LLM Professional Legal Practice

Course overview

Study level: Postgraduate

The LLM Professional Legal Practice course provides a comprehensive course of study that will provide you with the knowledge and understanding of the legal principles and professional practice, as they relate to the work of a Solicitor and CILEX Lawyer and a master’s level award.

The course aims to:

• Prepare you to take the professional level qualifications required to pursue a career as a Solicitor or a CILEX Lawyer (See section exemptions for more information).
• Develop your ability to apply legal knowledge and skills, to both the theory and practice of law utilising complex authentic scenarios.
• Develop your understanding of the professional ethics requirements of a legal practitioner, based upon the Code of Conduct of the SRA and CILEX.

The course will be of interest to anyone seeking a career in professional legal practice who is a law graduate or has completed Coventry University’s PgCert in Principles of Law or a similar course.

On completion of the course, students are required to arrange and take the applicable examination with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), if they wish to become a solicitor, or with CILEX if they wish to become a CILEX lawyer and pay the associated fee.

The course is designed to prepare students to sit the Solicitors Qualifying Examination Part 1 and Part 2 – this is not embedded in the course. Students will have to sit the exam independently directly with the SRA.

The course is also designed to prepare students to sit the CILEX Lawyer professional examinations (CPQ) – this is not embedded in the course. Students will have to sit the exam independently directly with CILEX.