Course summary
Completing this LPC will partly fulfil the vocational stage of your training to qualify as a solicitor. You’ll be able to proceed to the next stage via a training contract. Training requirements to qualify as a solicitor Completing this course will partly fulfil the vocational stage of your training to qualify as a solicitor. Recognised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, it meets the authority's training requirements and covers a range of legal subjects prescribed by the professional body. As part of this course, you’ll:
- Focus on realistic case studies and take part in workshops that explore the challenges of professional practice
- Be taught by a team of academic staff who are qualified lawyers with wide-ranging professional experience that will feed into your learning
- Be supported by staff through a variety of option modules as you start to explore areas of interest
- Learning to suit you
- Designed to be as flexible as possible, this course will give you the option to study on campus or via online distance learning. If you choose our online distance learning delivery, you’ll be able to access our live LPC workshops anywhere in the world using Microsoft Teams. You’ll also have the opportunity to attend some on-campus sessions during key times such as induction, revision and for employability events
- Law Trove - an online service giving you free access to over 200 legal textbooks, meaning you spend less, if anything, on textbooks
- Mentoring scheme - benefit from being paired with a professional mentor from Leeds’ legal or business community
- Law in Practice lectures - previous speakers including human rights campaigner Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, and Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer
- Flexible study – choose to study full-time or part-time, on campus or distance learning
Modules
Core Modules: - Wills & Administration of Estates - Drafting - Writing - Professional Conduct & Regulation - Solicitors Accounts - Taxation - Practical Legal Research - Advocacy - Litigation: Civil & Criminal - Property Law & Practice - Business Law & Practice - Interviewing & Advising
- Independent Legal Research Project. In addition, choose from a list of option modules. Please check our website for a full and up-to-date list.
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- Solicitors Regulation Authority
Entry requirements
Applicants should either have at least a 2nd Class Honours qualifying law degree or a postgraduate diploma in law (GDL/CPE). Applicants are required to provide a letter from their awarding institution to confirm they hold a qualifying law degree. All applications should be supported by a reference, either academic or professional. Applicants whose 1st language is not English require IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum 5.5 in each component) or equivalent.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this 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
Provider information
Leeds Beckett University
City Campus
Leeds
LS1 3HE