Pina Gulla, a second-year student at Albany Law School, got a unique education in the world of bureaucracy when she signed up for a summer of pro bono work at the New York City firm of Shearman & Sterling.
The 24-year-old Queens native spent more than 200 hours over a two-month period trying to help a widow named Maxima, originally from the Dominican Republic, whose husband Jose was killed on Sept. 11 at the Trade Center's Windows on the World restaurant.
For women like Maxima, who has no permanent residency papers, speaks no English and has two young children, getting access to the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund is a task that makes getting a green card look easy.
Gulla, who is fluent in Spanish, was vital to Shearman and Sterling, one of six city firms that agreed to help without …
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