Course Title: Innovative Legal Practice

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Innovative Legal Practice

Credit Points: 12.00

Flexible Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

LAW2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

660H Graduate School of Business and Law

Internet

JulDec2019 (All)

LAW2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

660H Graduate School of Business and Law

Internet

JanJun2020 (All)

LAW2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

660H Graduate School of Business and Law

Internet

JulDec2020 (All)

LAW2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

660H Graduate School of Business and Law

Internet

JanJun2021 (All)

LAW2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

660H Graduate School of Business and Law

Internet

JulDec2021 (All)

LAW2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

660H Graduate School of Business and Law

Internet

JanJun2022 (All)

LAW2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

660H Graduate School of Business and Law

Internet

JanJun2023 (All)

LAW2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

660H Graduate School of Business and Law

Internet

JulDec2023 (All)

Course Coordinator: Marta Poblet Balcell

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 (3) 99250134

Course Coordinator Email: marta.pobletbalcell@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Melbourne Campus

Course Coordinator Availability: By email


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

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Course Description

In this course, you will apply creative, strategic and customer-centric theories and approaches to formulate innovative solutions to legal and business/organisational problems. You will recognise the opportunities and limitations of emerging technologies and advocate their use in specific situations to improve functionality, quality and efficiency for clients and stakeholders. You will adopt an innovation mindset and undertake the process of customer discovery to uncover the challenges that clients and stakeholders of legal services commonly face, and identify emerging technology solutions that address these needs. The preparation of a recommendation report will advise senior management and stakeholders of the benefits, costs and risks associated with the proposed technology solution while outlining the required delivery and implementation process.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

CLO1 Evaluate legal business or organisational functions to identify innovative opportunities for emerging technologies to improve productivity and functionality.

CLO2 Design innovative and ethical emerging technology solutions for legal business and organisations by using human-centered design approaches and tools.

CLO3 Formulate technological solutions and associated policies to enhance organisational processes or client services that effectively balance risk, costs, and benefits.


Overview of Learning Activities

This course uses highly structured learning activities to guide your learning process and prepare you for your assessments. The activities are a combination of individual, peer-supported and facilitator-guided activities, and where possible project-led, with opportunities for feedback throughout. 

Authentic and industry-relevant learning is critical to this course and you will be encouraged to critically compare and contrast what is happening in your context and in industry, and to use your insights.

Social learning is another important component and you are expected to participate in class and group activities, share drafts of work and resources and give and receive peer feedback. You will be expected to work efficiently and effectively with others to achieve outcomes greater than those that you might have achieved alone. 

The learning activities enable you to understand course learning resources and apply that learning to improve your own practice, for example by producing real-world artefacts and engaging in scenarios and case studies. 

This course will be delivered online via RMIT Online (in-house).


Overview of Learning Resources

Each learning activity contains the core resources, such as videos, podcasts, readings, templates, articles, industry tools and/or communities that you need to complete that activity, or links to those resources. 

Additional learning resources designed into the course, will be clearly marked as supplemental. If your course teaching team finds additional resources during course delivery which they think can support or be of interest to the class cohort, these will be made available as required during the teaching period. 

In your class environment, besides your learning activities you will also find 

  • All assessment briefs 
  • A course information page with a study schedule, 
  • Various communication tools to facilitate collaboration with your peers and facilitators, and to share information 

Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities. Visit the RMIT library website for further details. Assistance is available online via our chat and email services, face to face at our campus libraries or via the telephone on (03) 9925 2020.


Overview of Assessment

The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows:

Assessment Task 1: 30% 
Linked CLOs: 1

Assessment Task 2: 30% 
Linked CLOs: 2, 3

Assessment Task 3: 40% 
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3