthew Ridgely Charles E. Rutherford Jasmine Lee-Gaumier Elizabeth Mannion Stewart A. Merkin Donald Hamilton Norman Robert A. Pierce Jesse Rigby Nancy E. Rutland Marie Lefere Christa Mansholt-Choy Robert Merlin Hubert C. Normile, Jr. Patrice J. Pilate Lee H. Rightmyer Marsha G. Rydberg Mitchell Legler Andrea Candace Marcus William W. Merrill Felicia Leborgne Nowels Charles P. Pillans, III R. Terry Rigsby Peter Alan Sachs Janella Kayla Leibovitz Ira Marcus William W. Merrill, III Honorable Gerard J. Johnny A. Pineyro James C. Rinaman, Jr. Mimi Sall Carri S Leininger Jonathan Seth Marcus Richard H. Merritt* O’Brien John C. Pinkerton* William Franklin Ring Vance E. Salter

14 Fellows of The Florida Bar Foundation

Andrew Salvage Mark A. Sessums William M. Smith* Rhonda Stroman Harley S. Tropin Mark Walters Robert H. Willis Charles A. Samarkos Sharon A. Shade D. Culver Smith, III Edward A. Strongin Richard Troutman Kenneth Walton Robert Stuart Willis Jeanne V. Sams Creighton Preston Shafer Sherman N. Smith, Jr.* Janet Messervey Stuart Russell Troutman Joseph J. Ward Lee L. Willis, II Paul SanGiovanni Robert M. W. Shalhoub Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. Sidney A. Stubbs, Jr. Catherine Tucker Robert Ward Robert H. Willis, Jr. Clifford Sanborn, III Honorable Mark I. Andrew M. Smulian Janet Studley M. Stephen Turner Harold A. Ward, III George Wilsey Daniel Sanchez-Galarraga Shames Kenneth Sobel Amanda Styles Mark Turner David Elmer Ward, Jr. Steven Wilsey Roland Sanchez-Medina Hy Shapiro James Barry Soble Michael Styles, Jr. Melissa Turra Richard P. Warfield* Brian Wilson Nicholas Sardelis M David Shapiro Lori A. Sochin Eli Harold Subin Diane Tutt Jeffrey Wayne Warren Kerry Wilson Andrew Blaise Sasso Scott Adam Shapiro HeatherAnn Solanka John J. Sulik Kevin Tynan Lamar Warren William B. Wilson Michael J. Satz Honorable Winifred J. Scott Michael Solkoff Dwight Sullivan Bruce Lee Udolf Jeffrey P. Wasserman Clyde Herbert Wilson, Jr. Joseph H. Saunders Sharp Harry Martin Solomon Jane Sullivan Steven J. Uhlfelder Robert Craig Waters Honorable Thomas S. Thomas C. Saunders Janice Sharpstein Mark S. Solomon Timon V. Sullivan Samuel C. Ullman Emily S. Waugh Wilson, Jr. Craig Savage Richard A. Sharpstein Robert M. Sondak Alan C. Sundberg* James A. Urban Robert Wayne Scott E. Wilt Paul Savage Timothy Shaw Neal R. Sonnett Barbara K. Sunshine Natalia Utrera Honorable Michael Elise K. Winters Johnson S. Savary L. David Shear Richard Sorgini Roland Sutcliffe, Jr. Steven Valancy Weatherby Malcolm Wiseheart, Jr. Jeffrey Savlov John Woolslair Sheppard Osvaldo N. Soto Chantale Leif Suttle James C. Valenti Benjamin Weaver Richard S. Wolfson Nancy Saxton William J. Sheppard A. James Spalla Joseph Swiderski Joseph John Van Heyde, II Diane Joy Weaver Richard Frederick Justin J. Sayfie Gary E. Sherman Robyn Spalter Armando Tabernilla Honorable William A. Barry Webber Wolfson* Edwin A. Scales, III William Barry Sherman Honorable Karla R. Leslie D. Talbot Van Nortwick, Jr. Nancy Weber Sandra K. Wolkov Anthony Scalese Vickie L. Shesler* Spaulding Howard M Talenfeld Suzanne H. Van Wyk Dean Donald J .Weidner Elizabeth Winborne Larry Schatz Honorable Robert L. Brian Spector Ana Elena Tangel- John Anthony VanNess Richard S Weinstein Woltz Honorable John M. Scheb Shevin* David Ira Spector Rodriguez Roberto Mario Vargas Daniel Weiss John R. Wood Robert P. Scheb Deanna Shifrin J. B. Spence Brian Lee Tannebaum Wilfred C. Varn Jack Adam Weiss Jacqueline Wooden Gregory S. Schell Edward R. Shohat Thomas R. Spencer, Jr. Herbert Walker L. Norman Vaughan-Birch R. Earl Welbaum Council Wooten Elliot H. Scherker Harry L. Shorstein Martin Jay Sperry Tannenbaum* Alejandro Vazquez David D. Welch E. Gary Work, Jr. John J. Schickel Darcee Siegel Lawrence Spiegel Richard A. Tanner Joan M. Vecchioli Honorable Charles Frank Wotitzky William Schifino, Jr. Michael Siegel Kent R. Spuhler Virginia Tanner-Otts Carlos Alberto Velasquez T. Wells Leo Wotitzky* Joseph Barry Schimmel Louis Marc Silber Gilbert Squires Michael Anthony Tartaglia Roderick D. Vereen David Wells Robert Wright Mark R. Schlakman Honorable Morris Susan Stacy Frank Tassone, Jr. Claudia Vescovi- Gordon W. Wells* Honorable Arthur G. Honorable Harvey E. Silberman Michael P. Stafford Thomas Tatum Davenport Linda F. Wells Wroble Schlesinger David Silberstein C. Lawrence Stagg James Taylor Beverly L. Vesel S. Grier Wells Barbara M. Yadley Sheldon Schlesinger Emelia Silva Glen Allen Stankee Harry Tempkins Brandon Stuart Vesely Thomas Wells John Yanchunis Jorge Schmidt Murray B. Silverstein Roberta G. Stanley Fran L. Tetunic James Vickaryous Joel R. Wells, Jr.