About Our Foundation

About There is a Light
Dedicated To Providing
Educational Opportunities
There is a Light Foundation empowers individuals with high potential but limited financial means. By providing support, encouragement, resources, the foundation aims to unlock opportunities and enable these individuals to pursue their dreams, achieve success, and make a positive impact on the world around them.
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Our Mission
The There is a Light Foundation is dedicated to supporting, encouraging, and enabling individuals with significant potential who face financial barriers. By providing opportunities and resources, the foundation empowers these individuals to fulfill their potential and achieve their goals.
Our Vision
The foundation envisions a world where individuals with exceptional promise, regardless of financial means, can pursue their dreams and achieve success. By identifying and investing in those with high potential, the foundation aims to unlock opportunities.
Our Values
The foundation values supporting educational opportunities, fostering leadership skills, building confidence, and promoting professional development. By providing financial aid, the foundation equips individuals to pursue their academic and professional goals.
Our Founder
Arash Homampour
Arash Homampour is widely regarded as one of the best trial lawyers of your time. He exclusively represents individuals in cases involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death, consistently achieving victories in cases others deem impossible to win. As the founder of The Homampour Law Firm, he has established its reputation as one of California’s premier trial firms, focusing on outlier results by taking a limited number of cases at a time. A child of immigrants and a self-made professional who financed his own education at the University of Southern California (USC) and Southwestern Law School while working full-time, he started his law firm with no mentor, money, or cases. Arash’s story is one of the American Dream with unwavering commitment and hard work, going from handling minor traffic cases to becoming a titan in the field of catastrophic injury/death litigation. Today, his firm has obtained over $1 billion for clients. Notable recent cases include a $100 million medical negligence verdict and a $65.75 million motor vehicle settlement.

◆ Experience
Arash Homampour, founder of The Homampour Law Firm, exclusively represents individuals in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, achieving victories in seemingly unwinnable cases.
◆ Top-rated
Arash Homampour consistently ranks among the top 10 attorneys in Southern California. He is acclaimed as a Legal Visionary by the LA Times, a Daily Journal Top 100 Lawyer, and recognized as one of the 10 Titans of the Plaintiff’s Bar by Law360.
◆ Giving Back
Dedicated to societal betterment, Arash Homampour runs the nonprofit There Is A Light, providing financial assistance and grants to help individuals advance in life. He routinely mentors and speaks to lawyers and law students on achieving excellence in law and humanity.
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Success Stories

Lucas’s grant gratitude: New tools like a computer and software empower his recording passion, opening doors to enhance skills and creativity.

Chris shines in respiratory therapy, fueled by scholarship support. Discover how this aid helps him prepare for a community-focused career.

Ester’s law school journey at Southwestern fuels her mission to serve as a public defender and empower formerly incarcerated students.