LAW4814 Extended clinical placement

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Independently undertake complex and advanced legal research to inform the effective practice of a range of legal functions, including the provision of well-informed and appropriate client representation, support and advice, as well as ethical responses to general, specific and complex legal problems.

2. 2

   Demonstrate advanced practical legal skills in areas such as interviewing, drafting letters of advice, briefing counsel, taking carriage of a legal matter on client’s instructions, advocacy, court and tribunal appearances  and restorative justice and ADR.

3. 3

   Build on previous clinic skills in assisting clients through decision making processes and managing their expectations.

4. 4

   Demonstrate an ability to advocate, communicate and liaise with legal and non-legal stakeholders in both formal and informal ways

5. 5

   Assess their own capabilities and performance as future legal practitioners by having developed skills of self-reflection and self-management.

6. 6

   Independently identify law reform or policy problems of relevance to the specialised areas of law practised at the clinic, and critically analyse the relevant legal principles that underpin those problems, and articulate sophisticated recommendations for reform; and/or demonstrate the ability to create resources, professional development or community education options for key stakeholders