What skills can I learn?

Our secondees report a high level of satisfaction with their wide exposure to clients, barristers and solicitors and enjoy the diversity of legal issues they encounter at PILCH. Our secondees report improvements in the following skill areas:

• communication skills - the ability to deliver complex messages clearly and concisely, whether to Counsel, lawyers or clients;
• file management - taking responsibility for progressing and monitoring multiple client files, ensuring accurate file notes are kept and supervisors are consulted appropriately; and
• time management - the ability to juggle multiple files for clients with complex needs while also contributing to PILCH's law reform work, developing case studies and supporting the team to respond to inquiry trends.

Secondees also build knowledge and understanding of:

• litigation procedures in various jurisdictions;
• the complex web of legal service providers in Victoria - government, pro bono and community legal; and
• diverse areas of law from employment law to administrative law, charity law, property law, elder law and beyond.

Secondees are given a degree of autonomy over their client work that allows them to think creatively, juggle multiple demanding client files and develop their professional judgment in an environment where commercial relationships are not at stake.

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