The law firm Day Pitney will move towards a summer apprenticeship program next year. According to an internal firm memo, the program is intended to be
an eight-week course designed to prepare law students for the practice of law through practical, day-to-day applications and on-the-job training. Apprentices will learn by shadowing Day Pitney lawyers and working with firm professionals in one-on-one coaching scenarios. They will also collaborate with lawyer teams handling ongoing client matters. The practice-based learning approach will be supplemented with focused training workshops and diversity and community service activities designed to teach law students about the firm's culture and key core values.
The firm memo further states that: "The newly designed program expands beyond reading, research, and writing assignments. We want a program that revolves around the key values that we stress for our attorneys – education, career development and the importance of working as a team."
You can read the rest of the story here,at Above the Law, as well as the online ABA Journal's coverage here.
I am the scholarship dude.
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