[{"titre":"The Hidden Economics of the Vanishing Apprenticeship","pubDate":"Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:00:27 +0200","id":3069027,"description":"Two columns ago, I followed the money through a law firm’s student recruitment program and found nearly $500,000 a year in lawyer time and expenses before a single billable hour was worked. Last column, I followed that same money into the delegation of actual work and found that firms were quietly losing much of it back through vague instructions, overworked memos, and write-downs nobody quite wants to talk about. This column follows that same money to where it gets spent – on the reps junior lawyers used to log before anyone trusted them with something that mattered. Those reps are . . . [more] The post The Hidden Economics of the Vanishing Apprenticeship appeared first on Slaw","source":"Slaw","url":"https://www.slaw.ca/2026/07/31/the-hidden-economics-of-the-vanishing-apprenticeship/"}]