LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
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| Unit code: | LPP111 |
|---|---|
| Antirequisite(s): | LPZ111 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $1,872 |
| International unit fee | $3,576 |
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 02A 2021, Gardens Point, Internal (Start Date: 11 Jan 2021)
| Unit code: | LPP111 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ111 |
| Coordinators: | Irene Wiseman | i.wiseman@qut.edu.au Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au Craig Smith | c7.smith@qut.edu.au Yoland Ashcroft-Smith | yoland.ashcroftsmith@qut.edu.au Liz Clark | ea.clark@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the lawyering skills identified in the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) have published standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit focuses on covers the skills area of the 'Lawyer's Skills' described as contained in those standards, which include interviewing, negotiation, advocacy and writing skills.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking when completing practical legal tasks and problem solving in the contexts of legal letter writing, document drafting, interviewing, negotiation and advocacy (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2,1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- Communicate your advice on a complex legal matter to a client in writing (CLOs 1.1,1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2)
- Apply intercultural awareness to identify and respond appropriately to cross-cultural communication issues that may affect your interactions with clients and affect clients’ interactions with the legal system in some specified circumstances (CLO 3.4)
- Represent a client’s interests in the contexts of documenting an agreement (CLO 1.2, 2.3, 4.2)
Content
This unit consists of training in:
- legal letter writing
- legal document drafting
- client interviewing
- negotiation
- advocacy.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. This is to say that it utilises an instructional method of hands-on, active learning centred on the investigation and resolution of 'messy', real-world problems. This makes for self-directed learning where you, the student, are the problem solver and your teacher is the facilitator. The unit's approach to learning and teaching is designed to enable you to learn and practice the relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Blackboard.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment items in this unit are designed to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. All assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) sheet. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Assessment items that are not assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale have marks awarded to them according to the relevant CRA sheet. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA sheet, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes. Notwithstanding this requirement, the mark that you receive on your first submission will be the mark used to determine your final overall grade for the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
During the attendance school you will participate in lawyer and client interviews, a negotiation and a two-day advocacy intensive. Your performance as a lawyer in the interview and negotiation will be peer-reviewed. You should take into consideration any matters of cultural diversity in liaising with your client. You will also be asked to analyse videos of cross-cultural interactions and evaluate how the parties dealt with the differences in communication that arose. Your performance in the advocacy intensive will assessed by staff. Prior to the advocacy intensive, you will be required to submit a theory of your case based on the unit materials. As you progress through the practical advocacy tasks at the attendance school, you will receive oral feedback that will inform your next presentation.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you draft a letter to a client in which you advise the client of their options for solving a problem that has risen out of a commercial relationship that the client has had with another person. You will need to apply will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving ability, creative thinking ability and your letter-writing skills to provide effective advice to the client in your letter. in providing advice to a client in a complex legal matter. The task will require you to identify and evaluate several options for the client. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete two optional letter-writing tasks for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your letter writing. The indicative work length of this task is 2000 words.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you provide a solution to the problem of protecting a client’s interests when documenting a settlement agreement. In drafting your agreement you will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving and and your document-drafting skills. to documenting an agreement in an appropriate form and with appropriate content to protect your client's interests under the agreement. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete some document-drafting exercises for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your document drafting.The indicative word length of this task is 1000 words.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 02A 2021, Gardens Point, External (Start Date: 11 Jan 2021)
| Unit code: | LPP111 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ111 |
| Coordinators: | Irene Wiseman | i.wiseman@qut.edu.au Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au Craig Smith | c7.smith@qut.edu.au Yoland Ashcroft-Smith | yoland.ashcroftsmith@qut.edu.au Liz Clark | ea.clark@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the lawyering skills identified in the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) have published standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit focuses on covers the skills area of the 'Lawyer's Skills' described as contained in those standards, which include interviewing, negotiation, advocacy and writing skills.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking when completing practical legal tasks and problem solving in the contexts of legal letter writing, document drafting, interviewing, negotiation and advocacy (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2,1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- Communicate your advice on a complex legal matter to a client in writing (CLOs 1.1,1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2)
- Apply intercultural awareness to identify and respond appropriately to cross-cultural communication issues that may affect your interactions with clients and affect clients’ interactions with the legal system in some specified circumstances (CLO 3.4)
- Represent a client’s interests in the contexts of documenting an agreement (CLO 1.2, 2.3, 4.2)
Content
This unit consists of training in:
- legal letter writing
- legal document drafting
- client interviewing
- negotiation
- advocacy.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. This is to say that it utilises an instructional method of hands-on, active learning centred on the investigation and resolution of 'messy', real-world problems. This makes for self-directed learning where you, the student, are the problem solver and your teacher is the facilitator. The unit's approach to learning and teaching is designed to enable you to learn and practice the relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Blackboard.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment items in this unit are designed to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. All assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) sheet. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Assessment items that are not assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale have marks awarded to them according to the relevant CRA sheet. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA sheet, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes. Notwithstanding this requirement, the mark that you receive on your first submission will be the mark used to determine your final overall grade for the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
