John Grisham donates his honorarium to sponsor law student interns
By Surajit Sen Sharma
In his latest act of philanthropy, John Grisham, ex-practicing attorney and one of the best-selling authors of the country, declared his intent to donate $20,000 to the Texas Access to Justice Commission. The money is the honorarium for his coming speech at the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting scheduled on June 21. Grisham’s contribution will be used in sponsoring law-student interns this summer for legal-aid work carried out under the aegis of the TAJC.
The internship program is a collaborative effort of all the nine law schools of Texas and the TAJC. The student-interns will work with legal aid attorneys from different parts of the state including lawyers from Angleton, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, Laredo, Tyler, San Juan, and Weslaco. The program takes civil legal aid to areas within the state that lacks a nearby law school, and it helps low-income residents gain access to civil justice with the aid of the students and legal aid attorneys.
In a bid to create and execute policy initiatives for increasing the quality and access of civil justice available to low income Texans, the Supreme Court of Texas had formed the TAJC in 2001. Since then, the TAJC has made consistent contributions to legal welfare in the state. The present project, which will run from May to July, includes training and orientation sessions for law students, where the interns learn the fundamentals of interviewing and counseling clients as well as issues regarding professional responsibility.
Expressing his gratitude for the deans of all law schools who have been supportive of the project, James B. Sales, the chair of TAJC said that the Commission was "very grateful to John Grisham for his generous donation which will help these young law students defray some of the costs of relocating for the summer."
Grisham, who needs no introduction as an author, was a practicing attorney before he went into writing novels. He returned to the courtroom in 1996 to honor a commitment he made before retiring from practice and fight a single lawsuit. He pleaded on behalf of the family of a railroad brakeman killed when caught between two railroad cars. Grisham won the case and succeeded to win an award of $683,500 for his clients.
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