THE legal clinic has for some years been advocated for establishment in law schools. Its object is analogous to the medical clinic in medical schools. Besides its beneficent service to the poor and helpless who need legal assistance, it has a special educational value. It trains the embryo lawyer in the practical use of the law he has learned, and familiarizes him with courts and with the details of office practice. It thus qualifies him to start sooner on an independent career or to be more speedily useful as assistant in a lawyer's office. By placing the work under the direction -of a member of a law school faculty, it gives him these benefits more rapidly, more helpfully, and more systematically than is possible for him in the ordinary law office. By using the clientage and system of a legal aid bureau, it brings him directly in contact with clients, develops early his sense of personal responsibility in legal practice, and furnishes a variety of experience which cannot in the same period be had in the usual law clerkship at the beginning. students of Northwestern University Law School have for twenty years past volunteered in small numbers on the staff of the Legal Aid Society of Chicago (now the Legal Aid Bureau of the United Charities). But in September, 1919, the Faculty of Law voted to require legal clinic work of all senior students, under the supervision of a member of the faculty, who is also a practitioner. required service was given for three half-days a week for three months at the main office and the branch offices. work was done under the direction of the attorneys of the Legal Aid Bureau. Examinations were held for each group at the end of each three months. Some of the questions set in the examinations give a concrete idea of what the legal clinic does for the law student, educationally, in qualifying him better for practice: QUESTION II-The officer entrusted with the duty of serving summons upon the defendant fails to get service and makes a return: The within named defendant not found in this county. You find you gave him the wrong address of defendant. What would you do? Describe the steps taken. QUESTION III-A client has a meritorious claim, but no money with which to start suit. What should be done, and what are the various steps to be taken? If papers are to be drawn, what should they contain ? QUESTION V-A client insists that she obtained a divorce from her husband about five years ago, but does not know the court or the judge or the lawyer or anything, except that the case was heard in Chicago. Where would you go, and what records would you inspect, in an effort to locate the files of this divorce suit ?