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COMMITTED TO LOCAL LAWYERS
Headquartered in Sydney, the College has campuses in Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane,
Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Wellington.
We also run programs in Apia (Samoa), Cairns, Canberra, Christchurch, Darwin, Dunedin, Hamilton, The Gold
Coast and Townsville. The College is the only provider of postgraduate law programs with locations in all the
major cities of Australia and New Zealand.
The College works closely with the legal professional bodies and the statutory legal profession admission bodies
across all its jurisdictions. We also work closely with the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council
(APLEC) and the Continuing Legal Education Association of Australasia for CPD Professional (CLEAA). The College
is also actively involved with the three important international legal professional organsiations operating in our
region - LawAsia, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) and the International Bar Association (IBA).
SUPPORTING THE PROFESSION
THROUGH CONTINUING You can tell
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT lawyers that have
done the course
as they practise
The College runs a range of short programs to meet the continuing professional at a completely
development (CPD) requirements of the legal profession. Our CPD programs different level.
include on-demand online webinars and face-to-face seminars, workshops and – MASTER OF
multi-day conferences. We aim to ensure that our CPD programs enable lawyers to
acquire new skills and knowledge to help build their practice or career. APPLIED LAW
(FAMILY LAW)
The College delivers courses in legal practice management to meet the requirements
of legal profession regulators in New South Wales, Queensland and Western GRADUATE
Australia - where such courses are accredited and prescribed as a pre-requisite for
lawyers to practise as a principal. The College is currently developing a similar course,
on behalf of the Law Society of Hong Kong, to facilitate its introduction of a similar
requirement in Hong Kong.