* Leighton D. Yates, Jr. Harvey I. Schneider Evett Louise Simmons Camille Stawicki O. Stephen Thacker, II Victoria A. Vilchez Alan Werksman Grisel Ybarra Honorable Eleanor Gary Simon Karen Stedronsky Damian Thomas Christine Vitolo Sidney Werner Thomas J. Yeager* Schockett Stuart L. Simon* Rebecca Steele Dennis P. Thompson Jacqueline Vlaming Susan B. Werth Evan Yegelwel Andrew M. Schreier David Singer Francine Steelman Renee Thompson Louis B. Vocelle, Jr. Robert Wesley Sarah M. Yoho Deborah A. Schroth Barry Sinoff Sarah Steinbaum Honorable Emerson R. G. B. McVay Voght Honorable John D. Nicholas Yonclas Thomas J. Schulte, Sr. Martin B. Sipple Martin Leonard Steinberg Thompson, Jr. George Volsky Wessel George T. Yoss Dawn B Schulz Edward Sirkin F.E. Steinmeyer, III William L. Thompson, Jr. Cindy S. Vova E. Scott Westheimer Burton Young George E. Schulz, Jr. Teresa Sjogren John Stephens, Jr. John Thomson John K. Vreeland Dennis M. Whalen Gwynne A. Young Robert Schumaker G. Neil Skene Charles R. Stepter, Jr. Melinda Thornton Tu-Quynh Nguyen Vu Honorable James W. Joshua Young Carl Schuster Halcyon Skinner Jerome H. Stern Richard Joseph Thornton George L. Waas Whatley Paul Young Holly Davidson Schuttler Jonathan Skipp Roslyn L. Stevenson Ronald G. Thornton Bill Wagner Claudia Wheeler Russell Young Carl B. Schwait H. Curtis Skipper Wilma D. Stevenson Honorable John W. J. Jeffry Wahlen James J. Wheeler Stuart A. Young Richard Schwamm J. Skipper Arnold Obie Stewart* Thornton, Jr. Mary L. Wakeman Carol A. Wherry Stephen N. Zack Kenneth Schwanger Sallie D. Skipper Joan Stewart Christine M Thorson Andrew Waks William Whitaker Edward Zebersky Jill Schwartz Holly Skolnick John M. Stewart John Tiffin Stanley H. Wakshlag Larry Kay White Thomas Zehnder Joseph Schwartz S. Harold Skolnick Larry Scott Stewart E. Ralph Tirabassi Sylvia H. Walbolt William White, III Louise Zeuli Philip B. Schwartz Harrison T. Slaughter, Jr. William L. Stewart Anthony J. Titone James H. Walden* John G. White, III Salome J. Zikakis Paul J. Schwiep Peter David Slavis Dori Katrine Stibolt Marcia Tjoflat Royce B. Walden Crystal Whiteaker Kurt D. Zimmerman Gregory Lee Scott Richard W. Slawson Adele I. Stone Allen R. Tomlinson Aleida Ors Waldman Joshua Whitman Barry Zisser Neil Scott Lisa S. Small Todd Ian Stone Joel Toomey Honorable David Seth Marva Wiley Juan Carlos Zorrilla Robert C. Scott Alvin Smith, M.D .* Paul Anthony Straske Stephanie Jean Toothaker Walker John Wilke Julius James Zschau Christian D. Searcy Andrea T. Smith Richard Straughn Frank Toral Deana Walker James Donovan Harry Zukernick* Stephen H. Sears Chesterfield H. Smith* Arnold Maurice Straus Alfred Walker Torrence, Jr. Frank C. Walker Wilkerson Joel Zwemer James E.L. Seay Douglas H. Smith Marilyn Strauss Clay Tousey, Jr. Joan LoBianco Walker C. Gary Williams William M. Seider Frank Smith David Updegraff Strawn Ronald Toward Stephen Alan Walker Jeannine S. Williams Six Fellows wish to remain Honorable Patricia A. Glenn N. Smith Thomas Edmund Streit George Euripedes Tragos Vernetta Walker Reginald L. Williams* anonymous. Seitz H.T. Smith Honorable Jeffrey Earl Robert Traurig William Wallace William E. Williams * indicates a deceased Floyd R. Self Harry B. Smith Streitfeld A. Rodger Traynor, Jr. Honorable Waddell Arlie John W. Williams, Jr. Fellow Lawrence E. Sellers, Jr. Kinnear K. Smith Barbara Strickland Johnnie Trevena Wallace, III Honorable O. Edgar Mary Selter Honorable Rodney Smith John Strickland William Trickel, Jr.* Michael P. Walsh Williams, Jr. Fellows as of November Stephen R. Senn Samuel S. Smith* William C. Strode Matthew Triggs Michael Raymond Walsh Douglas M .Williamson 18, 2008 Joseph H. Serota Victor Smith Gary Strohauer Theodore L. Tripp, Jr. Clifford Walters Claudia Willis The Gift That Gives Back

