Course Content
Stage one
- Foundation Course: An intensive, short introduction to the Additional Areas.
- Core Areas: Business Law and Practice, Litigation (Criminal and Civil) and Property Law and Practice
- Additional Areas: Professional Conduct and Regulation, Taxation, Wills and Administration of Estates, Solicitors’ Accounts
- Course Skills: Advocacy, Interviewing, Writing, Drafting, Practical Legal Research
Stage two
Work-based electives: You choose three subjects from a range of commercial and private client electives, which include:
- Child Law
- Commercial Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Property
- Employment Law
- Family Law and Practice
- Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
- Private Client
- Sport and Media Law
LLM
If you would like to study for an LLM in Legal Practice you will undertake an additional dissertation module. Students will be able to access support to undertake practice based, empirical or theoretical research with the support of the full range of the Leicester De Montfort Law School’s academic and practice teams.
Upon successful completion of the LPC and dissertation module you will be awarded an LLM in Legal Practice. If you are only looking to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (the LPC) you are not required to complete a dissertation. The LLM in Legal Practice attracts Government funding provided you are eligible.
