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Course overview
If you have a law degree or GDL and wish to train as a solicitor, we offer three options including an LPC MSc in Law, Business and Management to make you business ready.
- Qualify with an LPC, with the option to gain an MSc or LLM at no extra cost
- Develop your commercial awareness, critical thinking and the necessary professional skills to prepare you for the challenges of being a solicitor
- Tailor your course to your specialist areas of interest through a wide choice of elective subjects
- Study your LPC with a Masters and you could be eligible for a postgraduate student loan
With a clear focus on your future employability, we are more confident than ever in your success and offer our LPC Employment Promise. Get a job in nine months, or we’ll give you 100% of your fees back: 50% of your fees as cashback plus 50% of your fees as credit towards any further courses.
95% of our 2017/18 full-time, UK, LPC graduates have secured work or further study within fifteen months of successfully completing this course, based on Graduate Outcomes data.
USP’s
- 1st for Overall Student Satisfaction – We have been ranked first amongst universities for overall student satisfaction in England in the 2020 National Student Survey.
- We’ve trained more practising lawyers than anyone else in the UK, and our expert careers service offers students the opportunity to get real-world experience from the start.
- Our professionally focused degrees are designed and taught by experts in the fields of law, criminology, and police, who will support you in your ambition
Campus locations
Study method
- In-class
- Blended
- Online
Locations
- England
- Birmingham
- London
- Bloomsbury
- Moorgate
- Bristol
- Chester
- Exeter
- Guildford
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Newcastle
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Reading
- Sheffield
- Southampton
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Duration study load
- 22 months
Entry requirements
To be eligible to take up your place on our LPC, you must comply with the requirements for commencing a Legal Practice Course (LPC) set out by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) – see below. Failure to comply with these eligibility requirements means that the University will have no option but to cancel your place on the course.
If you are a non-EEA student you will also require a visa covering the full duration of your course – see Visa requirements below.
University of Law LPC selection criteria
- Academic profile and achievement, generally a minimum of an actual or predicted second class honours law degree or GDL/CPE/MA Law*
- A sufficient command of the English language to successfully complete the course – see English language requirements below
- Any special circumstances revealed in your application
Academic or other references
*This requirement is met by either: A) The award of a Qualifying Law Degree. Your law degree must meet certain academic standards in order to qualify. This must include having adequately passed assessments in the seven Foundations of Legal Knowledge – Public Law, Obligations I (Contract), Obligations II (Tort), Criminal Law, Land Law, Equity & Trusts and Law of the European Union. Further guidance on what is a Qualifying Law Degree; or B) Passing a Common Professional Examination (CPE)/Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)/MA Law and being awarded a Graduate Diploma in Law, MA Law, or similar such as CILEX.
The University of Law fully complies with equal opportunities legislation and actively encourages diversity within the legal profession. Our admissions process acts fairly and aims to enable students to make the best use of their talents. You are encouraged to tell us about any special requirements at the earliest opportunity. This will allow us to discuss how we may go about meeting your requirements.
You must fulfil all eligibility requirements by the start of the course – failure to do so may result in you being prevented from joining the course.
Future trainee Solicitors
The SRA has recently consulted on a number of proposed changes to its regulations, including removing the requirement for students to apply for student enrolment and approval of their academic stage of training prior to commencing the LPC.
If you have been offered a training contract, you need to make sure the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has checked your “character and suitability” to be a solicitor.
This may take at least six months to complete if you have:
- Committed certain criminal offences
- Been found guilty of an academic offence
- Had serious financial issues (such as bankruptcy, Individual Voluntary Arrangements or County Court Judgments)
- Been subject to adverse regulatory findings
- Demonstrated any other behaviour that we would not expect of a solicitor (for example behaviour that was dishonest, violent or discriminatory)
Please take a look at the SRA Suitability Test 2011 for more information and fill in the eligibility application if you need to tell them about any issues.
If you have nothing to tell the SRA, you can inform them of this when you and your employer let them know your training is due to start.
Should the SRA’s decision not be confirmed prior to the LPC start date, you can continue with the course but do so at your own financial risk.
Accreditation of prior learning
If you have previously studied a BVC or BPTC, you may be exempt from certain elements of the LPC.
English language requirements
If you have completed a degree outside the UK and you do not come from a ‘majority English speaking country’, please provide a certified copy of one of the approved English Language Tests.
Course features
- Career-focused: develop commercial awareness, critical thinking and the professional skills that legal employers are looking for
- Gain an MSc in Law, Business and Management or LLM in Professional Legal Practice at no extra cost
- Study your LPC with a Masters Degree and you could be eligible for a postgraduate student loan
- Tailor your course to your specialist areas of interest through a wide choice of elective subjects
- Flexible study – choose to study at one of our locations nationwide with the choice of full-time, part-time, day, evening and weekend courses, as well as our online i-LLM LPC
- Access award-winning careers support to help you with your training contract applications with over 3,000 pro bono opportunities as soon as you accept your place
Assessment
Assessed through a range of assessments. Including oral assessments in Interviewing and Advocacy, open book and closed book exams.
If you choose to study your LPC with a Master’s you will also be assessed with a written report and an oral style assessment.
Subjects
- Introduction to Professional Practice (Professional conduct within this module carries 15 credits)
- Business Law and Practice Knowledge and Skills (30 credits)
- Dispute Resolution Knowledge and Skills, including Criminal Litigation (30 credits)
- Real Estate Knowledge and Skills (30 credits)
Choose three*
- Advanced Criminal
- Advanced Real Estate
- Banking and Debt Finance
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Commercial Law
- Competition Law
- Employment Law
- Family Law
- Immigration
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
- Private Client
- Public Companies
*Availability subject to demand, timetabling and location
About The University of Law
We aim to prepare you for a professional career from Day One, with a wide range of study options to meet your needs. Explore our undergraduate degrees with optional foundation years, or our online and accelerated postgraduate programmes.
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Why study at The University of Law
- We're ranked first for overall student satisfaction among universities in England (2020 National Student Survey).
- We’ve trained more practising lawyers than anyone else in the UK, and our expert career services team offers students the opportunity to get real-world experience from the start.
- Our professionally-focused degrees are designed and taught by experts in the fields of law, criminology and policing.