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Practical Legal Training Phone 1300 039 031 Email pltadmin@leocussen.edu.au Visit www.leocussen.edu.au
2 Overseas Qualified
Practical Legal Lawyers Training
Training Practical Legal Training 3
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CRICOS Provider Code: 02224A | CRICOS Course Code: 039593D
Contents
Since its establishment in 1972,
01. About Leo Cussen
Leo Cussen Centre for Law has been Centre for Law
and continues to be recognised as a About
centre of excellence for legal education. Leo Cussen
Our training is highly respected by the Centre for Law Leo Cussen Centre for Law is recognised as a Leo Cussen also offers Supervised Legal Training
legal profession. centre of excellence for practical legal training and (SLT) Workshops in Melbourne, as well as some of
continuing professional development for all legal the required training for overseas qualified lawyers
practitioners from entry-level lawyers through to seeking admission in Victoria or Western Australia.
senior practitioners.
We enjoy lasting contact with our alumni, through
3 Leo Cussen Centre for Law provides high quality ongoing professional relationships and attendance
education, training and professional development at our popular Continuing Professional
to strengthen and support the administration of Development programs.
02. 03. justice and the legal system.
Graduate Supervised Our training programs, which focus on ‘learning
by doing’ with a strong emphasis on practical
Diploma in Legal Training
experience, are highly respected by the legal
Legal Practice (SLT) profession and taught by leading professionals.
(PLT) Workshops-
We offer both onsite (full-time) and online
Victoria
(part-time and full-time) practical legal training for
law graduates seeking admission to the legal
4 10 profession through our Graduate Diploma in Legal
Practice, taught from our training facilities in the
CBDs of Melbourne and Perth.
04. 05. 06. 07.
Swinburne Overseas Meet Some Apply
Program Qualified of Our Now
Dual Award Lawyers Graduates
(PLT) Training
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4 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (PLT)
02.
Graduate Diploma in
Legal Practice (PLT)
Real Practical Legal Training Leo Cussen Centre for Law
has been preparing law graduates for practice since 1972.
About the course
Leo Cussen has an excellent reputation, training Leo Cussen offers a friendly, supportive
law graduates for admission to the legal profession environment where you’re constantly interacting
since 1972. We are widely recognised by legal with expert, well-connected lawyers, and talented
employers as providing comprehensive and high and ambitious fellow trainees, so building
quality legal training for entry-level lawyers, with a professional networks and starting lifelong
strong emphasis on the practical. friendships comes naturally.
At Leo Cussen we offer personalised mentoring, Graduates are entitled to apply for admission to
where you will work in small groups with a diverse legal practice in Victoria or Western Australia with
range of lawyer trainers. We find this very effective reciprocal admission in other Australian states. Our
in building confidence and skills in critical areas graduates have gone on to fill a wide variety of
such as client communication, drafting, and legal and professional roles.
practice management.
Kevin Zhou We believe that Practical
Associate, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
In Leo Cussen’s onsite course, they arrange the settlement, and compiled folders for filing. The PLT is
Legal Training should be
professional placement for trainees. I found this
particularly important at the time, as I lacked the local
all about practice. As an international student, I found
my training at Leo Cussen set me up very well. I have
just that – practical.
connections. I enjoyed the simulation of real tasks in a worked as a lawyer at Minter Ellison and Clayton Utz.
legal practice.
In conveyancing, we interviewed the client, managed
the transaction, wrote letters, supervised the
6 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (PLT) Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (PLT) 7
Your Choice
Online or Onsite, full-time or part-time Intake dates Whether you study
At Leo Cussen you can choose the learning style Leo Cussen’s Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice Full-time courses onsite or online, you
that best suits you: full-time or part-time; online or is approved by the Victorian Legal Admissions (onsite and online) will learn through:
onsite. Board and the Legal Practice Board of Western Melbourne
Australia, and is recognised by the legal profession There are two intakes a year for our full-time courses, in January
• face-to-face classroom instruction in
In our online blended learning program, you and July.
as providing comprehensive and high quality small groups
work principally online with 13 days face-to-face Perth
training.
instruction broken into intensive blocks. These There is currently one intake a year commencing in March.
