Eric Traut of the Traut Firm served as Emcee for the Project SELF Legal Internship Recognition Dinner presented by the Orange County Bar Foundation and the Orange County Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators. Additionally, Traut Firm high school intern Graciela Castrejon received a $500 scholarship from the Banyard Inn of Court from Judge Kim R. Hubbard.
With the goal to inspire students to continue to strive for professional success, event keynote speaker Judge Francisco F. Firmat (ret.) addressed Project SELF interns, their families and about 200 members of the Orange County legal community during the annual Project SELF Recognition Dinner on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at the Chuck Jones Center in Costa Mesa, CA. The event celebrated this year’s record-breaking 68 students placed as interns throughout 53 Orange County law firms and law-related businesses through the Project SELF internship program providing low-to-middle income high school juniors with a hands-on summer internship.