8 Students to Serve as Interns in Law Offices

Eight area high school students will spend their summer vacations learning firsthand about a career in law while deciding if higher education is the way to go after graduation, as part of the Intensive Summer Law Education Program.

The four-week program, sponsored by the Constitutional Rights Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, brings students interested in college together with top law organizations in Los Angeles County, said Ieshia Black, ISLEP administrator.

Participants include Jaime Adame of Kennedy High School in Granada Hills and Maral Hadidi of Canyon High School in Canyon Country, who will intern at the law offices of Mark Avila; Lorena Gonzales, also of Kennedy High, who will intern with Trust Co. of the West, and Stephanie Lee of Granada Hills High School, who will work for Aronoff & Soukup.

Also participating, from Monroe High in North Hills, are Deva Kyle, who will intern with Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher; Alicia Lopez, who will intern with Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger; Ester Pobcrezhskaya, who will work for the county public defender’s office, and Diana Rivera, who will intern with the district attorney’s office.

ISLEP gives students a chance to learn about the legal process from professionals.

“We want to give them four weeks of life-skills training, seminars that will prepare them for college,” Black said.

The participants, along with 40 other high school students from Los Angeles County, are scheduled to begin classes Tuesday and their internships July 15.