Course overview
The course is designed to demonstrate the operation of theoretical and doctrinal law in a legal environment. Students are placed for one day per week* in a legal office, supervised by a legal practitioner, and participate actively in all aspects of the work at the office, including client interviewing, community education, and case work. These placements occur at legal advice clinics run by Adelaide Law School at the Adelaide Magistrates Court, Adelaide Legal Outreach Service, and Equal Opportunity Legal Advice Service. The concurrent seminar program builds on students' experiences on placement, examining issues such as lawyer/client relationships, legal ethics, professionals and professions, justice access, and the role of our legal system in society, with explicit focus on cultural competence in relation to Aboriginal clients. * When offered over summer course entails 2 days of placement each week for 6 weeks between January and end of February.
Course learning outcomes
- Actively apply theoretical legal principles to client legal casework
- Evaluate and explain their experience of the role of the lawyer and the legal profession in the provision of a just and accessible legal system
- Demonstrate legal practice skills in dealing with clients in legal practice, including the capacity to analyse and apply different theoretical models of client centered practice
- Exercise forensic judgment and make informed and considered decisions in a legal practice environment
- Work effectively and reliably in a professional environment, both individually and as a member of a team
- Demonstrate reflexive learning practices in the form of written, verbal, video, or other apropviate performance based communication as approved by course coordinator
- Demonstrate cross cultural communication capacity learning from Aboriginal communication preferrences applied accross cultures
- Communication Skills