The Clinical Legal Education Association exists to advocate for clinical legal education as fundamental to the education of lawyers. CLEA and its members seek to:

• foster excellent teaching and scholarship by clinical educators;
• integrate clinical teaching and extend its methods into the legal education program of every law school;
• reform legal education so as to prepare law students for excellent and reflective law practice;
• advance regulation of legal education that insures the continued vitality of clinical education in law schools; and
• pursue and promote justice and diversity as core values of the legal profession.

Clinical Legal Education Association Mission Statement Updated Based on Membership Input Summer 2009 (Approved by the CLEA Board August 2009)