ormer Florida Bar Foundation president Rod Petrey has long been a be spent for very good works that supporter of the Foundation, but recently he signed on to a new giving are related to the legal profession Fprogram that will pay dividends on his generosity. and help lawyers fulfill duties to the community.” The first donor to establish a charitable gift annuity with the Foundation, Petrey now receives a steady lifetime income stream through the annuity, although his primary motivation was to help support the Foundation’s mission. How It Works A gift annuity allows a donor to give “The Foundation is very near and dear to me,” said Petrey, president of the Collins at least $10,000 to the Foundation Center for Public Policy. “It does spectacularly good work for legal justice.” and receive a fixed income for life Tim Bachmeyer, the Foundation’s director of development, said donors who are based on the donor’s age. The Rod Petrey passionate about an organization’s mission still want to know that it will be a good payout is guaranteed by the assets of the Foundation, and by its conservative steward of their contributions. investment policies. About 90 percent of the Foundation’s total expenses go directly toward its Other benefits include the opportunity for a donor to: grant programs, and the Foundation’s careful stewardship has been able to • Name himself and/or another person as the beneficiary, or name both ensure stable funding for its grantees even in the current economic climate. as joint lifetime beneficiaries in the gift annuity • Receive an upfront charitable income-tax deduction for a portion of the gift Petrey knew he could be confident in the Foundation’s wise use of • Receive a portion of each payment tax-free. his contribution. For more information contact Tim Bachmeyer at (800) 541-2195 (FL)/ “The funds are well invested and well supervised. You know it’s going to (407) 843-0045 or at [email protected]

