Apply your legal research and communication skills to advise your clients as a Human Rights lawyer.
Are you interested in becoming a discrimination and human rights lawyer? Leo Cussen Centre for law trains people with a law degree to become practical lawyers.
Our training is about putting you in a simulated environment so that you experience what it’s really like to solve human rights issues in legal practice.
This internship focuses on legal communication skills, advising on an employment dismissal, a discrimination issue, and a deportation matter.
The 3 modules have been designed so that they increase in level of difficulty and so that your skills will build as you work through them. We therefore recommend that you work through the modules in sequential order.
As you work through these tasks, we want you to imagine that you are an employee of a community legal centre.
This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 4-5 hours to complete.
Skills Learned:
- What does the client require?
Review client communications to determine what is required.- Communication in Legal Practice
- Summarising information for your supervisor
Summarise and synthesise relevant information for your supervisor.- Synthesising Information in Legal Practice
- How legal advice can help – Alannah gets told she is fired
Help provide legal advice to an employee who appears to have been dismissed and/or discriminated against.- Communication
- Research in Employment Law
- Drafting
- Providing Legal Advice
- Advising on a potential discrimination issue
Help provide legal advice to a disabled client who appears to have been discriminated against.- Problem Solving
- Research in Discrimination Law
- Providing Legal Advice
- Summarising important information from a client facing a deportation order
Summarise instructions to challenge a deportation order.- Research in Administration Law
- Problem Solving
- Providing Legal Advice
- Memo of advice with grounds to challenge the deportation order
Draft a memo of advice to the senior lawyer about how best to challenge the client’s deportation order.- Research in Human Rights Law
- Problem Solving
- Providing Legal Advice
- Identify human rights international conventions or treaties that may apply to a deportation matter
Identifying human rights international conventions or treaties.- Research in Human Rights Law
- Problem Solving
- Providing Legal Advice
- Finish Line
