GDLP Brochure - College of Law

UPGRADE YOUR PROFS! Activate your career with the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice With a market leading reputation amongst students and employers for delivering the Professional Legal Studies Course (Profs) since 2003, The College of Law now has over 10,000 Profs graduates in all sectors of industry in New Zealand. Since 2019, graduates of Profs have the opportunity to upgrade their qualification to an internationally accredited Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (GDLP).

Includes scheduled interactions with an experienced practitioner mentor

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About The Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (GDLP) is an internationally recognised qualification that builds on your experience gained during the Professional Legal Studies Course (Profs).

The GDLP looks closely at the real world of legal practice and features scheduled interactions with an experienced practitioner mentor to guide you through analysing and reflecting on professionalism in practice.

Upon graduation of the programme, you will also benefit from one subject credit towards the College’s LLM (Applied Law) programme which will allow you to specialise in your chosen area of practice. In addition, you will also be able to claim CPD points.

What you will learn?

The GDLP involves seven modules and includes online resources to assist with learning, as well as scheduled submissions and mentor sessions. Other than the scheduled activities, you can progress through the learning resources and tasks at your own pace, where and when it suits you.

Each module will involve analysing and reflecting on how the subject works in practice.

Module 1 – Professional Effectiveness

Module 2 – Ethics in action

Identify and implement tools to increase your own personal effectiveness in a professional environment

Critically analyse a recent judgment handed down in an actual legal disciplinary matter, identify what went wrong and how it could have been prevented

Module 3 – The lawyer, client relationship

Module 4 – Delivery of Legal services

Analyse the way in which clients’ (or any consumers of legal services) expectations are identified and managed in a legal office or workplace

Analyse the way in which legal personnel and processes are used to resolve actual client or consumer problems

MENTOR SESSION

MENTOR SESSION

Module 5 – Legal Practice Management

Module 6 – LegalTech and Business Skills

Analyse the way in which legal management processes are employed in an office or workplace that delivers legal services

Understand emerging technologies and the influence they will have on legal work and workplaces

Module 7 – Professionalism in practice Bringing together the above six tasks. Demonstrate the ability to discuss your work and ideas with a senior practitioner and incorporate a mentor’s input into your own understanding of legal practice and legal professionalism.

MENTOR SESSION

Read more details about the components of the programme www.collaw.ac.nz/gdlp

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Course Dates START DATE

CENSUS DATE

END DATE

13 November 2023

6 December 2023

19 January 2024

12 February 2024

28 February 2024

12 April 2024

13 May 2024

29 May 2024

12 July 2024

12 August 2024

28 August 2024

11 October 2024

11 November 2024

27 November 2024

17 January 2025

Time Commitment & Location Duration: 9 weeks – 37 hours per week

Programme fee The domestic student fee is $2,587.50 (GST inc.)

The international student fee is $2,587.50 (GST inc.)

Prerequisites

Find out more For more information about the GDLP programme visit www.collaw.ac.nz/gdlp If you’ve got questions about the programme or you’d like to register your interest you can call us on 0800 COLLAW (265529) or email enquiries@collaw.ac.nz

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Current as at 02/11/2023

You must have completed the Professional Legal Studies Course (Profs). There is no work experience requirement.