15 Tribute and Memorial Gifts 2006-2008

In Honor of... Michael J. Faehner Walter F. Lambert Richard D. Saba T. Glenn Jackson, Jr. Johnnie Ridgely Douglas H. Smith by Suncoast Chapter by Robin Halpern Greene Thomas J. Sherrard, III by Barbara Clements by Burton Young by Young Lawyers Section The Florida Bar Staff of the Association Honorable William A. Van Heller Revocable Trust of The Florida Bar by Francisco R. Angones of Fundraising Christopher Leklem Nortwick, Jr. Honorable Paul H. Roney Georgina A. Angones Professionals by John Leklem Gertrude Kaupinen by Burton Young Kathryn Ann Soltis Pinellas County Estate Rosalie Diner by Carol A. Wherry by Dianne Misiak Danielle Adams Planning Council Miles A. McGrane, IV by Jane Elizabeth Curran Bernice Setnor by Michelle C. Lyles by Miles A. McGrane, III Nancy Elaine Kennon by Jane Elizabeth Curran Lillian Sussman Christopher DeShaun Robert L. Floyd by Hans Kennon by Alex Nemiroff Francisco R. Angones Horne In Memory of. . . by Burton Young Alvin E. Smith by The Florida Bar by Bruce B. Blackwell Ruth Elizabeth Mruz by Tod Aronovitz Pierre A. Valbrun Michele Kane Cummings S.L.Badger, Jr. Alain Gaumier by Jane Elizabeth Curran Edward R. Blumberg by Thomas R. Spencer, Jr. Georgina A. Angones Julio C. Jaramillo by Jane Elizabeth Curran by Burton S. Liebesman Alan B. Bookman by The Florida Bar Reginald Luster Gary Curtis Pajcic Howard Coleman Coker Sheila Young Dominic C. MacKenzie Michael Bryant Lois Thacker Graessle by Young Lawyers Section Henry M. Coxe, III by Jane Elizabeth Curran Thomas M. Danahy Miles A. McGrane, III by Maria E. Henderson by Jane Elizabeth Curran of The Florida Bar Jesse H. Diner by Georgia R. Danahy Kathleen S. McLeroy John C. Patterson, Jr. Kelly Overstreet Johnson John C. Patterson, Jr. Jon C. Peterson Esther Glick Groundine John J. Raymond, Sr. Miles A. McGrane, III Mayanne Downs Scott Rost George Steven Pfeiffer by Jane Elizabeth Curran by Burton Young Edith G. Osman by Bruce B. Blackwell Adele I. Stone Herman J. Russomanno

