How little does law school prepare you for practice?

Gerry Spence, famed trial attorney from Wyoming, recounts his impressions of law school: “I did not learn much that was of real use. I learned how to speak, but not to people. I learned how to think, but not in terms of justice. I learned how to write, but in a style that was deadly boring. I had never seen a deed, a will, a real contract. I had never looked at a poor man in trouble, a miscreant in jail. I had no idea about how the law works…” [from story in the National Jurist]