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Lots of attorney's practice law but don't practice trial law. Trial law is a specific specialty practice. Lots of lawyers do transactional practices, like tax law or contracts or wills. It's just like doctors, some are pathologists and never see live patients others are internists and do nothing but see patients. Neither are more or less of a physician.
Also, I'd like to comment on the point about lawyers not have to "intern" or "practice" before being fully licenced. First, law school education does include a fair amount of practical skills. When I was in law school, I learned to write a memo and a brief. I did oral arguments and was able to take a class in trial advocacy. Even though I graduated having never served an actual client, I skill knew how to do all the required skills. I know the amount of training a person gets in school varies depending on the courses they take, some people get much more and do serve actual clients if they are in a clinic and some get less if they tend toward more substantive rather than practical classes, but today it is pretty much universal that a law student gains a minimum amount of practical skills at school.
Second, the bar exam has begun to incorporate a "practical skills" component to the exam, specifically to evaluate people's ability to serve a client. In most states, there is a portion of the exam which is dedicated to writing a memo or brief or other legal document for the sole purpose of examining your ability to properly respond to a client's needs. This portion does not test your knowledge of law, since all the law is given to you ... as it would be in real life, but rather it tests your ability to use the provided materials to draft the document.
Finally, modern legal practice extremely rarely sees young lawyers practice without supervision. Unlike medicine where even as residents and interns make important decisions unsupervised, in law firms lawyers are supervised heavily even after they have passed the bar and received their licence to practice. Today almost everyone practices with at least one other more experienced attorney. Furthermore, supervisory lawyers are under an ethical duty to ensure that supordinate lawyers are properly educated and supervised in their practice. Even if a recent graduate did go into solo practice, today there is so much more information sharing and professional development which occurs via state bars and bar associations that you could find resources to help you answer a question you had never encountered. Therefore, it seems to me that an intership period for lawyers is pretty unecessary.
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