Legal Practice University of Worcester

Overview

The Legal Practice programme at the University of Worcester is designed to introduce you to the Solicitors Qualifying Examination 1 curriculum and to give you an opportunity to engage with the skills needed for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination 2.

You will develop close working relationships with your lecturers in workshops, when role-playing court procedures in our realistic facilities or through working in our Legal Advice Centre.

Wherever you study law, it can be a challenging and rewarding subject. At Worcester, the big difference is the personal level of support we give you throughout your time here. In fact, we build our teaching around it.

Key features

• Designed in light of the changes to qualifying as a solicitor in England and Wales and the Solicitors Qualifying Examination 1, this Legal Practice course at the University of Worcester will introduce the curriculum of this examination and give you an opportunity to engage with skills needed.

• Attractive, professionally focused course

• Flexible delivery including part-time study

• Superb Court Room facilities

• An experienced and dedicated teaching team

• Excellent links with legal professionals, so you can learn about the law in context and gain excellent work experience opportunities

• Legal Advice Centre where you can volunteer to work with practising solicitors, gathering details from real clients on real cases and learning from the advice they receive.

Where could it take you?

Employability is at the heart of Law at the University of Worcester, and we offer a wide range of opportunities for you to gain work experience through volunteering and mentoring schemes.

We work closely with a variety of local, regional and national employers and use their expertise to input into the academic curriculum. In this way, we ensure that your LLM in Legal Practice degree is attractive to potential employers and that you have the opportunity to explore many different career options, both in the legal profession and in other areas, such as business and management.

The LLM in Legal Practice, whilst not designed to prepare you for the Bar Training Course, is nonetheless attractive for students wishing to pursue a career as a barrister due to the opportunity to gain a master’s qualification in law and undertake a challenging and intellectually stimulating course.