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Listen: The World ProgramView showing Jacksonville legal secretary Rosemary W. Furman.
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Furman, who died in 1999, was a legal secretary in Jacksonville in the 1960s and '70s. After starting her own legal secretary service and realizing a major need for affordable legal services in the area she began helping poor women in Jacksonville fill out their legal paperwork for divorces and such. Since she wasn't a lawyer the Florida Bar began a legal battle with Furman for the unlicensed practice of law that would take them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case ended with her having to close her legal secretary business but the national media attention Furman brought to the issue of an affordable and accessible justice system pushed the Florida Bar to make some lasting changes.
From 1963 to 1992, photographer Donn Dughi worked for a number of media outlets in Tallahassee, including WCTV, the United Press International (UPI), and the Associated Press. From 1992 until his retirement in 2001, Dughi was a photographer for the Florida House of Representatives.
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