During the attendance school you will participate in lawyer and client interviews, a negotiation and a two-day advocacy intensive. Your performance as a lawyer in the interview and negotiation will be peer-reviewed. You should take into consideration any matters of cultural diversity in liaising with your client. You will also be asked to analyse videos of cross-cultural interactions and evaluate how the parties dealt with the differences in communication that arose. Your performance in the advocacy intensive will assessed by staff. Prior to the advocacy intensive, you will be required to submit a theory of your case based on the unit materials. As you progress through the practical advocacy tasks at the attendance school, you will receive oral feedback that will inform your next presentation.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you draft a letter to a client in which you advise the client of their options for solving a problem that has risen out of a commercial relationship that the client has had with another person. You will need to apply will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving ability, creative thinking ability and your letter-writing skills to provide effective advice to the client in your letter. in providing advice to a client in a complex legal matter. The task will require you to identify and evaluate several options for the client. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete two optional letter-writing tasks for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your letter writing. The indicative work length of this task is 2000 words.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you provide a solution to the problem of protecting a client’s interests when documenting a settlement agreement. In drafting your agreement you will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving and and your document-drafting skills. to documenting an agreement in an appropriate form and with appropriate content to protect your client's interests under the agreement. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete some document-drafting exercises for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your document drafting.The indicative word length of this task is 1000 words.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 04A 2021, Gardens Point, External (Start Date: 08 Mar 2021)
| Unit code: | LPP111 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ111 |
| Coordinators: | Irene Wiseman | i.wiseman@qut.edu.au Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au Craig Smith | c7.smith@qut.edu.au Yoland Ashcroft-Smith | yoland.ashcroftsmith@qut.edu.au Liz Clark | ea.clark@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the lawyering skills identified in the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) have published standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit focuses on covers the skills area of the 'Lawyer's Skills' described as contained in those standards, which include interviewing, negotiation, advocacy and writing skills.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking when completing practical legal tasks and problem solving in the contexts of legal letter writing, document drafting, interviewing, negotiation and advocacy (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2,1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- Communicate your advice on a complex legal matter to a client in writing (CLOs 1.1,1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2)
- Apply intercultural awareness to identify and respond appropriately to cross-cultural communication issues that may affect your interactions with clients and affect clients’ interactions with the legal system in some specified circumstances (CLO 3.4)
- Represent a client’s interests in the contexts of documenting an agreement (CLO 1.2, 2.3, 4.2)
Content
This unit consists of training in:
- legal letter writing
- legal document drafting
- client interviewing
- negotiation
- advocacy.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. This is to say that it utilises an instructional method of hands-on, active learning centred on the investigation and resolution of 'messy', real-world problems. This makes for self-directed learning where you, the student, are the problem solver and your teacher is the facilitator. The unit's approach to learning and teaching is designed to enable you to learn and practice the relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Blackboard.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment items in this unit are designed to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. All assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) sheet. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Assessment items that are not assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale have marks awarded to them according to the relevant CRA sheet. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA sheet, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes. Notwithstanding this requirement, the mark that you receive on your first submission will be the mark used to determine your final overall grade for the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
During the attendance school you will participate in lawyer and client interviews, a negotiation and a two-day advocacy intensive. Your performance as a lawyer in the interview and negotiation will be peer-reviewed. You should take into consideration any matters of cultural diversity in liaising with your client. You will also be asked to analyse videos of cross-cultural interactions and evaluate how the parties dealt with the differences in communication that arose. Your performance in the advocacy intensive will assessed by staff. Prior to the advocacy intensive, you will be required to submit a theory of your case based on the unit materials. As you progress through the practical advocacy tasks at the attendance school, you will receive oral feedback that will inform your next presentation.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you draft a letter to a client in which you advise the client of their options for solving a problem that has risen out of a commercial relationship that the client has had with another person. You will need to apply will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving ability, creative thinking ability and your letter-writing skills to provide effective advice to the client in your letter. in providing advice to a client in a complex legal matter. The task will require you to identify and evaluate several options for the client. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete two optional letter-writing tasks for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your letter writing. The indicative work length of this task is 2000 words.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you provide a solution to the problem of protecting a client’s interests when documenting a settlement agreement. In drafting your agreement you will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving and and your document-drafting skills. to documenting an agreement in an appropriate form and with appropriate content to protect your client's interests under the agreement. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete some document-drafting exercises for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your document drafting.The indicative word length of this task is 1000 words.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 08A 2021, Gardens Point, Internal (Start Date: 26 Jul 2021)
