MLL351 - Community Legal Internship

Unit details

Year

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Placement
Trimester 2: Placement
Trimester 3: Placement

Enrolment by application only. Refer to note below.

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Rebecca Tisdale
Trimester 2: Rebecca Tisdale
Trimester 3: Rebecca Tisdale
Previously:

Legal Internship

Cohort rule:

For Bachelor of Laws (including combined Law awards) students only

Prerequisite:

Successful completion of 6 MLL/MLP/MLT coded Law units

Corequisite:

MLP235

Incompatible with: Nil
In-person attendance requirements:

Students are required to complete:

(a) A supervised work placement (minimum 7.5 hours x 15 days) with a host organisation in a legal environment;

(b) A mandatory 3-hour university induction prior to the commencement of the trimester; and

(c) A debrief with the host supervisor at the end of the trimester.

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Note:

Business & Law Work Integrated Learning (WIL) units are by application only and quotas may apply.

This unit can only be completed once.

Please visit the website for further information and how to apply.

Please contact the Faculty WIL team at bl-wil@deakin.edu.au for any enquiries. Please use your Deakin email and state your student ID in all correspondence.

Content

The unit enables students to gain an appreciation of certain aspects of legal practice and to extend and deepen their theoretical knowledge of the law by working under supervision of a lawyer. During their placement in the law firm or legal service, students will receive instruction in the following areas of legal practice: taking instructions and client interviewing; fact finding; dispute resolution and negotiation; providing advice and counselling of a legal nature; legal research and problem-solving; the litigation process; advocacy.

Learning Outcomes

ULO These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can:

Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)

ULO1

Apply discipline-specific knowledge, research skills, and analytical legal problem-solving skills, in a community legal service or not-for-profit legal practice.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Reflect on the access to justice issues that arise, and on the ethical and professional duties and obligations that apply, in a community-focused legal environment, and explain how such issues are handled in practice.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO3

Reflect on own capacity to work constructively, collaboratively and perceptively in a community-focused legal environment

GLO6: Self-management 

ULO4

Plan for and reflect on own capacity to work constructively, collaboratively and perceptively in a community-focused practical legal environment.

GLO2: Communication
GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: (Individual) Pre-placement tasks 1000 words 20% Week 2
Assessment 2: (Individual) Written Reflection (self) 4000 words 40% Information not yet available
Assessment 3: (Individual) Host Evaluation N/A 40% Information not yet available

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

Hurdle requirement: Attendance at mandatory induction (face to face or online, as advised) prior to commencement of placement. Minimum of 100 hours of placement with an approved host organisation.

Learning resource

The texts and reading list for MLL351 can be found via the University Library.

Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

Unit Fee Information

Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.

Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.

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