• self-directed learning
From 2019 the course will run from January each year.
days are run in both Melbourne and Perth CBDs. The emphasis of Practical Legal Training (PLT)
Alternatively, you can attend the Leo Cussen is around ‘learning by doing’. You will complete • running multiple simulated client files
Part-time course (online)
campus in the Melbourne CBD, in the heart of the exercises to develop your understanding of legal Melbourne • role plays
legal precinct, for the full-time onsite course. practice such as advising your client, drafting There are two intakes a year for our part-time course, in January
legal documents and communicating with other and July. • o
ne-on-one and group mentoring with
Leo Cussen Centre for Law offers practical legal an experienced legal practitioner
parties. You complete highly interactive simulated
training for LLB graduates (or equivalent) leading to
files, which means you run the file from opening
admission to the legal profession as an Australian
instructions to the closing letter. You participate in Applications You will also be helped with job search and
Lawyer. All law graduates must complete practical preparation by our dedicated Graduate
settlements, negotiations, will signings and court Melbourne Placement and Careers Advisor.
legal training as a prerequisite for admission to the
hearings. Open around February/March for July intake.
legal profession. This training can be undertaken Open around August for January intake.
either as ‘supervised legal training’ known as Perth
Traineeships in Victoria, or a practical legal training Open around October for January intake.
course such as the Leo Cussen Graduate For the most up to date list of application and intake dates, please
Diploma in Legal Practice. visit:
www.leocussen.edu.au/apply
Onsite PLT Online PLT Fees
Delivered face-to-face at our premises in Melbourne’s CBD, the The Online PLT is a blended learning course with a combination of
Onsite PLT offers intense collegial training with the opportunity for online and onsite activities. It is particularly suited to people used FEE-HELP is available for this course for domestic applicants. For
daily contact with Mentors, other PLT trainees and visiting expert to working independently. You have an Online Mentor who is in all domestic and international course fees and further important
legal practitioners. regular contact with you and you attend an equivalent of 13 face- information please visit:
to-face contact days. You also work with practising lawyers from www.leocussen.edu.au/dates_fees
our staff and visiting expert legal practitioners.
Francine Clancy Molly McCaffrey
Senior Solicitor, Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office Legal Officer, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Commercial litigation had always seemed a “scary” personality were much better suited to litigation rather Leo Cussen’s PLT is the ideal bridge between the compulsory and elective options so I had an informed
thought, as I had barely been inside a court room let than advisory. The skills I obtained through the PLT solo student life at university and the collaborative view on many different areas of the law.
alone appeared in one as an advocate! During the PLT, definitely helped me to “hit the ground running”. professional world, because you work intensively with The Leo Cussen PLT made me feel confident when I
I received some very positive feedback in the litigation other graduates on truly practical assessments. obtained my first role with the State Ombudsman of
I was offered employment in the Madgwicks Litigation
and advocacy modules, which started to build my team at the end of my PLT. I now work as a Senior The staff at Leo Cussen were passionate about Western Australia as the strategic decision making, file
confidence. Solicitor for the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office. passing on their experience to budding lawyers in and client management skills I acquired during my PLT
addition to preparing trainees for admission to practice. were invaluable.
As time went on, I realised that I was still passionate
Although I did not intend to practise law after University,
about commercial law, but my skills, strengths and
the course has the most comprehensive raft of
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Graduate Diploma Training (PLT)
Legal Practice Practical Legal Training 9
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02.
Course Structure
A. Compulsory
Skills & Values Trust & Office Accounting
Lawyer’s Skills
Work Management & Business Skills
Problem Solving
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Resilience + Wellbeing
Core Practice Topics Civil Litigation
Commercial & Corporate
Property Law
Criminal Law
+
B. Elective Topics
Choose one of Employment & Industrial Relations
Wills & Estates
Banking & Finance (Victoria only)
Planning & Environmental Law (Victoria only)
Consumer Law (Victoria only)
Choose one of Administrative Law
Family Law
A rigorous practical
+ training program to
C. 3 Week Professional Placement (for Victorian trainees)
4 Week Professional Placement or 9 Weeks Professional Placement if exemption better prepare you.
from Career Planning + Profession Module is given (for Western Australian trainees)
10 Supervised Legal Training (SLT) Workshops – Victoria Supervised Legal Training (SLT) Workshops – Victoria 11
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Supervised Legal Training (SLT)
Workshops – Victoria
Leo Cussen Centre for Law has an enviable record in helping
firms and legal practices meet their Supervised Legal Training
(SLT) requirements.
About the workshops • designed for Trainees to demonstrate Bookings
understanding and competence in the
Leo Cussen has given thousands of lawyers Our workshops are competitively priced, and most
National Competency Standards for
the essential skills and knowledge needed for topics are scheduled a number of times each
Entry-Level Lawyers
admission and to reach their career potential. year. Places in each workshop are limited, so we
Trainees attending our programs receive guided • suitable for overseas qualified lawyers suggest booking in early to avoid missing out. For
and intensive training from friendly, supportive and and requalifying lawyers, subject to the upcoming dates and to register, please visit our
experienced legal practitioners. These programs relevant Admitting Authority website:
allow Trainees to experience the benefits of
• comprehensive course materials provided store.leocussen.edu.au/supervised_legal_trainees
face-to-face workshop style training, delivered
by prominent lawyers who will guide them along • catered as required, depending on the Fees
the path to excellence. We treat our Trainees as length of the workshop
Our program offers competitively priced training
individuals and work with them to draw out their
Admission requirements and assessment. For our most up to date fees,
individual strengths and skills.
please visit:
The admission requirements for trainee lawyers,
Key benefits store.leocussen.edu.au/supervised_legal_trainees
overseas qualified lawyers and requalifying
• intensive, modular and designed to suit lawyers should be checked with the Victorian
firms and legal practices Legal Admissions Board before registering for SLT
workshops: www.lawadmissions.vic.gov.au.
