Each year the committee choosing winners of the West scholarships reviews entries and selects two particularly outstanding students. West Group pays these students' expenses to travel to the Spring Convention to receive, in person, a plaque and a check from West, made jointly to the winner and his or her school. NFPA waives observer fees so the two students may observe all phases of the Convention. On May 6 in Honolulu, George Roles of Williamsport, PA, and Tali Simhoni of Hollywood, FL, were presented at the NFPA policy meeting as the 2000 West scholars. He volunteers for his children's activities such as PTA, Girl Scouts and Little League, is active in the adult literacy program, and sings solos for his church.
Roles is clearly a man who has mastered a paralegal's skills of time management and prioritizing.
He plans to utilize these in the workplace after he earns his associate's degree next December by working in a law office while he completes the last two years of study. Below is Roles' response. In the infancy of modern courts of justice, both substantive and procedural law were secreted with intricacies. Just prior to the birth of America, English litigation came to be rife with formality, ritual, rigidity, and abstruseness. Access to justice was difficult, if not impossible, for the average person.