LLAW8303 Transactional Legal Practice GE

This topic provides students with the skills required of an entry level lawyer in transactional legal practice, incorporating commercial and corporate, property and succession and estates practice.

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

This topic aims to enable students to achieve competence, to the standard required by the admitting authorities, in the transactional areas of legal practice including:

• Commercial and corporate practice
• Property practice
• Succession and estates practice

1. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in conducting a commercial transaction
2. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in setting up standard commercial structures
3. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in dealing with loans and securities
4. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in transferring title
5. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in creating leases
6. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in creating and releasing securities
7. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in advising on land use
8. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in drafting wills
9. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in administering deceased estates
10. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in taking action to resolve wills and estates problems
11. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in advising on revenue law and practice in relation to commercial and other property transactions
12. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in drafting documents related to transactional practice
13. Demonstrate the competence required of an entry level legal practitioner in to act ethically in relation to all of the above