If you don’t want to find yourself on the short end of an easy lawyer joke, actively seek opportunities to train under licensed attorneys before representing your first client.  You can start by scoping out your legal backyard.  Law school.

Continuing our trend of “Top 10” for “2010”…this one comes straight from the course catalogues of law schools across the country.  The law school clinic.  Make it happen.  Here’s why:

 

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