Online Delivery

PDLP students working at the Monash Law Chambers

The Monash PDLP aims to develop the knowledge and skills required in legal practice and provides an alternative route to admission to practice as a lawyer in Victoria. On successful completion of this course, you will be admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor, without the need to do a year of articles.*

Online course

The online delivery mode is suitable for graduates who wish to undertake practical legal training in a format which permits maximum flexibility regarding time and location. It is particularly appropriate for graduates currently working full or part-time in a law firm or elsewhere.

Students working in a law firm may be able to use the experience gained in that concurrent work placement to satisfy part of the PDLP requirements. Those not working in a law firm will attend the Monash legal clinics for hands-on training.

The course is taught through online units, supported by regular face-to-face sessions and commences with a one-week full-time face-to-face skills intensive at the Monash University Law Chambers. These sessions are made up of one week of skills training at the commencement of the course, which runs from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday, other two to three full day intensive sessions during the course and regular face-to-face sessions held approximately every four weeks on a weekday evening at the Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne.

In addition, if you are undertaking the clinical component of the course (rather than the workplace component) you will be required to attend clinic session held on held on specific weeknights during the course.

The course involves 39 weeks of part-time online study and commences in March each year.

Hear from Vincent Lim, PDLP online graduate 2005, Assistant Manager – Private Equity, Perpetual Ltd.

*Admission to practice may be subject to an undertaking to the Supreme Court not to engage in independent private practice (otherwise than as an employee practitioner) until you have been employed for a specified period as a legal practitioner.