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Benefits of study at the institute

Here are some reasons why you might want to do your Professional Legal Studies Course with the Institute:

• The Institute has top instructors, drawn from experienced New Zealand practitioners who are vitally interested in your success on the course. Read more at Our teaching staff and What our trainees say .
• More than 10,000 successful graduates have completed the Institute’s course over the past 20+ years.
• The Institute offers best quality training in oral skills – a confidence booster for many and critical for budding litigators. Read more
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  All lawyers require effective oral communication skills, whether as advocates before the courts or other tribunals, as agents for clients they represent in commercial and general negotiation, or as presenters of information and/or argument to their clients and others.
  
  The Institute recognises that many (if not all) of those who come on the course feel some degree of nervousness about being required to speak in public.
  
  The Institute’s course provides opportunity for all to develop and practise these oral skills in a relaxed supportive environment where understanding and confidence are nurtured.
  
  By the end of the course, trainees will have conducted two trials as sole advocate for one side, and several negotiations for settlement of civil disputes. Moreover, they will have acquired confidence in speaking in public. Once gained, this is an asset for life.
  
  
• The Institute offers best quality training in problem solving skills – skills used by commercial lawyers and litigators alike. Read more
  
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  All lawyers require effective analytical skills – whether they are involved in litigation practice or commercial practice. Every day, they are called upon to analyse mixed issues of law and fact, and provide sound advice as to their clients’ rights and obligations, and how their clients might best proceed in the circumstances.
  
  The Institute’s course provides opportunity to develop and practise these analytical and problem solving skills in both litigation and commercial law contexts.
  
  In the litigation context, trainees learn how to analyse the elements of both civil claims and criminal charges and prepare documents and strategies for the conduct of cases.
  
  In the commercial context, trainees learn how to unravel a complex multi-party, multi-document, multi-issue scenario, to identify the various parties’ rights and obligations. The documents and relationships examined typify the building blocks of many commercial transactions, and the lessons learned are excellent preparation for commercial practice.
  
  
• The Institute offers seamless transferability between its Online course and its Onsite course if your circumstances change and you need to switch from one to the other.
• The Institute offers choice of 5 locations for face-to-face components of the course.
• The Institute offers training in groups with the lowest ratio of trainees to each instructor – increasing the personal support and feedback that you receive
• Both forms of the Institute’s course are approved for loans and allowances with Studylink.