Legal Practice Experience (LPE) is a compulsory component of the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP).
The placement must involve you in legal work, exercising legal skills in a legal environment (in contrast to administrative, financial or research/academic work).
Ideally you will:
- Be exposed to the systems, procedures and work commonly found in legal practice, which applies equally to government legal practice,
- Have contact with, and responsibility to, clients – which includes government and corporate clients, and
- Be exposed to the professional responsibilities of a lawyer.
Subject to the LPE rules you may do a placement with:
- a legal practitioner in private practice
- a government, semi-government or corporate legal office
- a community legal service
- a legal aid service
- a state or Commonwealth Prosecuting authority
- a judge or magistrate
- a Tribunal member (who is a legal practitioner)
- the Legal Workshop’s Legal Aid Clinic Program or
- any other place which the LPE Convenor is satisfied provides appropriate practical experience.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
Indicative Assessment
A report is required at the end of your placement, a template is provided. This must be read and signed off by your workplace supervisor.
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Workload
The workload of LPE is dependent on the total number of days you undertake, ie. a 20, 40, 60 or 80 day placement.
Requisite and Incompatibility
You will need to contact the ANU Legal Workshop to request a permission code to enrol in this course.
Prescribed Texts
None
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 3
- Unit value:
- 3 to 12 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 3.00 | 0.06250 |
| 4.00 | 0.08333 |
| 5.00 | 0.10417 |
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
| 7.00 | 0.14583 |
| 8.00 | 0.16667 |
| 9.00 | 0.18750 |
| 10.00 | 0.20833 |
| 11.00 | 0.22917 |
| 12.00 | 0.25000 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
ANU utilises MyTimetable to enable students to view the timetable for their enrolled courses, browse, then self-allocate to small teaching activities / tutorials so they can better plan their time. Find out more on the Timetable webpage.
