Legal Practice is an essential guide for Law Students, PLT Students and first year lawyers who are about to set forth on their journey to pursue legal practice. This essential guide covers all of the relevant and practical topics in legal practice and provides some handy hints and very useful precedents used in the day to day practice of law. From setting up files, taking file notes to appearing in court, the book is a hands-on practical guide that is easy to use and understand. It will become an essential reference in your resource collection and guide through your legal practice journey.
Features
• A step-by -step guide with practical examples for easy understanding
• Handy hints
• Checklists
Related Titles
• Cobrett-Jarvis & Grigg, Effective Legal Writing: A Practical Guide, 3rd ed, 2021
• Esparraga, Ethical Legal Practice and Professional Conduct, 2019
John Melia BA Hons, LLB, Grad Dip. Applied Law has been a practising Solicitor in Melbourne for twenty years. He began as a law clerk at Mills Oakley Lawyers and worked to Associate level following admission in 2002. He worked as a panel Solicitor in Workers Compensation for 6 years, and then moved into private practice working for a small boutique practice.
In 2009 he commenced Melia Lawyers, a boutique general practice, which he still operates today. He has extensive practice in the areas of workers compensation, conveyancing, wills and estates, criminal law, family law, general litigation, and commercial agreements. He also appears in all jurisdictions in Victoria.
He was qualified as a Nationally Accredited Mediator in 2020 and is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the College of Law.
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