The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation represents the commitment of Pennsylvania Lawyers to promote youth justice education and to ensure equal access to the law for Pennsylvania's most vulnerable 


The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, improves the public's understanding of the law and its appreciation of democracy and strives to ensure that citizens, particularly Pennsylvania's most vulnerable, have full access to our legal system. We accomplish our mission by making grants, seeking financial support from individuals and organizations both within and outside of the legal community, and encouraging bar members to donate their time, talent and expertise in service to the public.
 

Night Out with the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation - Save the Date!!! 

Night Out At The Appalachian Brewing Company
Thursday, December 3 from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

Round trip transportation and five course BREW MASTER’S DINNER with expert commentary from the Brew Master Art Trafoya!

Come Relax after Committee/Section Day or Come in Early for the House of Delegates, But DON’T MISS IT!

The Honorable Annette M. Rizzo 2009 Recipient of the Louis J. Goffman Award 



Since 1989, the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, has recognized and rewarded outstanding pro bono service with the annual presentation of the Louis J. Goffman Award. This year, the Foundation honors the Honorable Annette Rizzo of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and the Philadelphia residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program, the city’s innovative response to the national mortgage foreclosure crisis that gives low income homeowners a real chance to save their homes from foreclosure.

Judge Rizzo, a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, received her jurist doctorate from Temple University School of Law. She practiced in private, government and corporate settings before being commissioned to the bench of the First Judicial District in January 1999, by then Governor Thomas Ridge. Later elected to the bench in November 1999, Judge Rizzo is presently assigned to the Civil Major Jury Program and presides over the residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program where she has been described as the program’s “heart, soul, mover and shaker.”

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