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Why do it take so long?

Why do it take some lawyers longer to become lawyers or criminal defense lawyers

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The educational training is pretty standard (J.D. is three years and requires an undergraduate degree of some kind). Attorneys gain expertise in a particular field of law by practicing in that field. Some may later gain experience in other fields and "switch" to a new specialty. Criminal law could be something you enter right after graduation (e.g., a job with the public defender's office or district attorney's office or even with a firm that has a criminal law practice). Others may begin the practice of law in some other field and go into criminal law later (though I think criminal law is such a different area than other fields, I think this is less common).
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