Reading for the law used to be a very accepted practice. But if it’s coming from Oregon, it’ll be done wrong, and for the wrong reasons. The bar is actually a cartel.
I think that apprenticeship, in itself, is great. Most jobs could be taught through apprenticeships and it’s how they train people past school in Europe, because the guild system is still used in Europe.
However this is being done with an agenda which makes it a disaster, imo.
“Reading for the law used to be a very accepted practice. But if it’s coming from Oregon, it’ll be done wrong, and for the wrong reasons. The bar is actually a cartel.”
In the late ‘80’s I decided to change careers. I figured I could get a PhD in corporate psychology. I was working as an engineer. My plan was to quit work and apply myself fulltime. I figured I could do the whole program in 18 months. It would take a few years to make up the money I’d both lost by not working and spent on the degree. My sister knew someone who had just graduated from the program and put me in touch with him. He said, “Sure you could do the work, but you won’t get the degree until your major professor says you do. You will work as an indentured servant, writing his papers, grading his course work and sometimes picking up his laundry or taking his car to the garage. It will take you seven years because that’s how long it took him.” I suspect that working for a lawyer to become a lawyer will be much same.