The Partners in Service Program is here to help the members of the Florida Bar meet the goals of the pro bono rule by allowing attorneys voluntarily to contribute financially to LSNF's staff supported and pro bono efforts.

When attorneys support LSNF they are giving an Opportunity for Justice for all! Choose to support a project below for which you have a particular interest or let your contribution help us provide specialized programs.

• Domestic Violence Project - LSNF represents spouses and children who are abused or living in abusive households. Inability if abused women to escape often leads to costs for medical treatment and criminal prosecution. Inability to remove children from abusive environments leads to similar resulting behavior from those children when they reach adulthood.

• Homeless Legal Representation Project - LSNF helps prevent homelessness by representing people in eviction and foreclosure proceedings, helping them restructure debt through bankruptcy, and prioritizing cases that enhance clients' resources. Once homeless, LSNF provides outreach services to secure benefits and resolve other legal problems that enable clients to regain a sense of self-determination.

• Elderly Representation Project - Eighteen percent of our eligible population is elderly. LSNF provide outreach to all of the senior citizens sites on a monthly basis throughout its service area. LSNF assists elderly clients by protecting them from abusive consumer practices, preparing wills and durable powers of attorney, and preparing income trusts to all the physically impaired to obtain nursing home or other institutional placements.

• Rural County Outreach Services - LSNF covers a 16-county area, from Jefferson County on the east to Escambia County on the west. LSNF has four offices from which we deliver services located in Tallahassee, Quincy, Panama City, Ft. Walton Beach, Pensacola. Each office provides outreach services to the surrounding counties. Eligible citizens in our rural counties have difficult access problems to overcome in obtaining legal services. Because of the limited number of private lawyers in those counties to provide pro bono services, clients also have fewer alternatives.

• Children's Legal Representation Project -  Legal Services of North Florida, Inc. represents children with civil legal needs on a variety of issues including education, emancipation, and accessing mental health and other services.  Many of these children are involved in the juvenile justice system or the dependency system. 

• Community Service - Certificate of full complience with Pro Bono Rule sent upon receipt of payment of $350.00 or more.

• Charitable Giving - Section 501 (c) (3) income tax deduction for funds contributed.

• Partner's Choice Program - Choice of Legal Services projects to which you want your contribution to go.

• Recognition Program - Annual public recognition along with your peers for providing valuable services to low income citizens in need of legal representation.  View 2008 Law Day display ads in these area newspapers:  1st Circuit - Pensacola News Journal and Northwest Daily News; 2nd Circuit - Tallahassee Democrat; and, 14th Circuit - The News Herald.

• Donation to Important and Worthy Endeavor - Knowing that your contribution will provide an Opportunity for Justice and access to legal services for all citizens of you community.

• Assistance for Active Pro Bono Partners - For those attorneys who continue to accept pro bono referrals, LSNF will provide access to a law library in your area, professional legal support, access to pleadings in family, guardianship, and landlord/tenant law, and invitations to CLE trainings to support you efforts. Also, malpractice insurance is available when handling pro bono cases.

Email your contribution directly to LSNF through John Fenno. We need your name as it appears on your credit card, the amount of your contribution, MasterCard or VISA number, and the expiration date. Your mailing address and telephone number are also important. Please list the project to which you wish to contribute. All email contributions will be confirmed by return email or telephone. To make an immediate, completely safe online $350.00 contribution payment to become a Partners in Service, click on the button here. 

You may also printout and complete the LSNF Partners in Service forms below and return by mail (2119 Delta Blvd., Tallahassee, FL 32303), fax (850-385-5684), or email (john@lsnf.org).