LLAW8302 Professional Experience

2020

4.5

4 x 7-hour intensive workshops per semester
1 x 225-hour industry placement per semester

1 Admission into GDPLPR-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
2 LLAW8300 - Professional Skills and Standards 1
Must Satisfy: (1 and 2)

LLAW4211 has been successfully completed

This topic provides students with the skills required of an entry level lawyer in: analysing facts/identifying issues, analysing law, providing legal advice, solving problems; and a sound general knowledge of the significance of, and the principles governing, trust and general accounting in legal practice, together with the skills and values to maintain trust and general account records according to law and good practice. Students will also review and develop an understanding of the professional responsibility and ethical obligations of legal practitioners. This topic further provides students with a workplace experience, as required for admission.

Competence in these skills is required for admission as a legal practitioner.

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 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice degree

• to 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 the 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 legal research in primary materials

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

• 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