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Graduate competencies

The Institute provides a unique competency-based training programme that prepares trainees for legal practice.

It is designed to equip trainees with the skills and knowledge required for practice in New Zealand, irrespective of the area of law in which they will be engaged.

Its focus is the development of transferable skills , rather than transactional knowledge.

During the course, trainees undertake a range of exercises and activities that develop their skills in general practice, litigation practice, and professional development.

On graduation, trainees have generic transferable skills and some transactional contextualising for those skills. They will be ready for supervised training in client transactions, and should be able to transfer the skills learnt to those transactions.
Employers and trainees should discuss the way in which trainees can apply the skills learnt on the IPLS course to transactions they are asked to perform in the course of their employment.

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The skills taught
The transactions touched on or covered
The Graduate Profile

The Graduate Profile is issued to trainees on graduation. It is intended to accompany the graduate’s assessment record. It provides a high level summary of the skills that are taught and assessed, an explanation of grades referred to in the assessment record and other relevant information.