News/Press Releases
Winter 2021 Edition of The Legal Eagle Now Available
The winter edition of The Legal Eagle is now available. The Legal Eagle's winter issue contains articles on contact tracing apps, stay-at-home orders and paying college athletes. A PDF of The winter issue can be downloaded or individual articles can be read and...
NJSBF’s Latest Newsletter Dives into the Bill of Rights
If you're looking for civics material, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation has you covered from the First Amendment to the 27th! Its latest newsletter, The Bill of Rights Up Close, take a deep dive into the Bill of Rights. This 28-page newsletter contains 13 articles...
NJSBF Creates New Curriculum and Launches New Training for Breaking Bias: Lessons from the Amistad
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation (NJSBF) has launched a new school curriculum and an online training to complement the curriculum, which teaches African American history from an anti-bias perspective. The curriculum is for grades 3-12. The online curriculum, titled...
Available Now: Respect’s Special Women’s Rights Issue Celebrating 100 Years of the 19th Amendment
Don’t Miss It! The New Jersey State Bar Foundation has produced a special issue of its diversity newsletter, Respect. The Special Women's Rights Issue Celebrating 100 Years of the 19th Amendment is a super-sized edition containing the following headlines: Women's...
Special 2020 Election Edition Available—Request Copies Now
The fall 2020 Legal Eagle is now available. It is a Special 2020 Election Edition and here are the headlines you’ll find in the special issue: Mailing in the Votes High-Tech Not Always the Best When it Comes to Voting Sowing Seeds of Doubt to Suppress the Youth Vote...
NJSBF Congratulates Law School Scholarship Recipients
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation has awarded $42,000 in scholarships to 13 deserving students from New Jersey’s three law schools. For 30 years, the Bar Foundation has been awarding scholarships to worthy students entering their second or third year of law school....
NJSBF awards $100,000 in grants to nonprofits for law-related education during pandemic
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation (NJSBF) has awarded $100,000 in emergency grant funding to 21 nonprofit organizations in New Jersey that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Foundation’s Emergency Community Law Grants support nonprofit agencies as they...
NJSBF Announces Susan A. Feeney and Judge John E. Keefe Sr. as Its 2020 Medal of Honor Recipients
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation (NJSBF) is pleased to announce Susan A. Feeney and Judge John E. Keefe Sr. are the recipients of the 2020 Medal of Honor, its most prestigious award. The Medal of Honor is given annually to lawyers, law-related professionals and lay...
Foundation Creates COVID-19 Resource Page for the Public
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation is committed to informing New Jersey Citizens. With news about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis changing daily and often times coming at us at a dizzying speed, the NJSBF has put together in one place relevant information for the...
Teaching Remotely? – Let NJSBF Blogs Help
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation's three blogs are great resources for teachers who are teaching remotely during the Covid-19 virus crisis. The posts on all three blogs—The Informed Citizen, The Legal Eagle Lowdown & The Respect Rundown—contain discussion...