Your PLT Professional Placement

Placements carried out as part of the Leo Cussen PLT are 15 days (105 hours) in all states except WA where they are 20 days (140 hours) in length. Graduates must successfully complete the Placement in order to complete the PLT and to be eligible

to apply for admission to the legal profession. Graduates must ensure that they carry out at least two days (or four half-days) of work experience per week during the Placement period.

Depending on your circumstances and availability we can assist you to find an arrangement that works for you.

Before the course census date, Graduates must notify Leo Cussen whether they wish to organise their own Placement, or have their Placement organised by Leo Cussen.

Graduates who elect to organise their own placement must seek approval from Leo Cussen by submitting a Placement Arrangement Form prior to commencing the Placement. If you need assistance win self-organising a placement, our placement and careers team are on hand to help.

Graduates who elect to have their Placement organised by Leo Cussen must agree to the terms and conditions of that service.

All Leo Cussen organised placements run full-time at the end of your course. If you wish to complete a self-organised placement this can be part-time and we will be available throughout your course to help and advise you on this.

There are specific date periods during which placements are available. Placement periods can be found on the Program Dates & Fees page of

the Leo Cussen website, or you will be notified of the placement period options prior to census date.

You must choose a placement period that commences after the conclusion of your PLT course; you cannot choose a placement period

that falls prior to, or during, your PLT course. We endeavour to offer placement periods that begin no more than 4 weeks after the

conclusion of your coursework.

Leo Cussen will find you a placement within the metropolitan area of the Australian capital city of your choice. You can ask Leo Cussen to

also consider placements outside of Australian capital cities (i.e.regional Australia), but we cannot guarantee this. You will be given

the opportunity to provide your location preferences which we will consider.

Graduates are supervised by a person who:

1. has at least three years of post-admission experience practising law; and
2. is admitted to the legal profession; and
3. holds a current practising certificate; and
4. is currently practising law; and
5. is currently of good standing in the legal profession.
6. b) Alternatively, a Supervisor may be a judge or magistrate of an Australian court, or member of an Australian tribunal.

There is a fee payable for Leo Cussen to source a placement for you

(‘placement fee’). Fee information can be found on the Program Dates

& Fees page of the Leo Cussen website.

The placement fee can be put on FEE-HELP for eligible students who choose this option prior to the census date for their course intake.

If you initially elected to have your placement sourced by Leo Cussen, and now wish to source your own, the placement fee is

non-refundable.

If you initially elected to source your own placement, and now wish to have it sourced by Leo Cussen, we cannot guarantee to

find you a placement however we will do our best to assist you with options.  If it is determined that we can source you a

placement, you will need to pay the placement fee.