Lawyer’s Challenge for Children 2006-2008

On behalf of the thousands of children served Theodore Deckert Lyann Goudie Marcus Levy Michael Anthony Ponzoli John Chun Hung Siu by Foundation Children’s Legal Services grants, Tamara Yang Demko Marla Grant Raquel Nurith Libman Randy J Pope Kathryn Slade thank you for supporting our activities through Jeanie Michelle Demshar Javier Guadayol Nicole Lindsey Deborah Alison Posner Brande Schwartz Smith Carlos Diaz-Padron Daniel Garvin Hall Diane Lindstrom Beach Jessica Prause Richard Durwood Sneed your contribution to the Lawyers’ Challenge William Peter Richard Alan Halpern Brenda G. Long Colleen Ann Preston Kenneth Sobel for Children on the Florida Bar Annual Fee Dimitrouleas Heather Noel Hanson William Todd Long Jerald Steven Price Neal R. Sonnett Statement. Your gift will be added to the John Albert Doninger Elizabeth Harris Maria delosAngeles Sara Pritchard Randi Perry Spallina Foundation’s Children’s Legal Services grant Michael H Doran Hugh Weston Hedley Lopez-Belio Susette Camille Putman Kimberly Spiker program to serve poor children throughout Eric David Dorsky Nelly Jo Chebli Heidbrink Judith Anne Luengas Michael J Quesada Charlton Stoner Florida. Donors to the Lawyers’ Challenge for Paul C. Doyle David G. Helfrich Jodi R Lustgarten Zelica Marie Grieve Edward N. Stoner Children of more than $100 are listed here. Rosanne Michele Duane James Helinger Kathryn Dale MacKinnon Quigley Marilyn Strauss Kathleen Ann Dubin Susan Abrams Helms Erick Schulz Magno Randall Ritch Raudt Jaime Enrique Suarez While donors of less than $100 are too David Earl Dunnavant Karen Hendricks Kathie Jo Malti Johanna Ravelo Elizabeth Taub numerous to include in this report, we do wish Marta Camille Robert David Hertzberg Janie Lee Mangieri Robert A Ray Leza S. Tellam to express our gratitude to them and have included Díaz-Merheb Brian Dean Hess Bradford Eugene Maris John Chaney Reber Honorable Lynn Tepper them in our complete list at www.flabarfndn.org. Carolina A Echarte Rose J Hilbelink Marilee Anne Mark Kimberly Ackourey Reddy Deborah Haas Thaler Julia Patricia Eckart Christopher Mat Hittel Karen L Martin Janet Reno Lola Bohn Thomas Geico Philanthropic Brooke J. Bowman Raymond Thomas Elligett Peter Mark Hockman D Michael Mathes Aaron Resnick Melinda Thornton Foundation Karl Bozicevic Ramona Dee Elliott Lee Hollander Patrick Matusky Honorable Bonnie Lano Honorable John W. Richard Abramowitz Sharon Bush Brandford Patricia Owocki Ellis Kathleen K. Holloway Jim McDonald Rippingille Thornton, Jr. David Craig Albert Ruth Anne Braun Renee E. Emrick Charles J Honara Margaret Jean McLaren Jorg Menriv Rivera Jose Angel Toledo Thomas John Ali Kathleen Louise Brennan Michelle Cindy Englander Jack Douglas Hoogewind Carrington Madison Mead James McKee Robinson Brian Michael Torres Jane Kilduff Alpert David Ross Bridger Andrew Herbert Erdman Jorge Enrique Hurtado Richard Joseph Meehan Layon Franklin Robinson Craig P Tregillus Arlir Manuel Amado Ruth E. Bright Kim Elaine Evers Cheryl Kroeze Jackson Edgar Baird Miller Anne Batchelor Robjohns Robert Sweeney Troy Bernard James Apperson David S. Bromley Mark Charles Extein Suzanne C Jarvis Douglas Milne David Allan Roby Cynthia G Tymeson James Leonard Arnold David S. Bromley William Franciso Fabra H Wesley Johnson Debra Jill Mitan Nancy Jean Rocker Jeanne Underhill Luis Artime Henry Miller Bugay Tony Michael Fineman Douglas Earl Jones Michael James Moore Carlos Augusto Rodriguez Milagros R Vazquez Michael Joseph Babboni John Joseph Bulfin Daniel Patrick Fischetti Pamela Maureen Jones William T. Moore Christy Rodriguez Doris Vigo Richard B Badgley Adam J Buss Stephen Mayhew Fisher Michael Roy Kaufman Claude Thurman Donna Louise Rooney Jorge Patrick Villoldo Richard M Bales Rosa Busto-Pina Barry Stuart Fishman Carol Lynn Benson Moorman John Chandler Ross Steven Gerard Vitale William Cook Ballard Dennis Scott Cameron Tim Michael Flaherty Kendall Maria Cristina Moreno Catherine Ann Roth Majid Vossoughi Mary Melissa Baltz Michael J Cappucio Joanne Danielle Flanagan Hans Kennon Arie Mrejen James David Rowlee Janessa Benamou Gary Allyn Barcus David William Celentano Patricia Kimball Fletcher Ann L. Kerr Alex Nemiroff Lloyd L Ruskin Wasserman Scott Wilson Barger Susan Cary Cockfield Jeffrey Alan Foor Martin Andrew Klug Alan Stephen Novick Terrence Russell Dirk Robert Weed Myron Paul Barlow Michael Jay Cohen Jeffrey Eric Foreman Kathryn D Kohler John M. Paradis Lee Sanderson Judith Lee Weinstein Mary Jane Bass Stephan Lawrence Cohen Margaret Smallwood Fox Chris Nicholas Kontaridis Pamela Pardo Christian Read Sawczyn Christine Leona Welstead Dora Lilia Beatty Kenneth Fluent Conrad Jana Marie Fried Abe Koss Benjamin Charles Nancy Schleifer Lisa Daniel Wentz Joseph W. Beatty A. Hamilton Cooke Wendy Ellen Friedberg Timothy Joseph Kotsis Pargman Anne Ruth Schultz Marc David Wigder Leo Becerra Charles Andrew Coomes Lisa Gallagher Albert J Krieger Jean Kavanaugh Parker David Morris Schwartz Patricia Rymar Williams Jeffrey Haines Beck Lsura J. Cox Kelly Jean Howard Garcia Erin Elizabeth Kucerik Robert Clayborne Parker Elias C Schwartz Timothy Morgan Williams Susan Neiswender Black Willem Alexander Daman James Andrew Gardner Joseph Brian Landy Saul L Paster Julie Maris Schwartz Kathryn L Winsberg Sebrina Giaffis Blackburn Robert Peter Daniti Laura Beth Gardy Diane Gilliam LeRoy Jason Michael Peery Hubert I Sears Michael Allan Wolf Homer Austin Chandler Jenifer Melander Davis Michael Gaschler John Leklem Christopher Keith Pegg Stephen H. Sears Sandra K. Wolkov Bliss Arturo Fernandez Rita McAndrews Giblin Mónica Leon Manuel Antonio Perez Marvin Barry Seidman Steve Yedinak Byron Block De Castro Frederick Philips Gilliam Cindy L Lerner Nerlyn Gonzalez Pierson Seymour Sy Sherr Thomas L. Young Carlos J. Bonilla Sarah DeLaurentis Richard M. Goldstein Dana J Lesemann John Andrew Piliponis Ronald E. Sholes Cheryl Elyse Zuckerman Ronald Lee Book Peter Angel DeSantis Juan M Gonzalez Markham Richard Muriel Plevy Alan Silverstein Yasmine Zyne Roxanne Joan Dean Elana B. Goodman Leventhal Alan James Polley Pamela Angela Simonton A Just Legacy

