"What they taught us at this law firm is how to be a lawyer,” says Dennis P. O’Reilly, who went through the program last year, and attended the George Washington University School of Law. “What they taught us at law school is how to graduate from law school."

After Law School, Associates Learn to Be Lawyers - NYTimes.com

Great idea for the law firm to offer a program to teach first-year associates how to practice law. Truly sad that they had to.

And oddly, it seems to fit a lot of what of problems with educational system in general.

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