The institute has been dedicated to improving conditions in Florida's prison system and has initiated numerous class action lawsuits toward this end.
Berg also served on Governor Lawton Chiles' Transition Criminal Justice Task Force and is the past Chairman of the Corrections Committee.
These types of cases include wrongful death, deliberate indifference to serious medical need, unconstitutional conditions of confinement, excessive force, failure to protect, First Amendment (including free speech, censorship, and religious freedom), disability discrimination, and others.
The Florida Justice Institute and the Volunteer Lawyers' Project are both housed in office space donated by the law firm of Carlton Fields, P.A.
[5] In 2000 the institute was instrumental in eliminating Florida's Amendment 2, which would have enshrined the death penalty in the state's Constitution.