Trope & Trope/USC Family Law Summer Fellowship
The Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law provides high quality family law assistance to low income persons in Los Angeles County. The Center focuses on legal problems involving custody, visitation, child and spousal support, cessation and prevention of domestic violence, establishment of paternity and dissolution of marriage.
The prestigious family law firm of Trope and Trope provides a grant to a USC Law School student who wishes to work in the area of family law at the Buhai Center. The amount of the grant for summer 2008 is $6,500.
Established in 1995 by the prestigious family law firm of Trope and Trope, the largest practice of its kind in the nation, the Trope and Trope/USC Family Law Summer Fellowship affords a USC Law student the opportunity to learn family law and serve the community. After a rigorous selection process, the student, under the guidance of Harriett Buhai Center attorneys, spends a 10-week summer period interviewing clients, analyzing legal issues, preparing pleadings, writing declarations, memoranda and other legal documents, engaging in research, limited discovery and a host of other tasks related to the practice of law.
In addition to hands on interaction with clients, the student experiences daily life in a non-profit environment, and meets students and staff from other legal services programs in the local area. Sorrell Trope, the distinguished founder and principal of the firm, was a mentor to Harriett Buhai, and expresses his delight in continuing her tradition of helping to assure equal justice under the law.
