“Every day at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law is stimulating and engaging. The staff creates an environment that facilitates learning and growth,” says 2014 Trope and Trope Public Interest Fellow Rochelle Smith (USC, 3L). Assigned one-on-one to staff attorneys for direction and supervision, interns get a lot of hands on experience drafting pleadings
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To equip low-income dads with tools to better understand the responsibilities of parenthood, the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law has designed a special legal education program for them. Presented in collaboration with the Fatherhood Project of Children’s Institute, Inc. (CII), a large social services agency serving disadvantaged families, the program is offered at sites
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The Northern California Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) awarded Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law Executive Director Betty Nordwind with the 2014 De Goff and Sherman Award for her significant and meaningful contributions to family law in California. AAML noted several of her achievements, including helping to develop the self-help model
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It turns out that the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law and Weight Watchers have more in common than you would think. Both are good organizations to improve one’s health. In an article appearing in the Journal of Legal Education a law prof stated that “a wide array of studies find that regular volunteering is
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As part of her quest to learn more about women struggling to make ends meet, investigative journalist Maria Shriver (pictured with Executive Director Betty Nordwind) visited the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law in early 2013. She spent the day in an intimate conversation with 4 of the Center’s clients and met with some of the Center’s staff and
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