Year
2021
Units
9
Contact
1 x 4-hour seminar per semester
2 x 4-hour intensive workshops per semester
1 x 7-hour industry placement per semester
Prerequisites
1 Admission into GDPLPR-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
2 LLAW8300 - Professional Skills and Standards 1
Must Satisfy: (1 and 2)
Topic description

This topic provides students with the skills required of an entry level lawyer in: managing workload, work habits and work practices in a way that ensures that clients' matters are dealt with in a timely and cost effective manner.

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

Educational aims

This topic aims to enable students to achieve competence, to the standard required by the admitting authorities, in: managing workload, work habits and work practices in a way that ensures that clients' matters are dealt with in a timely and cost effective manner.

Expected learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:

  1. Demonstrate competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to managing personal time
  2. Demonstrate competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to managing risk
  3. Demonstrate competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to managing files
  4. Demonstrate competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to keeping clients informed
  5. Demonstrate competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in relation to working co-operatively