Freed To Run

Big Law, mediators and solo/small-firm teams enter into three-way Jacksonville Bar Association fundraising showdown for Freed to Run

Members of the Jacksonville Bar Association (JBA) representing Big Law, alternative dispute resolution and solo/small firms are entering into an epic battle to see who can garner the most support for Freed to Run 6.0, which is expected to fully fund an endowment for Jacksonville Area Legal Aid’s Northeast Florida Medical Legal Partnership (NFMLP) this November.

2022-09-08T11:43:48-04:00September 8th, 2022|Children's Health, Freed To Run, News|

Freed to Run leadership aims to cross the $2.25 million finish line to fully endow the Northeast Florida Medical Legal Partnership

As Gunster shareholder Mike Freed prepares for his sixth annual Tallahassee-to-Jacksonville Freed to Run trek Nov. 14-19, he is counting on the support of a group of community leaders to take his namesake event across its ultimate fundraising finish line of $2.25 million.

2022-07-11T16:34:00-04:00July 11th, 2022|Children's Health, Freed To Run|

Freed to Run Raises Millions for Pediatric Legal Needs for Five Years Running

Jacksonville attorney Mike Freed was motivated in 2016 to find a purpose that would bring together individuals in a positive effort focused on doing good. Raising money for indigent populations that were unable to obtain legal services was a logical choice for a lawyer, and Freed knew he wanted to go big to make an impact. But how? “I decided I would run across the state,” said Freed, a business litigation shareholder at Gunster. “But I wasn’t a runner! I taught myself over the next two months to run long distances, then ran a marathon. Eight months later, I ran six marathons in six days from the Supreme Court in Tallahassee to the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville and raised $67,000 for Jacksonville Area Legal Aid (JALA).”

2022-01-26T12:34:45-05:00January 26th, 2022|Children's Health, Freed To Run, News|

Jacksonville attorney: Volunteer lawyers needed nationwide to help COVID eviction tsunami

Jacksonville attorney Mike Freed has left his mark locally cultivating an annual series of marathons raising money for Jacksonville Area Legal Aid. Now he’s asking lawyers around the country to donate their time to help to help prevent a deluge of evictions rooted in the pandemic’s effect on jobs and incomes. “Sometimes you have to give up your time without compensation for the greater good,” said Freed, who is president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, an organization involving Bar associations in 53 states and U.S. territories.

2021-09-07T11:55:06-04:00September 7th, 2021|Fair Housing, Freed To Run, News|

Freed to Run 5.0 closing in on $2.25 million goal under the leadership of 2021 co-chairs

After raising nearly $1.5 million in its first four years, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid’s largest fundraiser, Freed to Run, will be closing in on its $2.25 million goal under the leadership of four newly appointed event co-chairs: Dr. Raoul Sanchez, president of Carithers Pediatric Group; Deno Hicks, managing partner of Converge Public Strategies for Northeast Florida; and attorneys Thomas E. Bishop and John S. Mills of Bishop & Mills.

2021-06-28T17:21:14-04:00June 25th, 2021|Children's Health, Endowment, Freed To Run, News|
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