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Study Details: LPC FT, PT
The Legal Practice Course (LPC) gives you the essential training you need to become a qualified solicitor. It’s your bridge between the academic world and professional life in a law firm, giving you the legal knowledge and skills to thrive in today’s market.
Our LPC means business. It’s much more than a qualification; it’s a grounding in the key skills you will need to succeed. We’ll equip you with more than just legal knowledge – we focus on the all-round legal skills and commercial awareness employers are seeking. It’s no coincidence that BPP’s LPC is the first choice of many leading law firms and over 25 exclusively send their trainees to us.
By choosing to study your LPC with BPP, you’ll have the best possible start to your legal career.
Key Information
•Study alongside the best – 26 of the UKs leading law firms send their trainees to complete their LPC at BPP
•Enhance your employability and skills with activities delivered by our specialist careers service
•Specialise through our free High Street Extra programme
•Put the theory to the test and build your CV through our award-winning pro bono centre
•Access excellent e-learning materials and high quality teaching both inside and outside the classroom
•Positive growth in the legal industry with Training Contract vacancies increasing by 11.6% year on year
•Broaden your learning from tutors who bring experience of working in practice
•Reduce the time it takes to qualify with the new Fast Track LPC
•Benefit from high levels of face-to-face interaction and business-focused teaching
•Take advantage of our strong links with the legal profession through our networking events and career mentoring
•Enhance your learning experience with personal tutor support throughout your LPC
BPP offers the only LPC that integrates business into the programme that offers you a Masters degree in both law and business.
Why walk away with the standard LPC when you can study our unique MA (LPC with Business). Develop an advanced commercial and business acumen that firms demand and stand out from the crowd. In addition to the LPC you will complete two additional business modules and a Business Intelligence Project that enables you to develop an advanced understanding of the business and strategic environment in which clients and law firms operate and the skills to use this knowledge within legal practice.
Find out more about the MA (LPC with Business).
Our LPC teaching is business focused to reflect the demand by the profession for commercially-aware trainees. Created in conjunction with leading law firms and BPP Business School, our LPC is innovative, dynamic and marketing-leading.
To ensure you get the most from your LPC, we teach in small groups delivered by experienced tutors who are qualified solicitors. We believe in offering a high level of tutor-student interaction and, throughout your LPC studies, you’ll have the support of a dedicated personal tutor and be able to sign up for one-to-one mentoring.
You can choose to study your LPC full-time, Fast Track or part-time. There are three start dates throughout the year in January, August and September, so you can begin your studies at a time that suits you.
BPP was the first provider to offer a Fast Track LPC. Available over seven months, rather than nine, it offers the same high levels of face-to-face contact, condensed into a shorter period.
Our award winning Pro Bono centre gives you an unrivalled opportunity to work on actual cases. As well as putting your knowledge into practice, this experience can be crucial in enhancing your CV and getting your career off to the best possible start.
From the moment you accept your place on our LPC, you’ll have access to our careers service, which offers:
You will never leave an advice session empty handed. Together, we’ll draw up a career action plan which details the steps you should take to achieve your goals.
From 2012, all LPC students can study our unique Law Firm as a Business module, which introduces you to some of the essential skills of business and commercial awareness and gives an insight into the practicalities of being a trainee in a law firm.
As all of BPP’s LPC teaching is also available in an online format, you are given the opportunity to sign up to a 4th elective. This will enable you to gain an extra area of expertise not covered by your three LPC electives. The 4th elective is not examinable and does not form part of your LPC studies.
The BPP High Street Extra module gives you the opportunity to focus on areas of law relevant to High Street firms – such as conveyancing, partnerships and insolvency. This module is perfect if you are pursuing a career in some of these most in-demand areas of law.
Our full-time programme is designed to fit around your lifestyle. For example, you can select from the following schedules:
Please note, these timetables are subject to availability and vary between centres.
Our part-time programme is designed to fit around your other commitments such as work and family. All lectures for the part time modes are online for maximum flexibility. For example, you can select from the following schedules:
Please note these modes are subject to availability and vary between centres.
