The College of Legal Practice is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Keele University, to provide SQE preparation training as part of Keele’s LLM in Legal Practice.

This innovative Masters programme offers progressive career-focused training to help graduates get ahead with their career pathways to become solicitors.

The College of Legal Practice will offer their accredited and high quality virtual teaching in two modules that prepare students for SQE1 and SQE2, the two assessment components of the new SQE pathway to qualification.

The College’s experienced teaching team have taught the LPC, LLB and GDL in many UK Universities and now specialise in delivering the SQE. The College’s wider expert supervisors are nearly all solicitors, and their supervision is grounded in up to date and relevant legal practice. Having helped students prepare for every SQE assessment since its inception, the College’s team understand how to help them succeed in the SQE, particularly through high levels of individual supervision and support.

While preparing students to take the SQE exams, this innovative LLM also equips them with those Postgraduate attributes needed to address complex legal issues both systematically and creatively, showing originality in tackling and solving legal problems, through several taught modules, as well as a research project. The tailored curriculum selected enables students to gain advanced knowledge in key areas of legal practice, such as International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration or Comparative Corporate Governance.

Both the knowledge and skills developed through this programme prepare students for practice and make them more attractive to employers. This LLM also supports career progression for those already in legal practice, but not yet qualified, as well as foreign qualified lawyers, considering the great demand by international law firms for England and Wales qualified solicitors. In addition, as students entering this programme will have the opportunity to sit the external SQE examinations whilst the degree is still ongoing, they will already be in a position of strength to approach law firms to secure Qualifying Work Experience, an additional requirement to the SQE examinations to qualify.

Dr Bleddyn Davies, Head of the School of Law at Keele University, said;
"This is an excellent addition to the suite of programmes here at Keele and we genuinely believe it offers students the best of both worlds. On the one hand, the academic excellence that Keele is known for and on the other, the internationally recognised practical expertise offered by the College of Legal Practice. It means that students who want to prepare for the SQE in an academic environment now have the option of coming to Keele, and our existing students now have a clear route to complete their academic legal journey here. We are excited to see this market-leading offer go from strength to strength.”

CEO of The College of Legal Practice, Dr Giles Proctor said: 
“We are thrilled to be partnering with Keele University to offer SQE training to their Masters’ students. This package of practice-based modules combined with SQE preparation will no doubt set Keele students apart from their peers and on the way to a successful legal career.”

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Background on The College of Legal Practice

The College of Legal Practice is a fully virtual postgraduate law school based in the UK.

The College’s goals are to help remove barriers to entry to the legal profession and provide the highest quality of practical legal education. Unlike traditional ‘one-size-fits all’ solutions, the College designs courses to meet the specific circumstances and unique aspirations of learners, with each one grounded in real-world, practice scenarios.

The College’s SQE preparation courses are intensive, high-quality courses that guide learners through SQE1 and SQE2. Through live individual supervision, supported by group work and a ground-breaking learning portal, their flexible courses ensure that every student can develop and perform to the best of their abilities in the SQE.

For more information or details please explore our website. For media enquiries, please contact Peter Liver on +44 7494270799 or pliver@collegalpractice.com