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Israeli Group Honored for Legal Innovation

By Robert J. Ambrogi

The College of Law Practice Management this week named Israel's New Family Organization as winner of its 2009 InnovAction Award. This year for the first time, the COLPM also named the winner of an Honorable Mention, the New York-based legal services provider Practical Law Company. (By way of disclaimer, I should mention here that I was recently elected a fellow in the COLPM and am slated to be inducted as such at its annual meeting in September, where these award winners will also be recognized.) The InnovAction awards recognize outstanding innovation in the delivery of legal services. COLPM's blog explains why it selected New Family Organization for the award: Irit Rosenblum broke fresh ground defending a universal right to family as intrinsic to the practice of law. Rosenblum pioneered a new sphere of legal rights surrounding the family based on the conviction that the rights to marry, divorce, have children, bequeath and inherit assets, and conduct family life are human rights and must be attainable to all regardless of faith, nationality, sexual orientation or status. She founded New Family to fill a critical gap in the practice of law in Israel: to attain the right of every individual to establish...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 31, 2009 (boomark / email).