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2022/2023

Work Experience I

Code: 42701 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4313312 Legal Profession OB 1 2

Contact

Name:
Jorge Miquel Rodríguez
Email:
jorge.miquel@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)

Prerequisites

 

To have a Law degree and being enrolled in the Master

Objectives and Contextualisation

Colaboration with a legal firm or any other legal institution (ie Courts, legal department in enterprises)

Competences

  • Defend clients' rights within the framework of national and international jurisdictional systems.
  • Develop the interpersonal skills that lawyers need in their relations with citizens, other professionals and institutions.
  • 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.
  • Put into practice the specialist academic knowledge acquired on the degree programme in order to avoid damage, risk or conflict with respect to clients' interests or regarding professional practice before the courts and other authorities and when offering consultancy services.
  • Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  • Work in specialist interdisciplinary teams.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Develop the interpersonal skills that lawyers need in their relations with citizens, other professionals and institutions.
  2. Locate, analyse and assess the legislation, case law and scientific doctrine applicable to the case.
  3. 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.
  4. Search for, select and appraise the information required.
  5. Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  6. Work in specialist interdisciplinary teams.

Content

Students work in a legal firm or the legal department in any enterprise or public institution even in courts

Methodology

 

Practical methodology, working in the legal profession

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
activitites at the place of destiny 125 5 4, 2, 5, 1, 6, 3
Type: Supervised      
search of case law and similar activities 10 0.4 4, 2, 3
writing legal documents 10 0.4 4, 2, 5, 6, 3
Type: Autonomous      
report writing 5 0.2 4, 1, 6

Assessment

 

90% of the mark is obtained with a report written by the tutor

10% of the mark is obtained with a report written by the student

 

 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Student report 10% 0 0 4, 2, 5, 1, 6, 3
Tutor report 90% 0 0 4, 2, 5, 6, 3

Bibliography

-AA.VV., Acceso a la abogacía, 2015-2016, Madrid: Francis Lefebvre, 2015.

-PALOMAR OLMEDO, Alberto(Dir.), Practicum acceso a la abogacía 2016, Cizur Menor (Navarra): Aranzadi,2015

Software

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