Legal Practice Management and Professional Conduct

About this subject

What you'll learn

• Topics covered

  • Please refer to RMIT University’s Learning Management System - Canvas, for further details.

• Description

  This subject explores lawyers’ professional obligations, the work that lawyers do, the history and ongoing changes in the Australian legal profession. The rules of Ethics and Professional Conduct of the legal profession in Victoria will be studied, together with issues such as trust account management, handling conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, client illegality, ethics in the adversary system and accountability.

  This course provides you with a capstone experience, which will give you the opportunity to integrate, critically reflect on and consolidate what you have learnt in your program.

• Assessments

  The courses of the RMIT Graduate School of Business and Law use assessment to measure and report on your achievement of capabilities against learning outcomes and to provide you with feedback on your performance and progress. The assessment alignment list below shows the assessment tasks against the learning outcomes they develop, and the weighting of each assessment task:

  • Assessment Task 1, Linked CLOs 2,4,5 (20%)
  • Assessment Task 2, Linked CLOs 1 3,4,5 (30%)
  • Invigilated Exam - Linked CLOs 1,2,3,4 (50%)

• Textbooks

  For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).

• About RMIT University

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Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• RMI-LAW-MAS-2023 - Juris Doctor

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:

• RMI-OJD115-Advanced Contract Law

• RMI-OJD150-Administrative Law

• RMI-OJD160-Australian Property Law

• RMI-OJD210-Australian Company Law

Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).

Others

Additional requirements

No additional requirements