[Editor's Note: This is the second in a three-part series on legal education in the age of generative AI. You can read Part 1 and Part 3 here.]

“It takes four years to make a fourth-year associate” is a common refrain from SixParsecs founder Jae Um when framing legal’s talent pipeline conundrum. The consensus is that to be truly practice ready, young lawyers require more training than law school currently provides. Witness, for example, the contention around clients’ increasingly common refusal to pay for first-year associates.