Juris Doctor / Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

Course Details

Designed for university graduates, Newcastle Law School’s Juris Doctor (JD) and the embedded Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP) will not only open doors to employment as a lawyer, it will provide you with professional skills and attributes that are in high demand in other industries and professions. At most other law schools, after you finish your JD you must then undertake practical legal training and arrange supervised legal workplace experience before you can apply to be a lawyer. As part of the embedded GDLP, we provide the required practical legal training and we guarantee to arrange the required supervised legal workplace experience for you. This means you can be ready to practise law after three years of full time study, with no need for further supervision or training before you start your legal career. The JD/GDLP is not only accredited in Australia; with some further study it can help qualify you to practise law in a number of other common law countries, including Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Qualification: Master Degree (Extended)

Course structure: The Juris Doctor (JD) / Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice comprises 280 units (i.e 28 x 10 unit courses), which includes 210 units of core courses including the Legal Practice courses, plus 70 units of directed courses chosen from a list of 40 courses (subject to availability).

Newcastle Law School is a welcoming community. The School's award-winning teachers actively seek to get to know students. Similarly, the very active University of Newcastle Law Students' Association (UNLSA) is at the heart of the student community and allows students to form relationships that help at university and beyond. Newcastles Juris Doctor/Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice program will not only open doors to employment as a lawyer, it provides professional skills and attributes that are in high demand in other industries and professions.