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| Students in Courts |  Clinical teaching methodology focuses on students solving client problems much like lawyers in practice; they identify and handle the client problems with supervision by faculty and sometimes other lawyers.
Today in the United States, a modern law school education includes the opportunity for students to participate in clinical courses. Almost every law school has a clinical program, and most clinical programs consist of both in-house and externship clinical courses.
Nearly 15,000 law students take part in externships. Clinical courses are also having a success throughout the world. Although the legal systems and cultures differ throughout the world, the movement toward clinical legal education continues to focus on integrating experimental learning into the study of law.
Thousands of law students taking in-house and externship clinical courses each year join the mere 5,000 to 6,000 lawyers working for organizations that represent people who are so poor that they qualify for civil legal help. Other clinic law students help to provide criminal defense to those in need, and others assist prosecutors and other government lawyers at the local, state, and federal levels. To have an access to the courts students learn lawyering skills, and also learn legal ethics rules and the norms of the legal profession first-hand in their clinical courses. Clinical courses have the benefit of showing law students the pressures of law practice.
Clinical legal education offers an advantage over experiences law students may receive as law clerks, in most trainee programs, or as new lawyers. In most other settings, law clerks, beginners, or new lawyers often receive very little guidance. In well-structured clinical courses, law faculties provide law students with the opportunity to deal with ethical issues as lawyers and then discuss those issues. In such a way, law students in clinical courses learn the norms of the legal profession. Most clinical courses do very important function by involving law students in the supplying of legal services to those who need it. Providing pro bono representation may help students in their future practice as lawyers.
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