Enrolments for 2018 have closed.
Legal Practice Management and Professional Conduct
Postgraduate | RMI-OJD416 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
View information for 2019 course intakeKnow your professional obligations by studying ethics and professional conduct in the legal profession in Victoria. You’ll cover managing trust accounts, handling conflicts, confidentiality, client illegality, and ethics in the adversary system.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Legal Practice Management and Professional Conduct
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject you will be able to:
- demonstrate an advanced and integrated understanding of the rules of ethics and professional conduct that apply to the legal profession
- critically evaluate the regulation of the legal profession and identify areas of reform
- analyse and research complex problems relating to the legal profession and make reasoned and appropriate choices amongst alternatives
- demonstrate sophisticated cognitive and creative skills in approaching legal issues relating to legal profession and generate appropriate responses
- show effective, appropriate and persuasive collaboration and communication skills for legal and non-legal audiences.
- Admission to practice - the requirements for and process of admission
- The life of the lawyer - the personal skills and responsibilities of professionals
- Relationship with clients - covering the life of the relationship - including billing and trust accounting
- Relations with the profession and third parties -including fellow practitioners, negotiation, and communication
- Duties to the Court - including court etiquette, dealing with officials, contempt, witnesses, and instructing
- Civil and Disciplinary Complaints (where things go wrong and managing the process).
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.
Please note that this subject is not taking enrolments for session 2 2018.
- Memorandum of Advice (30%)
- Discussion board submission (20%)
- Invigilated Exam (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
To help set you up for success before you start this subject, we suggest completing or having equivalent knowledge in:
Others
You are normally expected to have completed all core subjects of the JD. Exceptions may be granted, at the Program Director's discretion, if you are approaching your final Session(s) of the degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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