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Fostering Hope: Florida Foster Care Attorney Named ‘Super Lawyer’

June 11th, 2011   No Comments   News & Events

Howard Talenfeld, a leading children’s rights and civil rights attorney helping those in foster care with representation and damage claims, has been featured in 2011 ‘Super Lawyer’.

Florida civil rights and foster care attorney Howard Talenfeld has been named a 'Super Lawyer'

Florida civil rights and foster care attorney Howard Talenfeld has been featured in 2011 'Super Lawyer'

“Howard Talenfeld is fighting for Florida’s most vulnerable kids,” the publication wrote. The article profiles his work with Florida Youth SHINE, which pushes for improvements in Florida’s foster care system.

His policy efforts have found him partnering with The Florida Bar and Florida’s Children First to convince the Legislature to pay for mandatory legal representation of certain groups of high-needs children in dependency court. Talenfeld is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale law firm Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate, P.A.

It cites him as have “built a remarkable record of reforming Florida’s foster care, juvenile delinquency and mental health systems, while winning large class action and individual verdicts and settlements on behalf of children and adults injured while in those systems.” Read the entire article here.

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