| Unit code: | LPP111 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ111 |
| Coordinators: | Irene Wiseman | i.wiseman@qut.edu.au Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au Craig Smith | c7.smith@qut.edu.au Yoland Ashcroft-Smith | yoland.ashcroftsmith@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the lawyering skills identified in the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) have published standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit focuses on covers the skills area of the 'Lawyer's Skills' described as contained in those standards, which include interviewing, negotiation, advocacy and writing skills.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking when completing practical legal tasks and problem solving in the contexts of legal letter writing, document drafting, interviewing, negotiation and advocacy (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2,1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- Communicate your advice on a complex legal matter to a client in writing (CLOs 1.1,1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2)
- Apply intercultural awareness to identify and respond appropriately to cross-cultural communication issues that may affect your interactions with clients and affect clients’ interactions with the legal system in some specified circumstances (CLO 3.4)
- Represent a client’s interests in the contexts of documenting an agreement (CLO 1.2, 2.3, 4.2)
Content
This unit consists of training in:
- legal letter writing
- legal document drafting
- client interviewing
- negotiation
- advocacy.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. This is to say that it utilises an instructional method of hands-on, active learning centred on the investigation and resolution of 'messy', real-world problems. This makes for self-directed learning where you, the student, are the problem solver and your teacher is the facilitator. The unit's approach to learning and teaching is designed to enable you to learn and practice the relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Blackboard.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment items in this unit are designed to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. All assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) sheet. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Assessment items that are not assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale have marks awarded to them according to the relevant CRA sheet. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA sheet, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes. Notwithstanding this requirement, the mark that you receive on your first submission will be the mark used to determine your final overall grade for the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
During the attendance school you will participate in lawyer and client interviews, a negotiation and a two-day advocacy intensive. Your performance as a lawyer in the interview and negotiation will be peer-reviewed. You should take into consideration any matters of cultural diversity in liaising with your client. You will also be asked to analyse videos of cross-cultural interactions and evaluate how the parties dealt with the differences in communication that arose. Your performance in the advocacy intensive will assessed by staff. Prior to the advocacy intensive, you will be required to submit a theory of your case based on the unit materials. As you progress through the practical advocacy tasks at the attendance school, you will receive oral feedback that will inform your next presentation.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you draft a letter to a client in which you advise the client of their options for solving a problem that has risen out of a commercial relationship that the client has had with another person. You will need to apply will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving ability, creative thinking ability and your letter-writing skills to provide effective advice to the client in your letter. in providing advice to a client in a complex legal matter. The task will require you to identify and evaluate several options for the client. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete two optional letter-writing tasks for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your letter writing. The indicative work length of this task is 2000 words.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you provide a solution to the problem of protecting a client’s interests when documenting a settlement agreement. In drafting your agreement you will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving and and your document-drafting skills. to documenting an agreement in an appropriate form and with appropriate content to protect your client's interests under the agreement. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete some document-drafting exercises for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your document drafting.The indicative word length of this task is 1000 words.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 08A 2021, Gardens Point, External (Start Date: 26 Jul 2021)
| Unit code: | LPP111 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ111 |
| Coordinators: | Irene Wiseman | i.wiseman@qut.edu.au Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au Craig Smith | c7.smith@qut.edu.au Yoland Ashcroft-Smith | yoland.ashcroftsmith@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the lawyering skills identified in the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) have published standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit focuses on covers the skills area of the 'Lawyer's Skills' described as contained in those standards, which include interviewing, negotiation, advocacy and writing skills.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking when completing practical legal tasks and problem solving in the contexts of legal letter writing, document drafting, interviewing, negotiation and advocacy (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2,1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- Communicate your advice on a complex legal matter to a client in writing (CLOs 1.1,1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2)
- Apply intercultural awareness to identify and respond appropriately to cross-cultural communication issues that may affect your interactions with clients and affect clients’ interactions with the legal system in some specified circumstances (CLO 3.4)
- Represent a client’s interests in the contexts of documenting an agreement (CLO 1.2, 2.3, 4.2)
Content
This unit consists of training in:
- legal letter writing
- legal document drafting
- client interviewing
- negotiation
- advocacy.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. This is to say that it utilises an instructional method of hands-on, active learning centred on the investigation and resolution of 'messy', real-world problems. This makes for self-directed learning where you, the student, are the problem solver and your teacher is the facilitator. The unit's approach to learning and teaching is designed to enable you to learn and practice the relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Blackboard.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment items in this unit are designed to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. All assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) sheet. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Assessment items that are not assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale have marks awarded to them according to the relevant CRA sheet. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA sheet, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes. Notwithstanding this requirement, the mark that you receive on your first submission will be the mark used to determine your final overall grade for the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
