December 2, 2025
Jeffrey M. Hearne is the Chief Advocacy Officer at Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., the largest provider of civil legal aid for the low-income communities in Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Jeff oversees the firm’s significant litigation and provides a strategic focus to the firm’s advocacy in all its practice areas. Jeff has been an attorney at Legal Services for 24 years and has focused his career on preventing evictions and enforcing the rights of tenants. Jeff served as the Director of the Tenants’ Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law from 2010 until 2023. He served on the Florida Bar’s Civil Procedure Rules Committee (2019-2025) and as the co-chair of the Florida Housing Umbrella Group, the statewide association of tenant advocates. Jeff has received several honors for his work representing tenants, including the Consumer Protection Lawyer of the Year from the Florida Bar’s Consumer Protection Law Committee (2018), and the Housing Justice Award from the National Housing Law Project (2015). He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (J.D. 2001, B.A., Plan II, 1998).
Florida Health Justice Project engages in comprehensive advocacy to expand health care access and promote health equity for vulnerable Floridians.
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