Before beginning full-time legal teaching, Ms. McKinney was an attorney for ten years with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, most of them in its Law Reform unit representing clients in issues related to health and disability law. She joined our faculty in 1989 after a year in Africa as director of clinical legal education at the University of Botswana. In addition to clinical courses-particularly the Health Law Clinic-she teaches Poverty, Social Inequality, and the Law and Focused Problem Solving. In 1998-99 she was on leave as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nairobi and continues to participate in international legal education settings.

The law clinics at CWRU, while covering several areas of law and practice, provide an extraordinary opportunity for students to "do good and do well." They learn how to be competent, just, accessible practitioners as they actually practice law under faculty supervision.

A Chinese proverb says that "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand." In the clinics and in the CaseArc curriculum the students are constantly "learning by doing." The CaseArc curriculum gives the students the opportunities to lean by doing in simulated situations. The clinics provide experiences that are unmatched in the law curriculum or after graduation. In the clinics students get strong educational support, as they apply their core values and learn lawyering skills in real client situations.