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.
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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