LLAW7001 Practical Legal Training: Legal Practice Management

2020

4.5

1 x 105-hour industry placement per semester

1 Admission into BLAWLP-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice
2 130.5 units of topics
3 112.5 units of topics
4 Admission into BLAWLPR-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice
4a Admission into BLAWLPRH-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Honours)
5 Admission into BLAWLPRG-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Graduate Entry)
5a Admission into BLAWLPRGH-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Graduate Entry) (Honours)
6 94.5 units of topics
Must Satisfy: ((1 and 2) or (3 and (4 or 4a)) or ((5 or 5a) and 6))

Topic Coordinator approval is required for enrolment in this topic. Students should apply via courseadvice.bgl@flinders.edu.au.

1 of LLAW4211, LLAW5901 has been successfully completed

Students will be exposed to both theory and practice across a range of areas of practice management including office systems, work and file management, client relations, trust and office accounting and risk management. They will also review and develop their understanding of the professional responsibility and ethical obligations of legal practitioners.Students will participate in a 6-week placement in a legal office which includes undertaking various specified tasks. Students are required to reflect critically on their experience in their placement.They will also consolidate their skills in research of primary legal materials, including point-in-time material.The topic is studied within a capstone context which synthesises learning across topics studied throughout the undergraduate law degree.

This topic aims to:

• provide students with an insight into the realities of the practice of law within a capstone context which synthesises across topics studied throughout the undergraduate law degree
• enable students to achieve competence, to the standard required by the admitting authorities, across a range of requirements relating to legal practice management

On completion of this topic students will:

• have developed a practical basic knowledge of areas of legal practice and the management of legal offices

• be able to demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to work management and business skills

• be able to demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to trust and office accounting

• be able to demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to analysing law

• be able to demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to ethics and professional responsibility

• be able to demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to revenue implications of legal practice

• be able to demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to legal research in primary materials

• have an understanding of what is required to participate effectively in the legal profession

• demonstrated an ability to manage work and personal issues consistent with principles of resilience and well-being

• have acquired an appreciation of the requirements of effective practical communication with clients, supervisors, other members of the legal profession and the judiciary

• be able to demonstrate critical reflection on some key experiences from their workplace situation, including making links to specific knowledge and skills gained in the course of their law studies and planning for future learning and action