• held at Leo Cussen in Melbourne’s CBD
or, by agreement, at a firm or practice
Workshop delivery
• instructed face-to-face and assessed by Trainees experience the benefits of face-to-face
leading practitioners training in an intimate setting, receiving intensive,
Elizabeth Salpietro
• an exam-free zone; performance is guided training from respected lawyers. Legal Officer, Royal Australian Air Force
assessed as you go All training and assessment is conducted during I was attracted to Leo Cussen because of In the workplace, while you get a practical
recommendations from other trainees. The program understanding, there is not always a chance to cover
the program, which is run from Melbourne’s CBD – was very well run with excellent opportunities to all elements and questions you may have.
there are no exams. Comprehensive materials are practise skills in a simulated and safe environment. It
supplied, and catering provided for each full day was very beneficial learning from barristers and judges
with such a wealth of knowledge.
of training.12 Supervised Legal Training (SLT) Workshops – Victoria
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Course Structure
Leo Cussen Centre for Law provides training in all mandatory topics pursuant to the Legal
Profession Uniform Admission Rules 2015
Core Practice Topics Lawyer’s Skills*
Ethics and Professional Responsibility*
Problem Solving
Work Management and Business Skills
Risk Management*
Trust and Office Accounting
Civil Litigation
Property Law
Commercial and Corporate Practice
*Must be provided (subject to VLAB) by an approved provider such as Leo
Cussen, but firms and practices may use us as the provider for all of these
topics.
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We also provide two topics from the Optional Practice Areas
Topics Administrative Law
Employment and Industrial Relations
Small group training –
to provide the
finest practical
training experience.14 Swinburne Program Dual Award (PLT) Swinburne Program Dual Award (PLT) 15
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Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
As part of the Bachelor of Laws (Swinburne) +
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice More Information
(Leo Cussen)
Learn more about the great range of
Leo Cussen has an excellent reputation, Swinburne law degrees:
training law graduates for admission to the
Swinburne Program Dual Award (PLT) legal profession since 1972. We are widely
www.swinburne.edu.au/business-law/
schools-departments/swinburne-law-school/
recognised by legal employers as providing
comprehensive and high quality legal training for Phone 03 9214 8444
entry-level lawyers, with a strong emphasis on
Swinburne students – Apply for the Leo
Bachelor of Laws (Swinburne) + Graduate Diploma in Legal practical experience.
Cussen Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
Practice (Leo Cussen) Dual Award Our Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
(Practical Legal Training) program is focused Apply by 1/5/2018
About the program There are also a diverse range of Swinburne on ‘learning by doing’, with a rigorous hands- Course start date 16/7/2018
double degree law programs to choose from: on training program to better prepare you as Course end date 30/11/2018
Students who study Law at Swinburne University
a lawyer. You will develop your legal practice
of Technology are now able to integrate their Law • Engineering Leo Cussen CRICOS
degree with the Leo Cussen Graduate Diploma skills such as advising clients, drafting legal
provider number: 02224A
in Legal Practice, giving them the qualifications
• Arts documents and communicating with other
required to apply to be admitted to practice law as parties. You will run simulated files, from taking
• Aviation Management
soon as they graduate. initial instructions through to rendering accounts
• Business and sending the closing letter. You will also
Swinburne is the only Victorian law school to offer participate in settlements, negotiations, will
this option, making their students career-ready • Business Information Systems
signings and court hearings.
from the day they graduate. This exciting new • Computer Science
dual award program will be available to Swinburne Once you complete your Priestly 11 law
students from 2018. • Innovation and Design subjects at Swinburne, and have no more
than law two electives outstanding, you can
Swinburne and Leo Cussen share similar teaching • Media and Communication
start your Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
philosophies where students benefit from the • Science through Leo Cussen, giving you a clear and
experience of supportive blended learning efficient pathway to admission to legal practice.
environments. The integrated course will produce This dual award has been accredited by the
law graduates who are job ready through practical Victorian Legal Admissions Board and will be When you train at Leo Cussen you will
legal training that is industry relevant. offered from 2018. The new arrangement will be learn through:
open to any Swinburne LLB student, including
• Face-to-face small group instruction
single degree, double degree and graduate entry.
• Running multiple simulated client files
• Role plays
• Self-directed learning
• Personalised mentoring with an experienced
legal practitioner16 Swinburne Program Dual Award (PLT)
05.
