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Originally Posted by Unregistered
But once you are in the comfort of SLS,
how would you get the skills for real practice?
I am talking about things like facing pressures of meeting clients, networking, hitting billable hours targets、bringing in clients.
These are skills you only build up if you start early in practice from day 1.
For someone in SLS, it’s just comfort zone work.
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I have been in legal service and private practice. It’s all about what you want out of your job. If your objective is to network, face billing pressures, and learn how to bring in clients, then legal service is not for you since you will never face billing pressures, or have to bring in any clients. But there is a much stronger focus in legal service on arriving at a position that is legally accurate and mentoring wise, legal service is better simply due to the way the government works. There are endless levels of clearance and your work gets picked on till no end. And you may find yourself in front of attorney general himself, trying to defend your work. Again, whether this is good or bad depends on your objectives. If you find it tiresome to have to defend your work an endless number of times, then private practice is def. better.