Legal Practice

Entry requirements

The LLM in Legal Practice is aimed at students who have completed their undergraduate studies in law or another discipline. Applications are encouraged from students who have just completed their undergraduate studies and from those who graduated some time ago.

Typical students entering onto the LLM in Legal Practice will have a 2.2 honours undergraduate degree in any discipline. Applications will also be considered from students on the basis of their professional work backgrounds.

Months of entry

September

Course content

On the Legal Practice LLM at Worcester you will be guided through your studies by dedicated experts who are committed to your learning and will provide you with support throughout your studies.

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 course 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

Teaching

You will be taught through face-to-face interactive workshops. Interactive workshops take a variety of forms and are intended to enable the application of learning through discussion and small group activities. They also allow the flexibility to enable discussion and development of understanding of topics, as well as practical exercises such as court applications. All of these are designed to develop subject-specific skills and how they would be applied in a professional context.

You have an opportunity to engage fully with the employability programme in the School of Law including volunteering in the School’s Legal Advice Centre. You will also have the option to attend the School of Law’s research seminar series and will be encouraged towards the end of the academic year to present a research seminar based on your dissertation research.

At the beginning of your studies, you will be assigned a personal academic tutor, and meetings with your personal academic tutor are scheduled on at least four occasions during your course.

The University places emphasis on enabling you to develop the independent learning capabilities that will equip you for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement. In addition to the personal academic tutoring system, a mixture of independent study, teaching and academic support from Student Services and Library Services enables you to reflect on progress and build up a profile of skills, achievements and experiences that will help you to flourish and be successful in your career beyond university.

Careers

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.

Information for international students

Applicants for whom English is not their first language require IELTS 6.5 or above and a minimum of 6 in each element.