Overview Accelerate your law career with a Juris Doctor. La Trobe’s Juris Doctor is for students that hold a bachelor degree and are looking to start a career in law. It is also for those who seek to gain the qualifications to practice law in Australia. You’ll benefit from small class sizes, personalized attention, simulated legal exercises and practical experience with real clients. Guide your career in the direction you want with electives in law and technology, commercial law, cyber law, international law, health law and human rights law. Our Juris Doctor has strong connections to the social justice landscape and offers a suite of electives focused on legal disruption, innovation and entrepreneurship. More reasons to study a Juris Doctor at La Trobe: The program is run at our state-of-the-art campus in Melbourne’s CBD Complete your degree in less than three years with summer and winter intensive subjects. Benefit from La Trobe’s practicing lecturers and reputation as a leading law school in Australia Take advantage of our hands-on work placement opportunities in community legal centres, private law firms, government departments and NGOs. Attend professional development and industry networking events. La Trobe’s Juris Doctor delivers the academic requirements you need to apply for admission to practice Law in Victoria. The course also gives you the necessary foundations to practice law internationally. Career outcomes Graduates of La Trobe’s Juris Doctor will be well placed to find work in professional legal practice as solicitors, in-house counsel, or barristers. Other career opportunities include roles as policy officers, strategic advisers, or intelligence analysts for the corporate and government sectors. Over the next five years, there are expected to be 25,000 to 50,000 job openings for legal professionals in Australia. Professional recognition All La Trobe University Bachelor of Laws and Juris Doctor Law courses include the subjects required by the Victorian Legal Admissions Board to qualify for admission to the legal profession in Victoria as an Australian lawyer. Admission to the legal profession by the Supreme Court of Victoria also requires the completion of practical legal training either by a 12-month period of Supervised Legal Training or by completing an approved practical legal training course (for example, at the Leo Cussen Institute or The College of Law). Candidates for admission to practice must also satisfy the Admissions Board that they are a fit and proper person to be admitted to practice. International graduates would need the relevant visa to complete a supervised workplace traineeship in Australia. You're advised to obtain assurance of recognition of the course by relevant professional bodies in your preferred country of practice.