aul Doyle has long been considered an institution in legal aid circles, having dedicated a nearly 40-year career to providing justice to the P poor. Now Florida Legal Services has dedicated its new building to him. The Florida Legal Services Inc. headquarters in Tallahassee will be named the Paul Doyle Justice Center. Doyle, director of The Florida Bar Foundation’s Legal Assistance for the Poor (LAP) and Law Student Assistance (LSA) grant programs, has “laid out a road map to forge paths in legal aid,” said Kent Spuhler, executive director of Florida Legal Services. “There’s probably no other person who has impacted the way Paul Doyle Paul Doyle Justice Center that legal assistance has been delivered to the poor as he has,” Spuhler said. legal assistance for Florida’s poor through the Foundation’s LAP and LSA After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1961, Doyle served as director of programs. Doyle said it was a “total shock and humbling experience” to be several legal services programs, worked as a state and local government attorney, honored by having the Justice Center named for him. and was a partner in a Jacksonville law firm. “I think the building symbolizes that Florida Legal Services is going to be an In 1990, Doyle started his work with the Foundation as director of The Joint aggressive advocate for the poor in the courts and administrative agencies,” Florida Bar/Florida Bar Foundation study on the delivery of legal services to the Doyle said. “It also signifies that they’ll be there to be a beacon of collaboration indigent. He has since provided his expert guidance in overseeing the funding of for the 30 legal aid programs across the state for the pressing needs of the poor.”

16 The 2008 Steven M. Goldstein Award for Excellence

his competitive, biennial Fresco of Holland & Knight in award was established in Jacksonville. memory of Steve Goldstein, T The first runners-up were Florida a tireless advocate for the poor Institutional Legal Services and throughout his career as a legal Southern Legal Counsel for services attorney and professor of “Right to Treatment Issues of law at Florida State University, Florida’s Civil Confinement of Sex through his extensive pro bono Offenders,” a project to protect the work, his service to the Foundation constitutional and statutory rights as a member of the board of to treatment of persons being directors and chair of the Legal indefinitely civilly committed for Assistance for the Poor grant sex offenses. The lead attorneys committee. The award recognizes were Kristen Lentz, Cassandra projects of significant impact Capobianco, Peter Sleasman and undertaken by Foundation Legal Foundation President Bruce Blackwell, second from right, presents the 2008 Steven M. Christopher Jones of Florida Assistance for the Poor grantees. Goldstein Award to (from left) pro bono counsel Leon Fresco of Holland & Knight in Institutional Legal Services and To be eligible, the project must Jacksonville, Christopher Jones of Florida Institutional Legal Services in Gainesville, Alice Nelson of Southern Legal affect a substantial number of Randall Berg of the Florida Justice Institute in Miami, and pro bono counsel George E. Schulz Jr., also of Holland & Knight in Jacksonville. Counsel in Gainesville. poor persons, address an important poverty-law issue, involve a significant mentally ill and developmentally disabled, from abuse The second runner-up was the Legal Aid Service commitment of grantee program resources and staff, and neglect. The lead attorneys on the project were: of Broward County for “Code Enforcement and reflect legal work of a high professional level. Cassandra Capobianco, Kristen Lentz and Christopher Advocacy,” a project to stop the gentrification and Jones of Florida Institutional Legal Services in loss of homestead properties in a historically low- In 2008, the Steven M. Goldstein Award was presented Gainesville; Randall Berg, Peter Siegel and Joshua income, black community. The lead attorney on to Florida Institutional Legal Services and the Florida Glickman of the Florida Justice Institute in Miami; the project was Sharon Bourassa. Justice Institute for the Vulnerable State Prison Inmates and pro bono counsel George E. Schulz Jr. and Leon Project, intended to protect inmates, particularly the Medal of Honor Awards

