But their value can run deeper. You can gain unexpected personal benefits from these programs, whether you receive or dispense the services. By their nature, training programs tend to constitute a time out from work routine. Such programs remove the participants from daily surroundings and place them in an environment where they can focus, unimpeded by competing priorities.
Participants gain the personal time to refocus, re-energize, renew, and rejuvenate.
This 4-R benefit extends to the mentoring model. The close, interpersonal relationship between the mentor and protege can yield similar results. Participating in training and mentoring programs can provide real continuing legal education. That is one reason many jurisdictions give credit for in-house mandatory continuing legal education programs. In a mentoring relationship, the mentor provides the protege with ongoing practical legal education.