Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice

Duration: 15 Weeks On-Campus Plus 15-Week Placement

Description

The Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice or Professional Legal Training ("The PLT") program is an alternative to undertaking a traineeship or clerkship. The program develops ‘lawyering’ skills, such as legal research, analysis and problem solving, legal writing and drafting, interviewing and oral communication, advising, advocacy, dispute resolution, professional ethics and conduct, and accounting. You are taught in a practical context in a simulated office environment.

Professional Recognition

The course is modelled on the New South Wales Law Society’s professional program and is fully accredited by the admission authorities in New South Wales and Queensland. Mutual recognition legislation facilitates the process of practitioners admitted in one state seeking admission in other Australian jurisdictions.

Professional Outcomes

The Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice program entitles you to be admitted as a solicitor in Queensland or NSW.

Further Studies

Graduates may receive up to 35 credit points towards a Master of Laws (Legal Practice) degree.

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