Columbus Bar Foundation

The Columbus Bar Foundation is the charitable arm of the Columbus legal community. Working together, we strive to increase access to justice, improve the administration of justice and promote excellence in legal education through scholarships and grants.

Every gift, large or small, makes a difference in the lives of the people of this community. The Foundation is a great place to create a memorial for a loved one, pursue your own philanthropic goals or leave a lasting legacy to this community.

Recent News

February 12, 2010

Rock 'n Bowl 2010

The Columbus Bar Foundation would like to thank the following judges for participating in the 2010 Rock’n Bowl that raised over $100,000 for the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: Judges Ted Barrows, Laurel Beatty, Susan Brown, Kim Browne, Peggy Bryant, Kimberly Cocroft, Julie Dorrian, Richard Frye, Elizabeth Gill, Carrie Glaeden, Harlan Hale, Paul Herbert, Mark Hummer, William Klatt, Julie Lynch, Patrick McGrath, Dana Preisse, Patrick Sheeran, Anne Taylor, and G. Gary Tyack.

The Foundation also thanks for their support Cardinal Health, Carpenter Lipps & Leland, Chester Willcox & Saxbe, COTA, Columbus City Attorney’s Office, Dinsmore & Shohl, Downes Hurst & Fishel, Equal Justice Foundation, Franklin County Common Pleas Court, Freund Freeze & Arnold, Hahn Loeser & Parks, Isaac Brant Ledman & Teetor, Jones Day, Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter, Luper Neidenthal & Logan, Massucci & Kline, Paralegal Association of Central Ohio, Robert Weiler Company, Schottenstein Zox & Dunn, Shumaker Loop Kendrick, Ulmer & Berne, Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease, Weston Hurd, and the Women Lawyers of Franklin County.

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November 20, 2009

OSU Law Students Raise $1,500 for Foundation

The OSU Moritz College of Law Student Bar Association donated $1,500.00 to the Columbus Bar Foundation. The donation was the proceeds from their October 16 fundraiser Race Judicata.

Pictured, from left to right: Suzanne Mills (2L); Carson Barylak (2L); Foundation President Frank Ray; Kristen Delacruz (2L); and Jennifer Halas (1L).

 

 

 

November 3, 2009

Moyer Receives the Foundation's President Award

Columbus Bar Foundation President Frank Ray presented Chief Justice Thomas Moyer with the Foundation's highest honor, the President's Award, for his many years of commitment to improving access to the courts for the poor at the Foundation's Annual Pro Bono Luncheon on October 30. The Foundation's Luncheon was part of the ABA's first National Pro Bono Celebration.

The Foundation and the CBA annually recognize outstanding pro bono service. The 2009 honorees are:

LeeAnn M. Massucci for Outstanding Pro Bono Service to an Individual;

Bricker & Eckler LLP for Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Law Firm;

Hon. William A. Klatt for Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Judge.

The award recipients are selected by the CBA Pro Bono Committee Chaired by Lisa Eschleman. The Legal Aid Society of Columbus Executive Director Tom Weeks presented the LASC Excellence in Pro Bono Service by an Individual to James Abrams.

The American Bar Association’s Annual National Pro Bono Celebration was scheduled for October 25 through 31, 2009. Sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, the celebration is a coordinated national effort to showcase the great difference that pro bono lawyers make to the nation, its system of justice, its communities and, most of all, to the clients they serve. The week is also dedicated to the quest for more pro bono volunteers to meet the ever-growing legal needs of this country's most vulnerable citizens.