Consultancy Services
Law offices
Modern international law offices depend on the quality of their lawyers. Good lawyers can be recruited, but they also need to be developed in their work so that they become increasingly expert and productive. This means that every law office needs a well designed and well run professional development and training programme. Although seen as important, this is often one of the hardest things to implement in rapidly growing legal offices, often with a high proportion of junior professional staff. Another issue may be the lawyers' capacity to work in a language other than their own.
Range of Services
The College of Law Alliance seeks to meet this need by providing a full range of services. We can provide -
- assistance with your initial strategic planning and identification of what you need
- development of a professional development & training programme appropriate to your office, together with an implementation plan
- an evaluative review of your existing strategy, programmes or other activities
- the design of education and training programmes, either from our existing resources or specially designed and customised, which you can present using your own staff as presenters
- a train-the-trainers programme especially adapted or designed for your office
- ongoing 'maintenance' and support for your programme as it develops.
We are very happy to work with or alongside your staff with training responsibilities.
The Alliance's Principal Consultant is its inaugural Director, Christopher Roper, who was the Director of Legal Education at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, a large Australian commercial law firm, for a number of years. He was responsible for all stages of the conception, planning, design and implementation of its professional development programme. More recently, he has assisted Zaid Ibrahim & Co., a rapidly expanding Malaysian law firm, with the design and implementation of its professional development programme.
We can also draw on the extensive resources of the three colleges of the Alliance for programmes, materials, teachers and, of course, ideas.
The College of Law, Sydney, Australia, has cooperative arrangements with a number of large Australian law firms to provide the Professional Program for its young recruits. Through this work we have a good understanding of the needs of commercial law firms working in the international arena.
International development projects
The College of Law Alliance is also available to undertake various aspects of international development projects for governments or development agency-funded institutions. We have experience of needs identification missions, planning and design missions and other technical assistance.
Key personnel in the three Colleges have already undertaken a wide range of development work in the legal training area in Asian, Indian sub-continent and eastern European countries. Countries in which they have worked are:
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Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Britain
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
East Timor
Hong Kong
India
Kazakstan |
Malaysia
Nepal
New Zealand
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Russia
Solomon Islands
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
Vietnam |
Examples of work we have done
Training needs analysis
- Attorney General of Cyprus
continuing education system
- New Zealand Council of Legal Education & New Zealand Law Society
coordinated education and training programme in legal professional ethics
- Mekong Region Law Center
training programme in business law and related areas in the Mekong Region.
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
training programme for the courts, procuracy and Office of the National Assembly
- New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
training programme for the East Timor judiciary
- Zaid Ibrahim & Co
professional development programme for all lawyers in the firm
Curriculum and programme design
- Kiev Mohyla Academy of programmes
specialist and masters programmes
- Russian Judicial Academy
judicial training programme
- Turkish defence lawyers and public prosecutors
human rights continuing education programmes
- Pakistan College of Law
undergraduate and continuing education programmes
- School of Law, Bond University
new practical legal training course
- AusAID
- programmes on commercial law (trade law and banking regulation) for the Mekong Region Law Center
- professional development programme for the Papua New Guinea Attorney General's Department
- Mallesons Stephen Jaques
comprehensive in-house education and training programmes
Review of institutions and educational programmes
- Attorney General of Trinidad
new legal practice course
- Institute of Professional Legal Studies, New Zealand
comprehensive review of its practical training programme
- Legal Training Institute, Papua New Guinea
all aspects of its practical training programme
- Law Society of New South Wales
various aspects of the its Specialists Accreditation Program
- University of Sydney, Faculty of Law
review of its postgraduate programmes
- Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia
re-visioning of its Professional Legal Training Course
Strategic analysis and planning
- AusAID
part of the project design team for stages 1 and 2 of the Cambodian Criminal Justice Assistance Project
- Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia
re-visioning of its Professional Legal Training Course
Our personnel have undertaken work for:
- ACIL Australia Pty Ltd
- Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
- The British Council (Argentina, India, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey)*
- CLE Society of British Columbia
- United Kingdom Department for International Development
- Freehill Hollingdale & Page
- Hassall & Associates International Pty Ltd
- Kidston International Pty Ltd
- Law Society of Hong Kong
- Law Society of New South Wales
- Law Society of South Australia
- Legal Profession Education & Admission Council, South Australia
- Malaysian Bar Council
- Mallesons Stephen Jaques
- Mekong Region Law Center
- New South Wales Bar Association
- New Zealand Council of Legal Education
- New Zealand Law Society
- New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
- Papua New Guinea Legal Training Institute
- Sagric International Pty Ltd
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- University of Sydney, Faculty of Law
- Zaid Ibrahim & Co.
*Through the British Council links have been forged with a number of institutions such as the Pakistan College of Law, the Russian Judicial Academy and the Nepal Bar Association.
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