During the attendance school you will participate in lawyer and client interviews, a negotiation and a two-day advocacy intensive. Your performance as a lawyer in the interview and negotiation will be peer-reviewed. You should take into consideration any matters of cultural diversity in liaising with your client. You will also be asked to analyse videos of cross-cultural interactions and evaluate how the parties dealt with the differences in communication that arose. Your performance in the advocacy intensive will assessed by staff. Prior to the advocacy intensive, you will be required to submit a theory of your case based on the unit materials. As you progress through the practical advocacy tasks at the attendance school, you will receive oral feedback that will inform your next presentation.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you draft a letter to a client in which you advise the client of their options for solving a problem that has risen out of a commercial relationship that the client has had with another person. You will need to apply will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving ability, creative thinking ability and your letter-writing skills to provide effective advice to the client in your letter. in providing advice to a client in a complex legal matter. The task will require you to identify and evaluate several options for the client. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete two optional letter-writing tasks for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your letter writing. The indicative work length of this task is 2000 words.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you provide a solution to the problem of protecting a client’s interests when documenting a settlement agreement. In drafting your agreement you will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving and and your document-drafting skills. to documenting an agreement in an appropriate form and with appropriate content to protect your client's interests under the agreement. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete some document-drafting exercises for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your document drafting.The indicative word length of this task is 1000 words.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 09A 2021, Gardens Point, External (Start Date: 16 Aug 2021)
| Unit code: | LPP111 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ111 |
| Coordinators: | Irene Wiseman | i.wiseman@qut.edu.au Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au Craig Smith | c7.smith@qut.edu.au Yoland Ashcroft-Smith | yoland.ashcroftsmith@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the lawyering skills identified in the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) have published standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit focuses on covers the skills area of the 'Lawyer's Skills' described as contained in those standards, which include interviewing, negotiation, advocacy and writing skills.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking when completing practical legal tasks and problem solving in the contexts of legal letter writing, document drafting, interviewing, negotiation and advocacy (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2,1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- Communicate your advice on a complex legal matter to a client in writing (CLOs 1.1,1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2)
- Apply intercultural awareness to identify and respond appropriately to cross-cultural communication issues that may affect your interactions with clients and affect clients’ interactions with the legal system in some specified circumstances (CLO 3.4)
- Represent a client’s interests in the contexts of documenting an agreement (CLO 1.2, 2.3, 4.2)
Content
This unit consists of training in:
- legal letter writing
- legal document drafting
- client interviewing
- negotiation
- advocacy.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. This is to say that it utilises an instructional method of hands-on, active learning centred on the investigation and resolution of 'messy', real-world problems. This makes for self-directed learning where you, the student, are the problem solver and your teacher is the facilitator. The unit's approach to learning and teaching is designed to enable you to learn and practice the relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Blackboard.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment items in this unit are designed to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. All assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) sheet. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Assessment items that are not assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale have marks awarded to them according to the relevant CRA sheet. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA sheet, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes. Notwithstanding this requirement, the mark that you receive on your first submission will be the mark used to determine your final overall grade for the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
During the attendance school you will participate in lawyer and client interviews, a negotiation and a two-day advocacy intensive. Your performance as a lawyer in the interview and negotiation will be peer-reviewed. You should take into consideration any matters of cultural diversity in liaising with your client. You will also be asked to analyse videos of cross-cultural interactions and evaluate how the parties dealt with the differences in communication that arose. Your performance in the advocacy intensive will assessed by staff. Prior to the advocacy intensive, you will be required to submit a theory of your case based on the unit materials. As you progress through the practical advocacy tasks at the attendance school, you will receive oral feedback that will inform your next presentation.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you draft a letter to a client in which you advise the client of their options for solving a problem that has risen out of a commercial relationship that the client has had with another person. You will need to apply will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving ability, creative thinking ability and your letter-writing skills to provide effective advice to the client in your letter. in providing advice to a client in a complex legal matter. The task will require you to identify and evaluate several options for the client. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete two optional letter-writing tasks for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your letter writing. The indicative work length of this task is 2000 words.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
In this task you provide a solution to the problem of protecting a client’s interests when documenting a settlement agreement. In drafting your agreement you will apply your legal and procedural knowledge, problem solving and and your document-drafting skills. to documenting an agreement in an appropriate form and with appropriate content to protect your client's interests under the agreement. In Week 2 you will have had the opportunity to complete some document-drafting exercises for the purpose of acquiring formative feedback on your document drafting.The indicative word length of this task is 1000 words.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.