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Florida Legal Services, Inc. 2425 Torreya Drive Tallahassee, FL 32303 Phone: (850) 385-7900 Fax: (850) 385-9998
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Florida Legal Services, Inc. (FLS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1973 to provide civil legal assistance to indigent persons who would not otherwise have the means to obtain a lawyer. A statewide support center, dedicated to ensuring poor people have equal access to justice, FLS fulfills its mission primarily by working with local legal aid and legal service programs to improve their ability to provide legal assistance to those in need in their communities. Providing service delivery coordination, training, case consultation and technical assistance to all legal service providers in Florida, FLS also is the coordinating organization for the first in the nation comprehensive Florida Supreme Court Voluntary Pro Bono Attorney Plan. 2008 Summer Fellows Trained & Ready For Duty
Legal Aid Day 2008
Miriam Harmatz in Medicaid victory.
Arthur Rosenberg honored by the Florida Coalition for the Homeless
The Migrant Farmworker Justice Project (MFJP) is a special advocacy project of FLS. FLS policy is established by a volunteer Board of Directors and is primarily funded by The Florida Bar Foundation and The Florida Bar. In February 1999, with funds provided by the Foundation, the PDA and Foundation representatives held a retreat at which numerous issues regarding Florida’s legal services to the poor delivery system were discussed. As the group talked about individual program and statewide accomplishments and the things that “made them most proud,” the phrase Energetic Affirmative Advocacy emerged as a statewide goal. The results were the state plan, "Reinvigorating Florida’s Legal Services Community".
Legal services embodies two basic principles: fidelity to our clients, and commitment to our community which is bound together by our devotion to equal justice. |
Information is available about FLS's ongoing Capital Campaign. Click the image below to learn how you can help FLS build justice in Florida.
Training Updates Click here for training/CLE opportunities from FLS. Updated 6/26/2008. FLS teams up with CLAE to deliver effective training. Read all about it! Bankruptcy Video Click here for an outstanding client-information video prepared by the Tampa Bankruptcy Bar and Bay Area Legal Services, Inc. Florida's new internet-based apartment search tool is on-line, and ready to use! This system lists apartments that have been assisted by state and local affordable housing programs and where vacant units are available. The tool allows anyone to search by specific city or county, by rent levels, by apartment size and features needed, and by other location needs. Click here to check it out! The Florida Bar Foundation 2006 Recipients Steven M. Goldstein Award for Excellence
First Place Florida Legal Services, Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County and Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association Prescription Drug Access Project First Runner-up Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. The Cuban-Haitian Entrant Project Second Runner-up Legal Services of North Florida, Inc. |
FLS Winners Left to Right: Katie Mahoney, Miriam Harmatz, Anne Swerlick,
Courtney Landreth, Shirley Spuhler