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Unit of Study LAW00122 - Clinical Legal Experience (2016)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    have completed 144 credit points in Bachelor of Law units

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Exposes students to experiences in practice within a legal office environment, involving hands on involvement in the conduct of client matters. These experiences will be analysed with support from teaching staff to enable students to reflect on the role of legal practitioners and the legal system within society.

Unit content

Topic 1. Placement in legal practice
Topic 2. The role of the legal practitioner
Topic 3. The Lawyer-Client Relationship: Interviewing skills
Topic 4. Giving advice
Topic 5. Effective writing skills
Topic 6. Client needs
Topic 7. Resolving Disputes
Topic 8. Ethics & professional responsibility
Topic 9. The lawyer's needs
Topic 10. Turning legal theory into practice - the lawyer's role in law reform

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Not currently available in 2016

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Under the supervision of a legal practitioner: a) use appropriate professional behaviour when delivering legal services to real clients b) Apply the work practices, procedures and policies of the law placement provider c) Demonstrate a range of professional activities in the context of legal interviewing, advising, advocating, writing, drafting and negotiation.
2 Evaluate the role of lawyers in contemporary Australian society and the competing demands of professional standards, ethical rules, client expectations, and personal, political and other values.
3 Evaluate the meaning of professionalism and the ethics, skills, attitudes and responsibilities associated with it, and
4 Reflect upon their understanding of professionalism within the legal profession.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Under the supervision of a legal practitioner: a) use appropriate professional behaviour when delivering legal services to real clients b) Apply the work practices, procedures and policies of the law placement provider c) Demonstrate a range of professional activities in the context of legal interviewing, advising, advocating, writing, drafting and negotiation.
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  2. Evaluate the role of lawyers in contemporary Australian society and the competing demands of professional standards, ethical rules, client expectations, and personal, political and other values.
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  3. Evaluate the meaning of professionalism and the ethics, skills, attitudes and responsibilities associated with it, and
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  4. Reflect upon their understanding of professionalism within the legal profession.
    • GA4: