Fort Lauderdale attorney Juliette E. Lippman will take office July 1 as second vice president of The Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide charitable organization whose mission is to provide greater access to justice.
A partner with Kirschbaum, Birnbaum, Lippman & Gregoire, PLLC, Lippman is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator. She has received many accolades for her service, including The Florida Bar Family Law Section Chair’s Special Award of Merit and the Broward County Bar Association’s Joseph J. Carter Professionalism Award. Her law firm was named Law Firm of the Year in 2015 and 2009 by Legal Aid Service of Broward County and Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida.
Lippman earned her bachelor’s degree at George Washington University and her law degree at Nova Southeastern University School of Law. She is vice chair of The Florida Bar Foundation’s grants committee and serves on the executive and investment committees. In addition to her service on the Foundation’s board, she is chair of the Children’s Diagnostic and Treatment Center, a nonprofit organization that serves more than 11,000 children with special health-care needs in Broward County.
Lippman is a Fellow of The Florida Bar Foundation and a member of the Foundation’s Bronze Society for lifetime giving.
The mission of The Florida Bar Foundation (www.TheFloridaBarFoundation.org) is to provide greater access to justice. The Florida Bar Foundation is the only funder linking 30 legal aid organizations in Florida to form a comprehensive, statewide legal services delivery system. Other Foundation programs include grants to improve the justice system and loan repayment assistance for attorneys at its legal aid grantee organizations. Principal support for the Foundation’s charitable activities comes from the Interest on Trust Accounts (IOTA) Program implemented by the Florida Supreme Court in 1981. Additional support comes from gifts by Florida attorneys, law firms, corporations, foundations and from other individuals.