Your study options Full-time study
• The Professional Legal Practice module provides practical experience and commercial insight, which will ensure you are ready to start your career. • Scholarships are available, and we also offer a progression discount to our students and alumni (terms and conditions apply). Please see www.ntu.ac.uk/scholarshipsnls for more information. What you’ll study Modules Our LLM LPC course is delivered across two stages. Stage One is delivered from September to February and Stage Two is delivered from February to June. Stage One includes teaching of the Professional Legal Practice module. Stage Two includes three elective modules and – if you’re aiming for the LLM award, submission of either your project or dissertation. You can also submit this work after the academic year has ended. Stage One Stage One covers the below core elements: • Business (including Taxation and Business Accounts) • Property • Litigation (Civil and Criminal) • Wills and Administration of Estates • Solicitors’ Accounts • Professional Conduct and Regulation • Professional Legal Practice: advocacy, interviewing, writing, drafting, and research Stage Two You’ll choose three electives from the list below. You can choose whether to select all three from one subject area, or to mix and match to best suit your needs. • Commercial Law • Advanced Commercial Property • Private Client • Advanced Civil Litigation • Advanced Criminal Practice • Family and Child Protection Law • Employment Law The following electives are only available on the full-time course.
Many students require flexibility to fit in with work, family or other commitments. As a result of this, our full-time LLM LPC course is taught across three days every week, to allow our students greater flexibility. However, this is an intensive study programme and taking on extra employment is not recommended for the LLM LPC (full-time). Small group sessions are held on Tuesdays and, Wednesdays or Wednesdays and Thursdays. Lectures are held on Fridays, and these will be recorded so that attendance is not compulsory. This delivery format gives you the option to be on campus either two or three days each week and to study at your own convenience at other times. Part-time study Our part-time course broadly follows the same teaching pattern as the full-time course. You can study around work and family commitments. Stage One and Stage Two have the same format as the full-time course, however the teaching is spread over two years. In total you will attend two full weeks and fourteen weekends spread across the two years. Weekend attendance is compulsory. The weekend attendance will usually comprise Saturday and Sunday, although there may be lectures and assessments on some Fridays. Each lecture will be recorded so that students will have the option of watching the lectures online in their own time. If you work in a legal environment while studying you may be able to apply for a reduction of up to six months from your training contract. If you are able to secure a training contract at the start of the course, you’ll undertake a part-time study training contract. This allows you to qualify as quickly as a full-time student. See the SRA website www.sra.org.uk for more information. Assessment Assessments are designed to integrate with the course as a whole. The main assessment periods occur at the end of both Stage One and Stage Two. You’ll be assessed by written examination in three compulsory and all of your elective subjects. Other suitable methods of assessment are employed to cover professional conduct and regulation, solicitors’ accounts and wills and administration of estates. Your project or dissertation is an independent piece of work for which you receive relevant supervision. When you join the course, you will need to make a decision about whether or not you intend to submit a project or a dissertation (or possibly neither). Information to help you with this decision will be provided early on in the course. What’s next? Our dedicated Employability team will support you in your search for a training contract and the number of Nottingham Law School graduates gaining a training contract or paralegal work is consistently high. Please note this course can reach its maximum capacity prior to the course start date, which will result in early closure. We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Corporate Finance • Private Acquisitions • Advanced Advocacy Please note, electives are subject to change.
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