The one thing that most every lawyer out there has in common– at least in the U.S. and Canada, which a few exceptions – is that you went through law school on your way to becoming a lawyer. For at least the past 50 years, that is the path to the practice of law.

But if you ask most lawyers and law school grads, they will tell you that law school did not prepare them to enter the legal profession. That they had no idea how to actually practice law once they left the law school classroom. What is a law student or new law grad to do?

TAKEAWAY: law school doesn’t teach you how to practice law. Learning how is up to you.