National Jurist -September 2008 - (Page 27) Ranking No. 31 on our list, the University of Idaho College of Law’s clinical education program combines actual client representation, simulation, extern placement and classroom instruction. boast that all of its law school faculty members have actually practiced law. “As a result, each faculty member appreciates and supports the clinical experience that our law school offers to our students,” he said. “The substantive courses regularly integrate the clinical and other ‘hands on’ opportunities that are offered to our students.” At Drake, real life experience is provided to law students from the very beginning of their law school career. The First- Year Trial Practicum suspends classes for first year students for one week to observe an actual jury trial conducted at the legal clinic. Students are paired up with practicing lawyers and judges to discuss the trial as it unfolds. The Drake Legal Clinic operates like a private practice law firm, complete with firm meetings held during the semester, Foxhoven said. The University of Georgia Law School who ranked No. 6 with 42.8 percent is September 2008 THE NATIONAL JURIST 27 providing students the opportunity to experience a full range of unique clinical programs. Alex Scherr, associate professor and director of civil clinics at the University of Georgia Law School, said their “unique” clinics are based on the “Best Practices for Legal Education” model and the Carnegie Report “Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law.” “We also are conscious of the overlap between clinical classes and the real prob- http://www.law.uga.edu/
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