Leo Cussen Centre for Law

Leo Cussen Institute trading as Leo Cussen Centre for Law was established by an Act of the Victorian Parliament in 1972.

For more than twenty years, the Institute has provided Practical Legal Training to law students entering the legal profession. The Practical Training Course (Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice) is recognised by the legal profession as providing comprehensive and excellent training for law graduates leading to their entry to the legal profession as Australian Attorneys. The program is offered in both online and onsite (facetoface ) delivery modes. Visiting instructors, exceptionally experienced in a wide variety of legal clinic, share their knowledge and experience. Full time staff tutors encourage, support, and assess the grad's practise of the law at every step up the conducting of records that are simulated. Graduates undergo the realities of legal practice while being trained in a healthful, risk free, and secure environment.