Post Carbon Fellow Janelle Orsi features in this article about apprenticeships as a route into the legal profession.

From the article:

When Yassi Eskandari-Qajar graduated from UC Berkeley in 2011, she was prepared to go to law school. Prepared, but not excited.

As an undergrad she had found herself drawn to social justice work, and law school seemed in her future. But that idea curdled after she consulted several law students. She didn’t even need to hear them speak: The stress and misery of their experience, she says, was practically etched in their faces.

Besides, Eskandari-Qajar loved the work she was already doing as a paralegal at a small Oakland law firm called the Sustainable Economies Law Center. The prospect of giving up meaningful legal work to return to a classroom filled her with dread.

And that’s when her boss told her there was another route to becoming an attorney—one that didn’t require her to give up her day job, slave away for three years at a law school, or accumulate massive debt.