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Can anyone working in legal weigh in on this? I don't know enough to know if this is a good idea or a bad one.
Well, it removes some pretty heavy financial obstacles for the profession and will allow a broader diversity of people to enter the field. Plus, anyone who has ever been to law school will tell you that it doesn't teach you dick diddly about practicing law. Serving as a clerk/intern/junior associate is where you really cut your teeth. Some jurisdictions even have restrictions on your ability to practice on your own if you haven't observed or participated in different types of legal matters. To that end, I think it's terrific that this program has a fairly strong practical requirement.
The bar is a way to show that you can at least think like an attorney in a variety of fields. That thought process is applied differently based on where you practice. I can't get out of my own speeding ticket, but I can breeze through your average regulatory exam for my industry. I can do that because I've spent time in a few different disciplines within the legal field. I'm not sure if 16 weeks is necessarily a substitute for the exam, but that's more time than I spent studying for it.
Source: I'm a lawyer, and my uncle works for Nintendo.
Thank you for the information! I had a feeling this was good i just wanted to get input from someone involved in the field before forming any conclusions.