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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.

Contact

Name:
Carles Górriz López
Email:
Carles.Gorriz@uab.cat

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

  1. Apply the techniques, tactics and strategies needed to resolve any legal affair, whether judicially or extra-judicially.
  2. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  3. Develop the interpersonal skills that lawyers need in their relations with citizens, other professionals and institutions.
  4. Identify the interdisciplinary implications of the commission received.
  5. Identify the substantive aspects of each case and use the most appropriate means of proof.
  6. Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  7. Know the profession's code of practice.
  8. Know the workings of a law firm: administration, fiscal matters, management and resources.
  9. Locate, analyse and assess the legislation, case law and scientific doctrine applicable to the case.
  10. Master techniques for analysing problems and making professional decisions.
  11. 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.
  12. Work in specialist interdisciplinary teams.

Content

Working in a law firm developing the competences of a lawyer

Methodology

 

Same as PR I

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
same as Practic I 275 11 8, 1, 7, 10, 5, 4, 9, 6, 2, 3, 12, 11
Type: Supervised      
same as Practic I 275 11 8, 1, 7, 10, 5, 4, 9, 6, 2, 3, 12, 11
Type: Autonomous      
same as Practic I 50 2 4, 9, 2, 11

Assessment

 

Same as Pr I

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