Also ahead of this we’d be interested to know what’s happened to their plans to launch in the UK?
Australian Lawyers weekly reports….Hundreds of scholarships will be offered to support training towards graduate certificates in various legal disciplines, as part of a new pandemic-inspired package from The College of Law.
The College of Law (COL) on Monday launched a multimillion-dollar package to support the legal profession in Australia and New Zealand as it recovers from the economic and professional impacts of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking exclusively to Lawyers Weekly, COL outlined three primary components to its relief package: up to 300 scholarships to support training toward a graduate certificate in applied law within any of the college’s range of 11 specialist practice areas; up to 100 scholarships to support training towards a graduate certificate in legal business or a graduate certificate in legal operations within the college’s legal business management program; and access without fee to an extensive range of programs offered by the Centre for Legal Innovation, including complimentary membership of the Legalpreneurs Lab.
The package will be funded by an initial tranche of $3 million, but further tranches “are anticipated”.
COL has been thinking “for some time” about how best it can support the profession in the wake of the pandemic, CEO and principal Neville Carter told Lawyers Weekly.
“We know that many firms and practices have seen a decline in business and that many legal professionals have lost their jobs. The college exists to support lawyers and other legal professionals into and through their careers and we therefore have enormous sympathy for our colleagues who are coming to grips with challenges like these,” he said.
