OP, I’d run some of these options past your D and see what she says. Ultimately it is her choice. And she has plenty of money.
I think she sounds very mature and sensible, aiming for smaller, local jobs, and working now to get a true taste of law. I am an old fossil, the market has changed, but the folks I went to school with back in the day who were happiest practicing, the ones who are still practicing, followed a path like hers. They didn’t want Big Law jobs, they didn’t want Big Bucks, they just wanted to be lawyers and they started working as early as possible in law related jobs. When they graduated, they knew how to do things, real lawyering things, like draft pleadings and motions.