LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE
The course meets the standards approved by the Law Society, and builds upon them to help prepare students better for practice in the City. It is grounded in black letter law but also teaches students about the business context in which they will give their legal advice when they start work.
Students will learn how to apply the law in a commercial context through a combination of teaching methods including:
- MBA-style learning
- case studies
- a mock transaction and
- interactive e-learning programmes
Much of the teaching is based around mock 'client portfolios' so that students can learn about how to deliver a service that will be valued by clients, before putting the theory into practice during their training contract and beyond.
In addition, sessions will be devoted to developing interpersonal and professional skills — such as team-working, communication skills, and effective client management — that will help future trainees to succeed in their careers.
Our future trainees will have close access to the firm as they will all be based in London for this important year before starting work. All of our students will have their 'study day' on one of two days each week, and we will arrange a programme of events spread over the academic year to help them feel part of the firm before actually joining.
We prefer candidates to study the GDL at BPP in Leeds, London or Manchester.
For further details about the LPC, please click here.
Financial Assistance
Candidates that accept the offer of a training contract with us will receive a grant that includes full payment of fees and a contribution towards maintenance. Our maintenance grants for all future trainees are £8,000 for LPC and GDL students in London and £7,000 for GDL students outside London. If you have already started the GDL or LPC when you accept a training contract offer, we will reimburse all fees and provide a full maintenance grant as detailed above.