Content from every LPC session (lectures and classroom teaching) is available online, so you can consolidate and revise whenever and wherever you choose.
BPP are now offering Accredited Prior Learning (APL) for BVC and BPTC students applying for the LPC which includes some exemptions and discounted fees:
Successful BPP graduates of the BVC may be granted exemptions from attendance and assessment in the following areas:
Successful BPP graduates of the BPTC may be granted exemption from attendance and assessment in the following areas:
Successful BVC and BPTC graduates will be granted a 50% discount on LPC fees through APL. This applies to students who completed the BVC/BPTC no earlier than five years prior to the date of their enrolment on the LPC.
BVC/BPTC graduates are not required to have undertaken pupillage; however students pursuing this route will have to undertake a full training contract following the LPC: the APL policy does not grant any exemption from completing a training contract.
Students who have completed a pupillage should not follow the APL route as they are eligible to become a solicitor via the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme regulations (QLTS).
For full details please call our Admissions team or visit the SRA website www.sra.org.uk
To apply for the BPP LPC you’ll need to hold a minimum of one of the following:
If you wish to study our Fast-Track LPC you will usually be required to hold a 2.1 at degree level.
If English is not your first language you will need to hold IELTS level 6.5 or equivalent.
Please note we do not accept students with third class degrees onto the LPC.
SRA
The SRA Training Regulations 2011 state that you must have enrolled with the Solicitors Regulation Authority before you commence the LPC programme. You should apply directly for the student enrolment with the SRA in advance of your LPC start date with BPP. Please, note this is in addition to your LPC admission application. For further details on the SRA enrolment visit the SRA website.
Please see: http://www.bpp.com/carbon-content-1.0-SNAPSHOT/resources/ECMDocument?contentName=LPC_Sept_2012_Payment_Plan_Temporary_Replacement
Whether you choose to study full-time or part time, the LPC is divided into two stages:
Small group sessions
At the start of each module, you will be provided with a comprehensive ‘materials pack’ containing chapter (lecture) handouts and Small Group Session (SGS) descriptions. Each module is then delivered by way of lectures and SGSs. Lectures typically last 1 hour and SGSs are 2 hours.
In preparation for each SGS, you will be required to read the relevant chapter handout, listen to the accompanying lecture and undertake the preparation detailed in the SGS Description. This preparation might require you to research an area of law, prepare a presentation, draft a contractual clause, prepare a letter of advice, analyse a cause of action, for example.
Small group sessions involve a wide range of different learning and teaching techniques. Activities combine individual and team work, and might involve:
Classroom materials are drafted by our tutors, all of whom have worked in practice as either solicitors or barristers. This ensures that the practical activities undertaken in your SGSs are all in the context of realistic case studies which really prepare you for practice.
During your core practice areas (Business Law and Practice, Property Law and Practice, Civil Litigation and Criminal Litigation), you will undertake work for three key ‘clients’. By considering their businesses as a whole, you will appreciate how they operate and how decisions made in the context of a property or business transaction might impact upon ongoing litigation.
In the elective term, you will act for a broad range of clients reflecting the diversity of experience in practice. This will help to develop not only your legal acumen but also your commercial awareness.
Stage 1
Compulsory
Taxation – (NA Credits)
Advocacy – (NA Credits)
Wills and Administration of Estates – (NA Credits)
Interviewing and Advising – (NA Credits)
Property Law and Practice – (30 Credits)
Professional Conduct and Regulation – (NACredits)
Writing – (NA Credits)
Litigation (Civil and Criminal) – (30 Credits )
Solicitors’ Accounts – (NA Credits)
Business Law and Practice – (NA Credits)
Stage 2
Optional (10 Credits)
Debt Finance
Family Law
Media and Entertainment Law
Equity Finance
Immigration Law
Employment Law
Private Acquisitions
Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Advanced Commercial Litigation
Advanced Criminal Litigation
Commercial Law and Intellectual Property
Advanced Commercial Property
Insurance Law and Practice
Private Client (Wills, Probate and Estate Planning)
Corporate Finance
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