The Israel Bar Association just sent out a 12 question survey to legal interns (stagiaires) asking the following questions (it was multiple choice but I am only including the questions):
- Do you think the internship in its current form properly prepares you to work as a lawyer?
- Was it hard or easy for you to find an internship?
- If it was hard for you, why do you think that was?
- During the internship did you only perform legal work?
- How many hours a day did you work?
- Do you feel received fair treatment from your employer?
- How do you rate the quality of your internship?
- How do you feel about the suggestion to institute an entrance examination at the end of law school as a precondition to beginning an internship?
- What is your position regarding extending the length of the mandatory internship?
- What is your position regarding creating a training school to run simultaneously with the internship?
- What is your position regarding the proposal to change the bar exam to also test critical thinking and analysis rather than rote memorization?
- Do you think there is a need to change the system to one that institutes standards to determine who can qualify to be an interns mentor (מאמן)?
I think making the bar exam more like the American bar exam to test critical thinking/ analysis and application of the law is a much better idea than the current exam that tests rote memorization. I don't think that the internship should last for more than 1 year. During the internship, salaries are very low. To make interns collect such a pittance for more than 1 year is unfair. I don't see why they need an exam after law school but before the internship. Students take plenty of exams in school and then the bar exam. Why is there a need to insert another test? How would that exam be different than the bar exam?
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