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LLM

Legal Practice

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

1 Year

Start

September 2023

Delivery

Campus Taught

Our combined LLM and LPC course is your chance to study a professional qualification as part of the vocational stage of training necessary to become admitted as a solicitor.

The aims of the course are to prepare you for work-based learning and provide you with a general foundation for practice.

You’ll gain skills in legal interviews, research, writing, drafting and advocacy and show competency in the areas of professional conduct and regulation, accounts, financial services and markets, taxation and human rights.

As an LLM Law student you’ll be able to attend cJAM, our alternative careers fair, where you get face-to-face time with up to 30 successful industry professionals with work placement opportunities.

You’ll also be able to take advantage of opportunities to participate in the School’s Pro Bono Law Clinic and Mediation Clinic giving you a ‘real life’ insight in to legal practice.

This award is usually undertaken and completed in two years, but can take up to 3 years depending upon the number of modules you wish to take in each year.

Why study with us

You’ll study in a highly practical learning environment, designed to prepare you for real-life legal situations, and get excellent individual support to maximise your potential and career aspirations.
You’ll cover an introductory section, all core practice areas and three electives and there’s a strong emphasis on enhancing your commercial awareness and personal and professional development, to prepare you for employment within the legal profession.
You’ll acquire transferable skills such as team working, numeracy, communication, presentation, IT, critical thinking and problem-solving.

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What you'll do

The School’s teaching environment is designed to stimulate learning and the course is delivered through a series of interactive large and small group sessions, where the focus is on student centred learning.
At cJAM you’ll hear from keynote industry speakers, who’ll share their personal career journey, and you’ll benefit from informal networking opportunities and a chance to pitch for a placement.
You’ll be able to use our dedicated moot court room which contains a mock-up of a real court room with latest audio-visual technology.

Module overview

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Accreditations

This course is validated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the regulatory body for solicitors in England and Wales. They set the Principles and a Code of Conduct that professionals have to abide by in order to provide legal services.

Future careers

As a graduate of our LLM in Legal Practice you’ll be highly valued for your aptitude and skills which’ll help you get a graduate level job or professional training contract.

Some of our eminent alumni include judges, Queen’s Counsel, barristers and solicitors across the UK, Europe and around the world. They also include CEOs, business leaders and industrialists, entrepreneurs and business owners, senior public servants such as civil servants, politicians, senior police and local government officers. And others hold senior academic and researcher roles and are authors of many academic works. Graduates also work in the voluntary sector and act as board representatives and trustees.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£10500 per year

Part-time£1167 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£10500 per year

2023/24

Full-time£10,500 per year

Part-time£1,167 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£15,500 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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Core practice areas and elective subjects are assessed by both, with and without, unseen open book application-based examinations. The legal skills elements are assessed as appropriate, for instance a role-play interview, district judge appointment.

The majority of small group teaching sessions take place in the impressive Harris Building, the home of our School. For large group teaching, we make use of the many modern lecture theatres across campus all of which have state-of-the-art audio-visual support and presentation facilities.

There are a number of dedicated skills development rooms with recording and play back facilities within the School. There’s a resource room for the use of LPC students, equipped with IT facilities and a range of practitioner and academic texts.

The Library contains a dedicated Law Library and our extensive e-law library facility gives you access to many legal and academic and practitioner sources on campus and remotely.

From September 2021, the way in which solicitors qualify is changing. The current route which sees students undertake a Qualifying Law Degree, plus the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and a Period of Recognised Training is being replaced with the Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE).

The SQE will be divided into two assessments; SQE 1 and SQE 2. SQE 1 will comprise of two 180 questions examinations, which will test applicant’s knowledge and understanding of the subjects included within the Functioning Legal Knowledge. SQE 2 will comprise of skills-based assessments, which will test applicant’s competence to deal with tasks a new qualified solicitor may undertake. In addition to the SQE assessments, applicants will need to undertake a period of Qualifying Work Experience and also pass a character and suitability test before they can be admitted to the profession.

Both SQE assessments will be run centrally and the cost to sit these assessments currently stands around £3,000 - £4,500 for both SQE 1 and 2. This cost is solely to sit the assessments and does not include any training or preparation.

The School of Justice will continue to provide high quality postgraduate, professional legal education in the form of SQE ‘facing’, ‘focussed’ programmes which are currently under development. In the interim, for students who commenced on either an LLB undergraduate degree or GDL prior to September 2021, the LPC will remain a valid route to qualification. The School of Justice will continue to recruit onto the LLM in Legal Practice for the foreseeable future [or change as appropriate].

Further information on the SQE can be found at https://www.sra.org.uk/ together with decision trees to help students who can qualify under either regime.

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This course is based in the School of Justice located in the Faculty of Business and Justice

For information on possible changes to course information, see our essential and important course information

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