he Florida Bar Foundation Medal of Cooke was presented the Medal of Honor in the Honor Award Program was established in lawyer category for his many contributions to 200 8 – Terrence Russell T 1977 to recognize outstanding achievements providing access to justice for those living in poverty in improving the administration of justice in throughout Florida, and his devoted service to “Terry Russell stands as the touchstone by which Florida in two categories. HabiJax, his local Habitat for Humanity affiliate so many take the measure of their lives.” in Jacksonville. Cooke was co-chair of the joint The first category is for a member of The Florida Florida Bar/Florida Bar Foundation Commission Russell was the Bar who has demonstrated his or her dedication on the Delivery of Legal Services to the Indigent in recipient of the to the objectives of the Bar as set out in the rules Florida, which helped shape the future of legal Medal of Honor in regulating the Florida Bar: “to inculcate in its services delivery to Florida’s poor. He also the lawyer category members the principles of duty and service to the championed mandatory IOTA and successfully for his exceptional public, to improve the administration of justice, argued before the Florida Supreme Court for its lifelong compassion and to advance the science of jurisprudence.” adoption, which significantly increased funding and undaunted efforts The second is for a non-lawyer or person not for legal services in Florida. to secure the first actively engaged in the practice of law who has made appropriation for an outstanding contribution to the improvement of legal assistance for the administration of justice through research, writing, 200 7– Dr. Walter F. Lambert the poor made Terrence Russell and or other deeds of such character and quality that, in by the Florida Bruce Blackwell the judgment of the Foundation, warrant the highest “The epitome of the caring man, Walter F. Lambert Legislature. During his year as Florida Bar President, award that can be bestowed by the Foundation. has taken the Hippocratic Oath of ‘first, do no Russell led every aspect of advocacy for the passage and funding of the Florida Access to Civil Legal The service activities of our Medal of Honor harm,’ one step further by striving always to Assistance Act, including walking the corridors of the recipients could fill more pages than there are in ‘first, do some good.’” Capitol for hours to persuade legislators. this report. The following is a brief summary of the contributions of each, along with an excerpt from his or her award citation. 200 8– Elizabeth Lander Bell

“Florida is a better place today 2007 – A. Hamilton Cooke and will be a better place tomorrow because of Budd “[He has an] unparalleled commitment to making Bell. Her selfless, tireless and the ideal of equal justice under law a reality for effective advocacy not only the poor and for those with unpopular causes . . . gave voice to those with none, Ham Cooke walks the walk.” but inspired others to unite in speaking up for the impoverished and downtrodden .”

Bell was presented the Medal Dr. Walter F. Lambert and John W. Thornton, Jr. of Honor in the non-lawyer Elizabeth Lander category for over four decades “Budd” Bell Lambert was awarded the Medal of Honor in of volunteer advocacy to the non-lawyer category for his life's work as a improve the lives of Florida's children, elderly and medical advocate for abused and neglected children disabled persons. In her many years of public and for his significant volunteer work for South service, Bell founded what is now Kids Incorporated Florida children in foster care. As long-time of the Big Bend to provide affordable day care in Medical Director of the Child Protection Team Tallahassee; The Clearinghouse on Human Services for Dade and Monroe counties, Lambert has to increase the number of advocates for the poor served as the voice for deserted children in the and powerless; and The Florida Center for Children courts, and his expert testimony has brought and Youth, a critical resource in Tallahassee. Her justice and charted their future well-being. John W. Thornton, Jr. and A. Hamilton Cooke advocacy for the elderly and disabled, who were being warehoused in mental hospitals, led to the adoption of the Baker Act that gave people the right not to be institutionalized unless they are a danger to themselves or others.

17 Profile of the IOTA Account Portfolio ENDOWMENT as of June 30, 2008 The Foundation In 1991, the Foundation established Than ks You an Endowment as a permanent source Total Number of IOTA Accounts ...... 26,360 of support for all of the Foundation’s Many attorneys, law firms and other Weighted Average IOTA Account Interest Rate ...... 0.74% charitable activities. Initial funding for organizations contributed to our success in 2006-2008 through pro Total Principal Balance in IOTA Accounts ...... $3.01 Billion the Endowment came from $1 million bono services and other in-kind in unrestricted IOTA investment Average Balance per Account ...... $114,240 support for the Foundation itself. earnings, the income from which Number of Lawyers Participating in IOTA ...... 33,370 will fund IOTA grants exclusively. • Ava Doppelt, Esquire Number of Banks Participating in IOTA ...... 329 In 2007-2008, additional Endowment Allen Dyer Doppelt et. al. Orlando funding came from $272,506 in IOTA eligible funds: Client and third-person funds shall be deposited in a lawyer’s or law firm’s IOTA account unless the funds can otherwise earn donations and other contributions • Mark D. Passler, Esquire income for the client or third person in excess of the costs incurred to increasing the total Endowment net Akerman Senterfitt secure such income. assets to $5,714,414 as of June 30, 2008. West Palm Beach • Lawrence Ploucha, Esquire Atkinson Diner Stone Mankuta & Ploucha P.A. Kids Deserve Justice Matching Gift Companies Fort Lauderdale As of June 30, Many corporations and law firms will match employee • Bruce H. Roberson, Esquire 2008, more contributions to The Florida Bar Foundation. Some will Holland & Knight Tampa than 1,900 match gifts made by their directors and spouses of employees. people had To encourage matching gift opportunities, The Florida Bar • Adele Stone, Esquire shown their Foundation attributes matching gifts to the responsible donor. Atkinson Diner Stone Mankuta support for The recognition of donors is determined therefore by the & Ploucha P.A. Fort Lauderdale children’s legal services by purchasing a donor’s total annual gift — his or her personal contribution Kids Deserve Justice specialty license plus any resulting matching gift received during the fiscal year. • Virginia B. Townes, Esquire plate. All proceeds from sales of the plate Akerman Senterfitt Orlando are used to support children’s legal Thank you to the following companies and foundations who services, protecting the rights of our contributed to The Florida Bar Foundation through their • Donald Carlton Works III, Esquire most vulnerable residents. For more matching gift programs: Jackson Lewis et. al. information, call the Foundation or visit: Orlando GEICO Philanthropic Foundation www.flabarfndn.org/KidsDeserveJustice. Florida Trend • Raymond Jam es Fin ancial Miami

