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Postgraduate Diploma , Legal Practice
Course Description
Our LPC provides the essential training you need to become a qualified solicitor.
Our training is trusted by the profession. Over 60 leading law firms exclusively send their trainee solicitors to study with us.**
- Learn from qualified lawyers who can help develop your legal career, with links to firms and in-house teams at every level
- Get ahead of the competition with our cutting-edge Legal Technology Innovation and Design optional module
- Explore the practice areas that align with your career goals, through our wide range of electives
- Enhance your professional skills and commercial awareness through additional skills workshops during our Employability Week
- Top up your LPC to a full Master’s degree at no extra cost by completing two additional business modules or one practitioner-focused project+
- Expert support with training contract applications, mock interviews and CV advice from our Careers Service
- Gain practical legal work experience by advising real clients through our award-winning Pro Bono Centre.
- With our Career Guarantee, gain a training contract within six months of completing our LPC or enhance your legal CV with a further course, free of charge.+
Course Content
Course structure
The LPC is divided into two stages.
- Stage One – study the core practice areas of Business Law and Practice, Property Law and Practice and Litigation (Civil and Criminal). The emphasis is on practical application, using specifically designed client portfolios and simulated transactions.
- Stage Two - select three elective modules in areas as diverse as Corporate Finance, Commercial Law and Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law or Immigration Law.
- Fourth elective (optional) - as all of our LPC teaching is also available in an online format, you will also have the opportunity to access the online materials for an additional elective for free, to further enhance your specialist legal knowledge. This elective is not examined, and non-credit bearing.
Legal Technology Innovation and Design*
An area at the forefront of new skills sought by recruiters, this optional online module will focus on building the innovation skills that future solicitors will be expected to demonstrate.
- Understand legal technology (e.g. AI, Blockchain, Big Data, and Automation)
- Develop project management skills and techniques
- Learn skills to design technology that responds to problems
- Engage in design thinking and process mapping vital in the legal workplace
Please note: all modules run subject to demand and may differ across all locations. *This optional module is non-credit bearing and not examined. It can be studied in addition to any of the modules on the LPC and LLM Legal Practice (Solicitors).
Exemptions
BPTC graduates applying for the LPC may be eligible for exemptions and discounted fees when applying with Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL). For more information, speak to our admissions team.
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Advocacy
5 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Business Law and Practice (including taxation)
30 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Drafting
5 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Interviewing and Advising
5 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Litigation (Civil and Criminal)
30 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Practical Legal Research and Writing
5 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Professional Conduct and Regulation (PCR) (including Solicitors' Accounts (SA))
5 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Property Law and Practice
15 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Wills and Administration of Estates
5 Stage 1 - Compulsory
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Advanced Commercial Litigation
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Advanced Commercial Property
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Advanced Criminal Litigation
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Commercial Law & Intellectual Property
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Corporate Finance
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Debt Finance
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Employment Law
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Equity Finance
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Family Law
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Immigration Law
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Insurance Law
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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International Trade and Transactions
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Media and Entertainment Law
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Medical Negligence and Personal Injury
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Private Acquisitions
15 Stage 2 - Optional
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Private Client (Wills, Probate and Estate Planning)
15 Stage 2 - Optional
Entry Requirements
Educational background
The entry requirements to study the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at BPP University Law School are:
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Qualifying law degree minimum 2.2 or above
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Non-law degree minimum 2.2 or above and a GDL, CPE, or similar qualification such as CILEx
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If you wish to study our fast-track LPC, you will be required to hold a 2.1 at degree level
English language requirements
If English is not your first language and you do not hold an honours degree that was delivered in English, you will be required to provide certified proof of ability in written and spoken English to, at least, IELTS 6.5 (overall) or equivalent.
Additional Information
To apply, please select your preferred intake and study mode.
Full-time and fast-track LPC applications are made through the Central Applications Board (CAB). Part-time LPC applications are made directly to BPP University.
*As at September 2018. ***Of surveyed students graduating from BPP University Law School postgraduate programmes in 2017. +T&Cs apply.
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