04.
Course Structure
A. Compulsory
Skills & Values Trust & Office Accounting
Lawyer’s Skills
Work Management & Business Skills
Problem Solving
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Resilience
Core Practice Topics Civil Litigation
Commercial & Corporate
Property Law
Criminal Law
+
B. Elective Topics
Choose one of Employment & Industrial Relations
Wills & Estates
Banking & Finance (Victoria only)
Planning & Environmental Law (Victoria only)
Consumer Law (Victoria only)
Choose one of Administrative Law
Build your skills and
Family Law confidence with a
mentoring program
you won’t find
elsewhere.18 Overseas Qualified Lawyers Training Overseas Qualified Lawyers Training 19
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Overseas Qualified
Lawyers Training
If you hold a law degree from outside Australia and wish to be admitted to the Australian legal profession,
you must first obtain guidance and approval from the admitting authority in the State in which you wish
to practise. That authority can then direct you to complete individual training programs at Leo Cussen
Centre for Law.
Admitting authorities for Victoria: Admitting authorities for Western Australia:
In Victoria, you may be referred to Leo Cussen Centre for Law to undertake particular Practical Legal Online
Training topics under the authority of the Victorian Legal Admissions Board. In some cases you may be
required to complete a full, 24-week Practical Legal Training course. Before you apply for a determination In Western Australia, you may be referred to Leo Cussen Centre for Law to undertake particular Online
from the Victorian Legal Admissions Board, you may wish to check the Uniform Principles for Assessing PLT Single Topics, under the authority of the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia.
Qualifications of Overseas Applicants to the Australian Legal Profession.
Program Delivery
You may choose the delivery that best suits you:
Face-to-Face Or Online
All assessment is conducted throughout Online PLT Single Topics are completed online.
the training. Comprehensive training materials Your completion is closely monitored
are supplied and catering is provided. There are and assessed.
no exams as most of the training is delivered
• Ethics and Professional Responsibility
face-to-face with assessment taking place during
(a minimum of 20 hours including all topic
topic delivery.
work and assessment). To make a booking visit:
• Ethics & Professional Responsibility Fees
• Trust and Office Accounting Face-to-Face (SLT)
(2 day workshop).
(a minimum of 15 hours including all topic Our program offers competitively priced training
• Trust & Office Accounting (1.5 day workshop). work and assessment). store.leocussen.edu.au
and assessment.
/supervised_legal_trainees
For our most up to date fees go to:
Online PLT Single Topics
store.leocussen.edu.au/supervised_legal_trainees
leocussen.edu.au/practical-legal-training
For other topic’s durations please visit:
/about-our-plt/overseas-lawyers/
store.leocussen.edu.au/supervised_legal_trainees20 Meet Some of Our Graduates Practical Legal Training 21
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Meet Some
07.
Apply Now
of Our Graduates
Our Practical Legal Training Programs are
highly respected by legal professionals and
taught by leading legal practitioners.
The Hon Julia Gillard MP Murray Baird William Lye, OAM Tom Vasilopoulos
Former Prime Minister Assistant Commissioner Barrister at Law, Winner of the Barrister, Victorian Bar - Greens
of Australia General Counsel, Australian 2017 Lawyers Weekly Barrister List Barristers
Charities and Not-for-Profits of the Year Award
Commission
Apply
To apply and for more information
visit www.leocussen.edu.au/
P 1300 039 031
E info@leocussen.edu.au
For international student enquiries:
Fonda Gazis - Overseas Student Coordinator
fgazis@leocussen.edu.au or
visit www.leocussen.edu.au/overseas
Julia Tonkin Mercia Mitchell Trish Cameron Claire Wong
Senior Associate, Maddocks Lawyer, K&L Gates Legal, Development and Criminal Law, Fees
Protection Advisor - Refugee Papa Hughes Lawyers
and Asylum Seekers Please visit:
Information Centre Indonesia www.leocussen.edu.au/dates_fees22 Notes
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Notes
Address: Enquiries:
360 Little Bourke Street Tel: 1300 039 031
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 +61 3 9602 3111
DX 460 Melbourne Fax: +61 3 9670 3242
GPO Box 853 Email: info@leocussen.edu.au
Melbourne, VIC, 3001 Web: www.leocussen.edu.au
The information contained in this brochure is accurate as at January 2018 and subject to change.
Please check website for any updates www.leocussen.edu.auCricos Provider Code: 02224A | Cricos Course Code: 039593D
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Address: Enquiries:
360 Little Bourke Street Tel: 1300 039 031
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 +61 3 9602 3111
DX 460 Melbourne Fax: +61 3 9670 3242
GPO Box 853 Email: pltadmin@leocussen.edu.au
Melbourne, VIC, 3001 Web: www.leocussen.edu.au
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