Overview
The Graduate Diploma in Legal Professional Practice (GDLPP) is an accredited practical legal training program for law graduates to meet the practical training requirements for admission to the New South Wales legal profession under the Legal Profession Uniform Admission Rules 2015.
Students must complete 42 units of credit for the … For more content click the Read More button below.
To complete the program, students must choose one of the optional components: Workplace Experience 2 OR the Practicum.
Workplace Experience 1 and 2 each require a minimum 20 days work experience placement as supervised employment in a legal office or supervised paid or unpaid placement in a law or law-related work environment.
The Practicum expands on workplace learning and involves a combination of placements, simulated workplaces, technical learning spaces, law-related projects, continuing legal education, and structured reflective practice. Students undertaking the practicum are responsible for planning this component in consultation with UNSW Law’s GDLPP staff.
The full-time GDLPP 20-week coursework component commences with a compulsory 5-day onsite intensive that is followed by online courses. Students complete the Workplace Experience and Practicum components in their own time – however, the entire program must be completed within 2 years of commencement of the coursework component.
Learning Outcomes
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PLO3: Communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
UNSW PLT graduates will have advanced communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate and interact; share solutions to complex problems; and share knowledge, skills and ideas with diverse audiences using a variety of suitable media as appropriate for an entry-level lawyer intending to engage in professional legal practice.
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PLO5: Application of knowledge, skills and values
UNSW PLT graduates will apply their advanced knowledge, skills and values to demonstrate autonomy, well-developed judgement, adaptability and responsibility; and personal and professional integrity, ethical and respectful conduct appropriate for an entry-level lawyer intending to engage in professional legal practice.
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- Leaders
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PLO1: Knowledge
UNSW PLT graduates will have advanced theoretical and technical knowledge in core and elective legal practices areas, legal ethics and values, and the rules of professional responsibility together with an advanced understanding of recent and emergent developments in law and legal practice methods; social justice principles; and research principles and methods appropriate for an entry-level lawyer intending to engage in professional legal practice.
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- Professionals
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PLO2: Thinking and problem-solving skills
UNSW PLT graduates will have advanced cognitive and technical skills to select and apply methods and technologies to independently analyse critically, evaluate, and transform information to complete a range of activities; and analyse and generate solutions to complex problems, including ethical problems appropriate for an entry-level lawyer intending to engage in professional legal practice.
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- Scholars
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PLO4: Self-management skills
UNSW PLT graduates will have advanced meta-cognitive and practical self-management skills to effectively demonstrate a high level of personal and professional accountability; time and task management skills; self-assessment and reflective practice skills, including appropriate use of feedback; and ability to implement personal wellbeing strategies appropriate for an entry-level lawyer intending to engage in professional legal practice.
- Professionals
- Scholars
Program Structure42 Units of Credit:
Students must complete 42 UOC as a standalone program.
Core Courses
Students must take 30 UOC of the following courses.
Prescribed Electives
Students must take two (6 UOC) of the following courses.
Elective
Students must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.
Admission Requirements
Entry Requirements
Program Requirements
Progression Requirements
Pathways
Articulation Arrangements
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Professional Outcomes
Accreditations
Professional Recognition
Career Opportunities
Program Fees
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