Legal Practice LLM

 

 

Course information

The LLM in Legal Practice provides graduates who have completed the academic stage of legal training with the professional stage of training required to qualify as a solicitor. The course aims to prepare you for employment as a trainee solicitor and to provide you with a solid foundation for subsequent practice as a solicitor. In addition, this course offers you an opportunity to extend your research in an area of interest within legal practice, through a research module and a dissertation. 

The course imitates the nature of the work you would encounter in legal practice and follows clients through various legal transactions and court hearings. It builds on the substantive law that you will have already learnt and includes the study of both law and procedure in the major areas of practice.

You’ll also learn the everyday skills of legal research, interviewing, writing, drafting and advocacy to prepare you for your subsequent professional training and for practice as a solicitor.

In addition, we aim to help you apply academic understanding and research techniques to the analysis of law, policy and practice within your chosen area for the final LLM qualification. You’ll also learn how to produce analytical, creative and original research that demonstrates the relationships between substantive law, policy, socio-economic context and legal practice.

Find out more about this course here

Apply for the full-time course through LawCAB using the LPC application form.

Apply directly to London Metropolitan University for a part-time course.

Course length

One year, full-time

Two years, part-time

Eligibility requirements

Require a qualifying law degree (awarded by a Solicitor Regulation Authority (SRA) approved provider) with at least second class honours. 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 and Trusts, and Law of the European Union. Further guidance on what amounts to a Qualifying Law Degree is available on the SRA website.

If you’re a non-law graduate, a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) or Common Professional Examination (CPE) with an average of at least 50%.

Prior to joining applicants will need to provide evidence of Completion of the Academic Stage of Training in the form of a letter or email from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) (obtained prior to July 2014) or a letter from the awarding University to state that your Undergraduate Degree is a Qualifying Law Degree (to be issued on completion of your award) or that you have completed and passed all seven core GDL/CPE subjects within the maximum number of attempts allowed (not more than three).

All LPC applicants must fall within the SRA's transitional arrangements.

Graduate Visa eligibility

Yes

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Qualification Level

LLM / 232 credits

Find out here what the different qualification levels mean.

How to apply

Log in to LawCAB

Create a LPC application form from your dashboard.

Select London Metropolitan University from the list of institutions in the course choice section of your form and then select the course, location and start date you want to apply for.

Full details of the application process are available here.