The Florida Statewide Guardian ad Litem Program has received two awards from Florida TaxWatch as it continues to expand recruiting and training for volunteer lawyers for its programs and other pro bono efforts.

TaxWatch has given Productivity Awards to GAL’s Free Florida CLE: LeGAL Support for Your Pro Bono Practice and for the new I Am for the Child Academy, a web-based training program for attorney and non-attorney GAL volunteers. It’s the third year in a row that the office has received TaxWatch awards.

The training resources are timely, GAL Office Executive Director Alan Abramowitz said, as despite — or perhaps because of — the coronavirus pandemic there’s been a surge in lawyer and nonlawyer volunteers this year.

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