Re: Once you graduate are you technically a lawyer? or do you have take a bar exam li
In melbourne, after graduating you have to complete practical legal training "PLT" at either college of law or leo cussens...
it is basically 24 weeks where you go from 9 - 5 and you pay to pretend to be a lawyer so you can get a practicing licence... costs close to $10k to do that shit...
But wait there is more... after graduating you must provide proof that you are of good fame and character (basically you have to prove that you are a fit and proper person to be admitted)... if you are found to not be suitable by the council of legal education's board of examiners you will be refused a practicing licence... If you engage in conduct which hurts your good fame and character as a solicitor or barrister you will struck off by these chaps...
conduct which wont do you any favours include:
- Plagiarism and Collusion,
- Criminal Conviction,
- Insolvency (Bankruptcy),
- Tax evasion,
- etc
However, just because you have done some of these things in the past it doesn't mean you will not be entitled to practice... admission is sort of decided on an ad hoc basis in my opinion... However, I am well aware that the board of examiners don't take anything lightly... Doing this merely entitles you to be a solicitor... If you want to become a barrister, guess what, there's more