LLAW7001 Practical Legal Training: Legal Practice Management

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

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 the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to revenue implications of legal practice
7. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to legal research in primary materials
8. Demonstrate an understanding of what is required to participate effectively in the legal profession
9. Demonstrate an ability to manage work and personal issues consistent with principles of resilience and well-being
10. Demonstrate an appreciation of the requirements of effective practical communication with clients, supervisors, other members of the legal profession and the judiciary
11. 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