The paper reports the findings of over a decade of pioneering, award-winning fieldwork which has explored how workplace experience, if embedded successfully in different stages of legal education, can accelerate the ‘speed to capability’ and skills development of early career lawyers. The benefits from initial experiments of graduate-level work placements carried out by the authors since 2008 are presented. The paper then explores the findings from almost 10 years of creating year-long work placements for law undergraduates, assessing student skill growth, and the impact of the work placements on degree results and employment outcomes, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.

该论文报告了十多年来开创性、屡获殊荣的实地调查结果，这些调查结果探讨了工作场所经验如果成功融入法律教育的不同阶段，如何能够加速早期职业律师的“能力提升速度”和技能发展。介绍了作者自 2008 年以来进行的研究生水平工作实习的初步实验的好处。然后，本文探讨了近 10 年来为法学院本科生创建为期一年的工作实习、评估学生技能增长以及工作实习对学位结果和就业结果的影响（在 Covid-19 大流行之前和期间）的调查结果。