Week of August 17th, 2026

The latest edition of Florida Bar News Briefs, a weekly podcast dedicated to what’s happening in the legal profession, is now available with stories including:

• Florida’s public defenders launching a campaign to bring starting salaries into parity with their prosecutor counterparts.
• The Business Law Section creating an AI Task Force.
• Legal Aid Service of Collier County receiving a $600,000 grant from the Naples Children Foundation to continue providing free civil legal services to at-risk children.

Florida Bar News Briefs is a production of The Florida Bar Journal & News Department's multimedia network/.