Specialist Certificate in Legal Leadership

This unique qualification is a graduate leadership development program tailored for mid-career legal professionals. It comprises specific leadership and management capability-building subjects for those working in legal organisations. The program design is highly flexible, allowing participants considerable autonomy to customise study for their development needs.

The program offers learning opportunities for legal professionals seeking to extend their business, communication, managerial and leadership skills and knowledge. Subjects are offered intensively in an executive education format to assist those with competing time commitments.

Students must complete 25 credit points of study from the prescribed list of subjects.

On completion of this course, graduates will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the changing knowledge base in legal leadership and management;
• Identify and evaluate the knowledge and capabilities required for effective and ethical legal leadership;
• Understand the various leadership theories, models and approaches and how they impact upon employees, organisational performance and ethics;
• Reflect on their own personal legal leadership capabilities in their own organisational context;
• Apply new skills and knowledge in the workplace.

Applications are accepted throughout the year.