Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

Online delivery of the practical legal training (PLT) course during COVID-19 restrictions includes:

a five-day virtual attendance school delivered online virtual work placement options interaction with other students and instructors via Zoom and other digital media.

Why choose this course?

Domestic Students

The Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (PLT) consists of 8 units totalling 96 credit points.

Our PLT is structured into 3 components: skills, practice areas and a work placement.

1. Skills component

You will learn professional skills such as negotiation, drafting and ethics.

• Lawyers skills
• Work skills

Delivery:

• 6 weeks for all students – mostly online
• 5-day attendance school (or virtually if COVID-19 restrictions apply).

2. Practice areas component

​There are 4 compulsory units and you can choose 2 electives (from criminal, administrative, family law practice, wills and estates, planning and environment, employment and industrial relations, consumer law and banking and finance).

• Civil litigation
• Commercial
• Property
• Electives
• Interaction

Delivery:

• 13 weeks full-time or 26 weeks part-time (excluding breaks)
• Full-time or part-time online
• Full-time on campus (January/ July entries)

3. Placement

​We will find a 4-week work placement for you at a law office, unless you have credit for your legal work experience. Virtual workplace options are available.

• Placement unit details

International Students

The Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (PLT) consists of 8 units totalling 96 credit points.

Our PLT is structured into 3 components: skills, practice areas and a work placement

 

3. Skills component

You will learn professional skills such as negotiation, drafting and ethics.

• Lawyers skills
• Work skills

Delivery:

• 6 weeks for all students – mostly online
• 5-day attendance school (or virtually if COVID-19 restrictions apply)

2. Practice areas component

There are 4 compulsory units and you can choose 2 electives (from criminal, administrative, family law practice, wills and estates, planning and environment, employment and industrial relations, consumer law and banking and finance).

• Civil litigation
• Commercial
• Property
• Electives
• Interaction

Delivery:

• Full-time on campus (January/ July entries)

3. Placement

We will find a 4-week work placement for you at a law office, unless you have credit for your legal work experience. Virtual placement options are available.

• Placement unit details

• A recognised bachelor degree (or higher qualification) in law (or equivalent study) which is approved for admission by the Australian legal profession; or
• Currently studying for such a (or higher qualification) in law (or equivalent study) with no more than two units to complete by the date the course commences and neither of those units is a unit commonly known as the "Priestly 11"; and
• You have the permission of the Queensland Legal Practitioners Admissions Board to commence the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice while you complete those units.

Additional entry information

If your qualification is from overseas you will need to apply to the Legal Practitioners Admissions Board (LPAB) (Queensland). You will need to submit the LPAB letter as part of your application.

Professional recognition(DOM,INT)

The course is approved by the Queensland Legal Practitioners Admissions Board as satisfying the practical legal training requirements for admission to the legal profession in Queensland.

Possible careers

• Barrister
• Crown Law Officer
• In-House Lawyer
• Solicitor