2020/2021
Work Experience II
Code: 42702
ECTS Credits: 24
Degree |
Type |
Year |
Semester |
4313312 Legal Profession |
OB |
2 |
1 |
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
External teachers
- Es variable depenen del tutor o tutora assignat a través dels Colˇlegis professional adscrits i/o Jutjats que hi colˇlaboren
Prerequisites
To have a Law Degree and fulfill the enrolement requirements
Objectives and Contextualisation
Integration in a Law Firm or any other that requires a Lawyer
Competences
- Choose the correct strategy for defending clients' rights, while keeping in mind the particular demands of each area within professional practice.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
- Develop the interpersonal skills that lawyers need in their relations with citizens, other professionals and institutions.
- Identify conflicts of interest and know the techniques that are used to resolve these, determine the scope of professional confidentiality and maintain independence of judgement.
- Identify the essential service and organisational requirements for legal consultancy.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Know the techniques for ascertaining the facts in different types of procedure, especially the production of documents, examination and expert evidence.
- Present facts and their corresponding legal implications orally and in writing, in a way that is appropriate to the context and the addressees and, where necessary, to the established procedures.
- Understand and be able to implement the activities that support the professional lawyer: organisation, management and commercial dealings, and their legal framework, governing association, taxes, employment and data protection.
- Work in specialist interdisciplinary teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply the techniques, tactics and strategies needed to resolve any legal affair, whether judicially or extra-judicially.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
- Develop the interpersonal skills that lawyers need in their relations with citizens, other professionals and institutions.
- Identify the interdisciplinary implications of the commission received.
- Identify the substantive aspects of each case and use the most appropriate means of proof.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Know the profession's code of practice.
- Know the workings of a law firm: administration, fiscal matters, management and resources.
- Locate, analyse and assess the legislation, case law and scientific doctrine applicable to the case.
- Master techniques for analysing problems and making professional decisions.
- Present facts and their corresponding legal implications orally and in writing, in a way that is appropriate to the context and the addressees and, where necessary, to the established procedures.
- Work in specialist interdisciplinary teams.
Content
Working in a law firm developing the competences of a lawyer
Assessment Activities
Title |
Weighting |
Hours |
ECTS |
Learning Outcomes |
Student report |
10% |
0
|
0 |
8, 1, 7, 10, 5, 4, 9, 6, 2, 3, 12, 11
|
Tutor report |
90% |
0
|
0 |
7, 10, 5, 4, 9, 6, 2, 11
|
Bibliography
Same as PR I