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Postgraduate handbook 2004
Law

Master of Laws
(Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics)

The Master of Laws (Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics) is both a first degree in law and a course of practical legal training. It provides a continuous pathway to admission as a legal practitioner in Victoria by incorporating the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics.

The course focuses on the knowledge, practical legal skills and professional ethics that may be expected of legal practitioners. This entails recognition of the increasingly transnational nature of some legal practice and the emergence of the internet as a medium for conducting business and practising law.
The course is taught over seven trimesters for full-time students and 10 trimesters for part-time students.
The course is open for admission to graduate students with a good degree in a discipline other than law. Given the intensive nature of the course, applicants will need to demonstrate a level of commitment, for example, through prior work experience in demanding situations or through previous postgraduate studies.
Upon successful completion of the Master of Laws (Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics), students will be eligible for admission as a legal practitioner in Victoria but must undertake to practise as an employee solicitor for six months before they can practice as a partner or on their own account.
Further details about this course can be obtained from the faculty's website at http://www.law.monash.edu.au/llm_lp/index.html.

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