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CMV: Every lawyer should serve at least 2 years as a public defender

Similarly to how fresh medical school grads don't go straight into being a doctor, they become a resident first. They help treat real people in hospitals and are extra medical personnel instead of the hospital relying on only MDs.

We need a similar system for lawyers. After you graduate law school and pass the bar, you serve at least 2 years as a public defender. Of course, they should be paid a decent salary just as medical residents are. 

Ultimately, the goal of this is to have more public defenders and BETTER public defenders. Currently, public defenders are overworked and tend to be people who do this out of passion or couldn't get the top tier law jobs. Under my proposed system, this would result in lower case loads, more attention to the cases, and all lawyers from the top of the class to the bottom would be working. Of course, if a lawyer is incompetent, they would be fire, just as a  an incompetent medical resident would.

Too many people, even innocent ones, end up in major debt fighting for lives when their public defender is shitty. We cannot have a fair and working legal system when one side (the state) has adequate representation but the defendant does not. 

I am open to changing this view because I understand it's a big order and no one likes being told where to work, but it's not the only job that has mandatory apprenticeships. 

I look forward to hearing your arguments! Thanks!
gpt
I think the challenge here is while all doctors who continue practicing medicine have something to learn from working in a hospital, even if they ultimately go into private office practice, many lawyers will not work in criminal law. How does two years as a public defender preparer somebody who will go into civil suits, contract law, estate law, bankruptcy law, and the like?