Florida Lawyers Mutual • FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Combine d f or F o un d ati on and Endowment) Insurance Company

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Florida Civil Lega l Assis tance IOTA Fl orida Civil L egal Assistance IOTA Act Cont ract 2.92 % 86.7% Act Con tract 5.15% 87.9% $2,446,654 $2,579,647 $44,002,428 Your Banker $72,619,095 Fellows Cont ributions 0.28 % Miscellan eous Contribu tions 0.37% $234,115 $183,769 Lawyers’ Chall enge for C hild ren 0.15 % Law yers’ Chall eng e for Chi ldren 0.32% eptember 1981 marked $125,714 $161,120

Miscellaneous Cont ributions 0.09 % Fel lows Contribu tions 0.25% implementation by the Florida $78,127 $126,610 Miscellaneous Incom e 0.07 % Miscellan eous Inc ome 0.16% Supreme Court of the country’s $55,512 $81,748 S Kids Dese rve Justi ce Licen se Plate Kids Des erve Ju stice Lic ense Plate first IOTA program and the beginning Sales and C ont ributions 0.05 % S ales and Contribu tions 0.09% $38,752 $45,954 of an important source of support for civil legal assistance to the poor, 20 06- 2007 Expen ses 20 07- 2008 Exp en ses $29,951,871 $36,408,494 projects to improve Florida’s justice system and programs to promote public service by law students. While we often Foundation Grants Foundation Grants and Relate d Activit ies* and R elated Acti vities*

90% 91.5% mark that milestone and thank those $26,952,062 $33.324.179 responsible, we don’t publicly recognize Management Management and Genera l and General often enough Florida’s banking 8.6% 7.2 % $2,586,723 $2,626,206 community. IOTA works because of

Fundraising Fundraising the support and cooperation of Florida 1.4% 1.3% $413,086 $458,109 banks — from the superb bank staff who make sure monthly remittance 2006-2007 Breakout of Grants 2007-2008 Breakout of Grants information and interest gets to the

and Related Activities* and Related Activities* Foundation, to the teams who worked $26,952,062 $33,324,179 so closely with the Foundation to

implement the interest rate Legal Assistance Leg al A ssistance for the Poor for the Poor comparability rule, to the leaders of 89.2% 92.3% $24,038,715 $30,761,982 the Florida Bankers Association who Administration Ad ministration of Justice of Justice step up to the plate and help IOTA 8.1% 5.2% $2,180,902 $1,732,818 achieve its full potential. The

Law Student Law Student Foundation, its grantees and those Assistance Assistance 2.7% 2.5% they serve are very grateful for the $732,445 $829,379 successful partnership between the Fundraising and management and general expenses represent 10% and 8.5% of the Foundation’s total activities in 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, respectively. legal and banking communities that Audited financial statements are available from the Foundation upon request. The Foundation’s IRS Form 990 is available on the Foundation’s is Florida’s IOTA program. Web site at www.flabarfndn.org. *Foundation grants are based upon the net revenues of the fiscal year preceding the year being reported. These amounts may differ from the grants listed elsewhere in this report due to conditional and multi-year grants. 18 Annual Dinners

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2008 ANNUAL DINNER 4 1 . Florida Supreme Court Justice R. Fred Lewis 2. A. Hamilton Cooke and John Patterson 3. Julie and Bruce Blackwell 4. Larry Bostic, who was exonerated with help from the Innocence Project of Florida Inc., a Florida Bar Foundation AOJ grantee 5. 1st DCA Judge Bill Van Nortwick Jr. and Maria Henderson 6. Hank Coxe and Bruce Blackwell 5 7. Mary Kay and Terry Russell with Adele Stone

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