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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My impression is that the legal market in DC still has a lot of lawyers looking for work. Many of them would be happy to work longer hours for a good job. I think the question is how do you compete with them. What makes you a better candidate than a recent grad willing to work unlimited hours?[/quote]

OP here. No, the question is rather "why should a law firm job necessarily mean with such long hours?" People just seem to accept this, yet in other countries being a lawyer at a law firm means regular hours (9-5 or 9-6,most of the time).[/quote]

Move to another country![/quote]

OP here. PP, you are entitled to your nasty opinion. But seriously, why should an entire career track be closed off to people (m/f) who value time with their family but otherwise enjoy this profession?[/quote]

First, I'm not sure how you know you enjoy the profession, because you've never entered it.  Second, your first question was how you get the training you need as a lawyer without working law firm hours.  Multiple people answered you.  Now, you've changed the question to, in essence, "Why does it have to be this way!?!?! They do it differently in [fill in blank]!!"  The answer, of course, is that it doesn't have to be this way - but it IS this way.  So, you can whine about it, you can accept it, or you can try to change it.  But as others have said, applying for a legal job with no experience and saying you want to get all the training the law firm has to offer while working a part-time schedule is unlikely to be a fruitful endeavor.

I wish you the best of luck.

(Actually, I don't, because you sound like a whiny twatwaffle, but it's the polite thing to say.)  [/quote]

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