LLAW8302 Professional Experience

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
• Enable students to achieve competence, to the standard required by the admitting authorities, across a range of requirements relating to legal practice management

1. Demonstrate a practical basic knowledge of areas of legal practice and the management of legal offices
2. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to work management and business skills
3. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to trust and office accounting
4. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to analysing law
5. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to ethics and professional responsibility
6. Demonstrate emonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to legal research in primary materials
7. Demonstrate an understanding of what is required to participate effectively in the legal profession
8. Demonstrate an appreciation of the requirements of effective practical communication with clients, supervisors, other members of the legal profession and the judiciary
9. Demonstrate critical reflection on some key experiences from your workplace situation, including making links to specific knowledge and skills gained in the course of your law studies and planning for future learning and action