Law Clerk Advanced (Co-op option available)

Program Overview

As the only one of its kind in Ontario, the Law Clerk Advanced program will help you gain experience in both foundational areas of law such as corporate, litigation, family and real estate, as well as specialized areas such as securities, intellectual property, employment and immigration law to prepare you for a rewarding and successful career. Whether you want to be a law clerk in a law office, a corporate legal department or a government agency, you’ll have the skills needed for a successful career. The demand for graduates has never been greater with over 50% of students routinely securing full-time employment before classes even finish!

Career Focused

Field Placement

Legal Studies

Admission Requirements

Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or Mature Student Status
Grade 12 English (C or U)

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Intakes and Availability

Date	Domestic Availability	International Availability
September 2020	Open	Open

Tuition

Year one domestic: $2,722 (CDN)
Year one international: $13,322 (CDN)

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Co-operative Education (co-op)

The best way to succeed in your field is to immerse yourself in it! Co-op is an excellent way to build your professional network, explore career paths and apply in-class teachings to real work situations. Co-op is a model of education that integrates academic learning with workplace learning in fields relevant to our students’ academic and personal goals. Similar to an academic course, work terms are a mandatory component to this form of experiential learning.

Semester 1 Courses

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Career Options

WHAT YOU COULD BE:

Law Clerk
Legal Assistant
Corporate Services Assistant
Litigation Support Professional
Legal Support Services Assistant
Securities Clerk
eDiscovery Clerk
Leasing Clerk
Contracts & Risk Management Clerk

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Program Details

As Ontario’s only Law Clerk Advanced program, this program will provide you with opportunities to develop all of the legal, technical, and essential employment skills necessary to secure full-time employment and launch an exciting legal career. Experiential learning is embedded seamlessly into courses and complemented by over 300-hours of on-the-job training to ensure that graduates are confident and job-ready.

Legal course highlights:

Strong, consistent employment rates upon graduation – with more jobs than people to fill them, the demand for legal support professionals has never been greater
Career focused, on-campus networking event with employers who actively recruit graduating students
Specialized areas of law including criminal, municipal land planning, insurance, employment, immigration, securities and intellectual property law

The skills and knowledge developed in this program give graduates the ability to follow a broad career path in law and beyond.

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Admission Requirements

Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or Mature Student Status
Grade 12 English (C or U)

Courses

Courses and course descriptions are subject to change.

Costs

YEAR ONE FEES	Domestic	International
Tuition	$2,722	$13,322
Compulsory Ancillary	$1,337	$1,812
Program Incidental	$38	$38
Total Fees:	$4,097	$15,172

Please note: fees are based on the 2019-2020 academic year and do not include textbooks. For more information please see Other fees to consider.

Career Options

WHAT YOU COULD BE:

Law Clerk
Legal Assistant
Corporate Services Assistant
Litigation Support Professional
Legal Support Services Assistant
Securities Clerk
eDiscovery Clerk
Leasing Clerk
Contracts & Risk Management Clerk

WHERE YOU COULD WORK:

Law firms
Corporate legal departments
Provincial and federal government ministries and agencies
Insurance companies
Financial institutions
Municipalities

Field Placement

Your learning experience will be complemented by a 70-hour field placement in your fourth semester and a flexible 280-hour placement that can be completed in the spring/summer or during your fifth and sixth semesters providing you with the skills, confidence and ability to compete for the best jobs with the best firms and organizations.
Please note: there are pre-placement requirements for the field placement component of this program.

Program Transfer, Degree Completion and Additional Credentials

Qualified graduates can go on to take Durham College’s programs in:

Durham College also offers degree completion opportunities with a number of Canadian and international institutions. Sample diploma-to-degree opportunities include:

Please visit our pathways page to learn more about how you can transfer your credits towards a degree.

Co-operative education (co-op)

Students in the Law Clerk – Advanced Advanced Diploma program will be invited to apply to the co-op option during their first academic semester. Entrance to the co-op option is limited and the processes for securing a work term are competitive. Students who qualify for co-op will be eligible to complete two four-month, paid work terms totalling 840 hours. Work terms are scheduled between semesters two and three and four and five of the program.

Supports are available through the Co-op office to assist students with securing their work terms. In addition, the Co-op office is in contact with co-op students and their employers during the work terms to help with any questions.

Program Sequence

SEPTEMBER INTAKE:

	Fall (September to December)	Winter (January to April)	Summer (May to August)
Year 1	Academic semester 1	Academic semester 2	Co-op work term 1
Year 2	Academic semester 3	Academic semester 4	Co-op work term 2
Year 3	Academic semester 5	Academic semester 6

Courses

CO-OP OPTION

SEMESTER 1

SEMESTER 2

Co-op work Term 1

Co-op Work Term 1 (LCAC 1000)

The co-op work term will provide students with work experience in a legal environment. The co-op work term expands students’ learning environment to real work settings where they will be challenged to apply their academic knowledge and then return to campus with a deepened understanding of industry demands and required skills.

SEMESTER 3

SEMESTER 4

Co-op Work Term 2

Co-op Work Term 2 (LCAC 2000)

Building on their first work term, this co-op work term will provide students with work experience in a legal environment. The co-op work term expands students’ learning environment to real work settings where they will be challenged to apply their academic knowledge and then return to campus with a deepened understanding of industry demands and required skills.

SEMESTER 5

SEMESTER 6

Courses and course descriptions are subject to change.

CO-OP ADMINISTRATIVE FEE

Once transferred to the co-op option of a program, students will have a co-op administrative fee of $475 per work term assessed to their accounts. The administrative fee goes to support the broad array of support services provided to co-op students. These services are dedicated to supporting student success.

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Law Clerk Advanced (Co-op option available)

Program Overview

Admission Requirements

Intakes and Availability

Tuition

Co-operative Education (co-op)

Semester 1 Courses

Career Options

WHAT YOU COULD BE:

Program Details

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Admission Requirements

Courses

Semester 1

Semester 2

Semester 3

Semester 4

Semester 5

Semester 6

Costs

Career Options

WHAT YOU COULD BE:

WHERE YOU COULD WORK:

Field Placement

Program Transfer, Degree Completion and Additional Credentials

Co-operative education (co-op)

Program Sequence

SEPTEMBER INTAKE:

Courses

CO-OP OPTION

SEMESTER 1

SEMESTER 2

Co-op work Term 1

SEMESTER 3

SEMESTER 4

Co-op Work Term 2

SEMESTER 5

SEMESTER 6

CO-OP ADMINISTRATIVE FEE

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Helpful Resources

College guide September 2020 [PDF]

College guide September 2020 [Interactive]

Graduate Employment Report [PDF]

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