 Attending law school at the Jesuit School of Law, Trad met Charles Helou, another student in the law faculty.She graduated in 1931 with Blanche Ammoun, though Ammoun did not ever practice law.Later that year, on 7 October 1931, Paulette Ameslend Tamer, a French national, became the first woman to register with the bar association of the French Mandate of Lebanon.