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Assignment 5: Legal Clinics In Law Schools

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5. Legal clinics are affiliated with law schools, it is a program where second and third year law students can practice courtroom skills under the supervision of a law professor. The students provide legal services pro bono to the indigent and do legal research, draft briefs and other legal documents, and interviewing clients. In legal clinics, students perform various tasks just as an attorney would do in the same job position.
6. There are several factors that an appellate court considers when ineffective counsel is claimed. First the behavior by the defense has to be found to have seriously impaired the adversarial process of the representation, in other words counsel failed in providing a defense for the accused, either by gross negligence
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