Diploma Centre course for law-firm staff
Applications are still open for a Law Society Diploma Centre course aimed at equipping legal staff with the skills needed to support solicitors in their work.
The Diploma in Legal Skills for Legal Executives, which starts on 4 November, will equip legal executives, paralegals, secretaries, and other legal staff with the practical legal skills, foundational knowledge, and competencies essential to support solicitors in their work.
The centre describes the diploma as “a highly practical course” that will provide participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to approach their day-to-day work efficiently and with confidence.
Lecturers will emphasise the practical aspects of working in a legal office and set out the steps involved in various common types of legal transactions.
Benefits
The course will also look at some of the main issues that legal staff encounter while working in a legal office, such as data-protection issues, cyber risks, and anti-money-laundering.
The benefits for students are:
- Upskill and reskill to excel in a role,
- Workshop-based and highly practical,
- Develop crucial knowledge of business of law and how to run a legal office, and
- Gain key skills to support practitioners in legal office work.
Benefits for legal teams include:
- Investment in the education and upskilling of staff,
- Students emerge with practical, applicable skills and knowledge of immediate benefit to the wider team, and
- The course is designed so that students will come away being able to effectively and confidently assist and support solicitors in their work.
‘Fresh expertise’
Dr Gabriel Brennan (senior manager at Law Society Diploma Centre) said: “The Diploma Centre strives to provide new study programmes and pathways to education that are accessible to legal professionals of all levels.
“We are proud to offer this new course, which will help participants enhance their skills, expand their career opportunities, and bring fresh expertise and efficiency back to their offices, benefiting employers and teams alike.”
The course is open to those who have two years’ experience working as a legal executive or in a similar role, or, those who have completed the Law Society’s Certificate in Legal Skills for Legal Secretaries or Certificate in Conveyancing and Property Law for Legal Executives.
For further information about the course, contact Riona Leahy, course leader, by emailing r.leahy@lawsociety.ie or go to .