Randall Berg to Receive Bar Foundation Award
The Miami civil rights attorney will be recognized for his pro bono work at the Florida Justice Institute and other organizations he founded.
May 16, 2017 at 05:00 AM
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Miami civil rights attorney Randall C. Berg Jr. will be given the Florida Bar Foundation's Jane Elizabeth Curran Distinguished Service Award recognizing people who have increased access to civil justice for the poor in Florida.
Berg founded and has served since 1978 as executive director of the Florida Justice Institute, a nonprofit public interest law firm that pursues civil rights litigation and advocacy on prisoner rights, housing discrimination and disability discrimination. The institute focuses on systemic civil rights litigation throughout Florida.
Berg also established and directed the Volunteer Lawyers' Project in the Southern District of Florida and created the Public Interest Law Bank pro bono project, now known as Put Something Back, for the Dade County Bar Association.
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