Trainee Solicitor Program

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Law graduates who are completing 'Supervised Workplace Experience' programs (formerly 'articles of clerkship') in law firms are required to complete 90 hours of 'approved training' as a prerequisite for admission as a legal practioner of the Supreme Court of Queensland (see rule 9 of the Supreme Court (Admission) Rules 2004). QUT is approved to provide you with that training.

QUT's "Trainee Solicitor Program" (TSP) provides 'approved training' that incorporates your choice of either one 'core' area of practice or two 'elective' areas of practice. As you may know, your workplace training has to cover all the areas of practice set out in the Admission Rules. QUT's TSP program enables you to cover some of those areas as part of your 'approved training' requirement. If you need to complete training in any other practice areas, which is not being provided in your workplace- we can help you in that by providing you with approved 'supplementary' training in those areas.

QUT has been approved by the Legal Practitioners Admissions Board to provide both 'approved training' and supplementary training'. Our training is provided online. You can commence our training at any time you wish. While 'Criminal law' has a one day attendance component, all the other units can be completed wholly on-line. Trainees complete each unit within a 6 month period from the commencement date, and are provided with a suggested timetable to assist with time management. We provide high quality training backed by our extensive experience in training Queensland legal practitioners and our 'state-of-the-art' on-line delivery platform and our friendly and helpful staff.

For applications and fee information refer to the registration form.

Your choice of Units

Trainees who are undertaking 'supplementary training' may also choose from the units listed above, in order to meet the list of workplace competencies required under the admissions legislation.

For background information about the legislative training scheme, you may be interested in an article published in the October 2005 Proctor (page 15) which was written by Allan Chay (Director, Legal Practice Unit) and Melissa Timmins (Secretary, Legal Practitioners Admissions Board) entitled Supervised workplace experience replaces articles of clerkship.

Further Information

View the TSP Unit Outlines [pdf 281 kb]

For further information, please contact Liz Clark on (07) 3138 2211, or email your enquiry to tsp@qut.edu.au.

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