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LLM Professional Legal Practice

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    LLM 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time online/blended

Course Description

The LLM Professional Legal Practice course provides a comprehensive course of study that will provide you with the knowledge and understanding of the legal principles and professional practice, as they relate to the work of a Solicitor and CILEX Lawyer and a master’s level award.

The course aims to:

  • Prepare you to take the professional level qualifications required to pursue a career as a Solicitor or a CILEX Lawyer (See section exemptions for more information).
  • Develop your ability to apply legal knowledge and skills, to both the theory and practice of law utilising complex authentic scenarios.
  • Develop your understanding of the professional ethics requirements of a legal practitioner, based upon the Code of Conduct of the SRA and CILEX.

The course will be of interest to anyone seeking a career in professional legal practice who is a law graduate or has completed Coventry University’s PgCert in Principles of Law or a similar course.

On completion of the course, students are required to arrange and take the applicable examination with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), if they wish to become a solicitor, or with CILEX if they wish to become a CILEX lawyer and pay the associated fee.

The course is designed to prepare students to sit the Solicitors Qualifying Examination Part 1 and Part 2 – this is not embedded in the course. Students will have to sit the exam independently directly with the SRA.

The course is also designed to prepare students to sit the CILEX Lawyer professional examinations (CPQ) – this is not embedded in the course. Students will have to sit the exam independently directly with CILEX.

Entry Requirements

Applicants will normally be required to hold a UK law degree (minimum 2:2), the Graduate Diploma in Law (or equivalent law conversion course) or have completed the PgCert Principles of Law at Coventry University.

Alternative qualifications or work experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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Programme Funding

Funding opportunities including scholarships available

Student Destinations

This course is designed to facilitate a graduate moving into a career as either a solicitor or CILEX Lawyer and as such, prepares you for the professional level assessments in these two legal career destinations.

On successful completion of the course, it is anticipated that you will arrange and undertake the assessments for your chosen career destination and once successfully completed transition into your chosen field of professional legal practice, subject to meeting the requirements of the relevant regulatory bodies.

In addition to working as a Solicitor or CILEX Lawyer, a wide variety of other career destinations are available to graduates due to the highly transferable nature of the skills developed on the course.

Where our graduates work

Previous law graduates from Coventry Law School have gone on to work at a wide variety of organisations and firms including:

  • DAC Beachcroft
  • NFU Mutual
  • PwC
  • Deloitte
  • Linklaters
  • Countrywide Tax and Trust Corporation
  • Oracle
  • Squire Patton Boggs
  • Stobbs
  • Co-op Legal Services

Module Details

The course will be delivered in groups by dedicated subject specialist tutors who are in or have recently been engaged in professional practice. Teaching will be delivered through a combination of online content and highly interactive workshop sessions that can be conducted face-to-face or online.

Teaching sessions will involve the use of role plays, live case studies, the use of real-world data and special legal databases, simulations and presentations. Learning throughout the course will be support by our virtual learning environment, which is currently Aula.

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