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confront in practice; deal with the problem in country. Under the supervision of a faculty
the role; are required to interact with others member, the students get a solid foundation
in attempts to identify and solve the to develop lawyering skills. And this active
problem; and, perhaps most critically, the participation strengthens the relationship
student performance is subjected to intensive between legal education and the legal
critical review. Thus, the concept of Clinical profession resulting in benefits to the
Legal Education has evolved and contributed students, the academy, and the profession.
to a new pedagogy in the teaching of law. It Further, clinical courses provide students
plays a crucial role in bridging the gap with opportunities to use legal expertise to
between the theory and real-life practice of address issues of social concern, particularly
law. the needs of the poor.

The skills that clinical exercises aim to build Thus, Clinical legal education provides
include interviewing, fact investigation, an students with opportunities for professional
extensive application of problem-solving and intellectual development and prepares
skills, attorney-client relations, negotiation, them for the practice of law, as competent
and other alternative dispute resolution and socially as well as professionally
methods, ethical considerations, and pre-trial responsible lawyers. If institutionalized and
and trial skills. Engagement in these implemented properly, clinical education has
processes allows students to learn how the the potential to benefit the community, the
legal process works and how and where it institution, the faculty, and the students
needs to be reformed. The students are immensely. It has the potential to bring about
trained to be productive members of a a change in the attitude of lawyers, judges,
community of lawyers that have the refined and other law enforcement agencies, not
skills needed to develop and implement only in relation to the traditional methods for
creative strategies for addressing the resolving disputes but in also bringing about
pressing demand for social justice in the

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