How you’ll study Full-time study
Who will teach me? Jane Wood Principal Lecturer and Course Leader Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and LLM Legal Practice Course (LLM LPC) Jane Wood has been qualified as a solicitor for over 30 years and has combined a career in practice as well as teaching on the GDL and the LPC over the course of her career. Jane’s specialisations include property law (residential and commercial) and private client work. 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. Your future career 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. The LLM LPC at Nottingham Law School has a reputation that’s second to none. It’s consistently received the highest possible grading of ‘commendable practice’ from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, across every area of the 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. Small-group sessions are held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 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. Part-time study Our part-time LLM LPC is delivered through weekend attendance over a two-year period, broadly following the same teaching pattern as the full-time LLM LPC. 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. 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 each of the three compulsory and 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.
For full details of course delivery and assessment, fees and funding and how to apply, visit www.ntu.ac.uk/lpc (full-time) and www.ntu.ac.uk/lpcpt (part-time) to find out more.
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