Kayla Murphy

But there's not like clinics where you actually get to practice the work.

I would say the closest thing is, oh gosh, I guess you could call it like you can take

kind of do like a class, like internship type thing with like the prosecutor's office or like domestic violence resource organization.

So you can kind of work with clients a little bit in that sense.

But I would say like law school really doesn't teach you how to be a lawyer.

I think it's something that you just have to learn on the job.

I think just – I have a little bit of like that –

boomer mentality that I'm trying to like get rid of, you know, it's like, well, I have to suffer.

But it's like, no, just because you suffer doesn't mean they have to suffer too.

Like there's a better way to do it.

Like you should do it the better way.

And like, frankly, I mean, I went to law school at the University of Oregon.

And so, you know, and I practice in Washington.

So it's not like you're necessarily learning the laws that you're going to be working with every day, you know, overall larger like concepts.

So we do have that in Washington state and I've only known one attorney who has gone through that program and she is amazing.

And, um, I've seen her in court and she does a really good job and she really doesn't have like that same, um,

I don't know, uneasiness, I think that I did when I first went into practice.

And that's probably because she's like, you know, been on the ground and like actually sees how the work is done.

Where in law school, I think a lot of people will like realize, oh my gosh, I don't even actually want to be a lawyer.

Like this work is not even, you know what I mean?