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Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Law

Master of Laws (Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics)

Course code: 3375 + Course abbreviation: LLM (LP) + 3 years full-time, 4 years part-time

This course 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 practical legal training.
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, or law graduates who have completed their degree outside Australia and are required to undertake legal studies in order to gain admission to practice in this country. 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.
On 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.

Juris Doctor

The Juris Doctor is an alternative exit of the Master of Laws (Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics). It enables students who do not wish to complete the final practical legal training section of the LLM (LP) to exit the course at an earlier stage. Students who complete the JD must, in order to gain admission to practice as a lawyer in Victoria, complete either one year of articles or a practical legal training course, together with the unit `Professional conduct and trust accounting'.
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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