Course summary
Leading LPC training from BPP. Get the knowledge and skills you need to secure a training contract and succeed in practice with the LLM Legal Practice Course (LPC) Employability-focused solicitor training You can be confident that our LPC will provide you with the knowledge, skills, and connections to secure that all-important training contract.
- Choose from a range of electives to match your career goals
- Simulated practice to help you learn in the context of different client case studies
- Gain a competitive edge with our Legal Tech, Innovation and Design module, focused on building the skills future solicitors will need
- Get instant access to our Bridge to the LPC programme. With up to 40 hours of additional study, it’s designed to transition you from your degree to the next stage in legal training
- Enhance your professional skills and commercial awareness with additional skills workshops during our Employability Week
- Virtual Practice Environment: Experience realistic briefs and case handling in a way that mirrors legal practice.
- Adapt: Our unique platform embeds your course learning in AI that tracks your progress, measures your strengths, and develops your target areas for improvement.
Modules
Stage one During stage one, you’ll 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, utilising specifically designed client portfolios and simulated transactions to understand how you would encounter these areas in practice. • Advocacy • Business Law and Practice • Drafting • Interviewing and Advising • Litigation • Practical Legal Research and Writing • Professional Conduct and Regulation (PCR) including Solicitor’s Accounts (SA) • Property Law and Practice • Will and Administration of Estates Stage two In stage two of the LPC, you will choose one of our two electives streams: General Practice or Commercial. You will study all three elective modules in the stream of your choice, which should enable you to align your modules to the practice areas of the types of firm you aspire to train with. General Practice modules: • Employment Law (15 credits) • Family Law (15 credits) • Medical Negligence & Personal Injury (15 credits) Commercial modules: • Advanced Commercial Litigation (15 credits) • Advanced Commercial Property (15 credits) • Commercial Law & Intellectual Property (15 credits) Master’s component For the Master’s component of the LLM Legal Practice Course, you will study two additional modules. Negotiation and Case Analysis This module will provide you with a practical understanding of the nature of case analysis and negotiation, different negotiation styles and strategies for negotiation. The module is assessed by a coursework case study assessment of up to 3,000 words. Law Review and Reform Our Law Review and Reform module requires you to carry out detailed practical research and identify an area of law in need of reform. Analyse and critique the existing law, propose one of more possible reforms to address the current weakness and then critically analyse the proposal in 2,500-3,000 words. BPP recommends Legal Technology Innovation and Design: developed in close collaboration with law firms, this optional online module will provide you with the new skills sought by recruiters. Completing the module will enable you to develop emerging tech skills that are becoming increasingly crucial in practice.
Assessment method
Our LLM Legal Practice Course (LPC) is assessed by a variety of methods. These include: • Written exams • Oral assessments • Written coursework Our assessments are ‘open book’ on the LLM Legal Practice Course. You are permitted to take hard copies of any materials into your exams, such as your course materials, any revision notes and statute books. The majority of legal knowledge required for passing the LLM Legal Practice Course comes from these permitted sources, as opposed to case law. You can focus your revision on when and how to apply law, rather than memorising it, which most accurately reflects what it is like in practice.
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- Solicitors Regulation Authority
Entry requirements
The entry requirements to study the LLM Legal Practice Course are: • Qualifying law degree minimum 2:2 or above • Non-law degree minimum 2:2 or above and a pass in a law conversion course, such as a PGDL, GDL, CPE, or similar qualification such as CILEx
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £14200 | Whole course |
| England | £14200 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £14200 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £14200 | Whole course |
| Wales | £14200 | Whole course |
| Channel Islands | £14200 | Whole course |
| Republic of Ireland | £14200 | Whole course |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Sponsorship information
Our LLM Legal Practice Course is eligible for postgraduate funding of up to £12,167. To widen access to the legal profession, we offer an extensive range of funding options to ensure finance isn’t a barrier to a promising legal career.
Provider information
BPP University
BPP House
Aldine Place
142-144 Uxbridge Road
London
W12 8AA