Is clinical experience the first step to a job? For students who handle foreclosure cases at the Community Preservation Clinic at the University of Illinois College of Law, the answer is yes. “The idea of the clinic is to give students the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be a lawyer as a litigator,” said Stacey L. Tutt, the clinic’s director. “And then to take that understanding to work on large-scale projects that are focused on policy, which for a lawyer are those …