College Diploma - Law Clerk (Accelerated)

The Law Clerk (Accelerated) diploma delivers the law clerk curriculum in nine months of continuous study, for applicants who already hold a related credential.

Content matches the standard program — real estate conveyancing and title searching, corporate law and minute books, civil litigation documentation and court filing, wills and estates, family law documentation, legal research and writing, legal accounting and trust rules, and law office technology — compressed into a continuous schedule with field placement.

Weigh the economics carefully. At $25,166 this costs substantially more than the twelve-month version at $17,234, because the full program cost is compressed into a shorter period. And under current rules a shorter program means a shorter Post-Graduation Work Permit — nine months is only just above the eight-month PGWP minimum. For most international students the standard program is the better value and the better permit position.

The field placement is a graded part of the program, so you finish with documented Canadian experience and a referee rather than only a transcript.

Newnham is Seneca’s largest campus, on Finch Avenue East in North York, with its own residence, library, athletic centre and specialised technical labs. It sits on the TTC network with subway connections, and carries the bulk of Seneca’s business, technology and engineering catalogue — which means the widest range of student clubs, services and peers of any Seneca site.

Seneca Polytechnic — formerly Seneca College — is one of Ontario’s largest public colleges and a Designated Learning Institution. Newnham is its biggest campus, on Finch Avenue East in North York, and carries the bulk of Seneca’s business, technology, engineering technology, aviation and applied science catalogue. It has its own residence, a large library and athletic centre, and sits on the TTC network with connections to the subway.

Its field maps to CIP 22.0302 (Legal assistant/paralegal). Important: this is a college credential rather than a degree, so it is not exempt from the November 2024 PGWP field-of-study restriction — eligibility depends on this CIP field appearing on IRCC’s eligible list when you apply. Seneca publishes a PGWP-eligible program list; check it, and confirm with an Apply Study Visa counsellor before committing. IRCC makes the final decision.