Lorena Jiron’s path to law followed a personal tragedy—the death of her mother from cervical cancer in 2009. Jiron, a recent graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont who was an only child, was suddenly forced to deal with creditors and administer her mother’s estate alone.

“At the time I just felt so incredibly vulnerable,” she said. “If I had known a lawyer, if I had had any kind of knowledge about the legal system, I wouldn’t have felt that way.”

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