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Program Overview
LPC Online
The Legal Practice Course (LPC) is a postgraduate legal qualification that is the final academic step for aspiring solicitors. Once successfully completed, you can go on to a training contract before fully qualifying as a solicitor. Our LPC Online offers you the best possible preparation to practise law with the skills to succeed in business.
Key Facts
Entry requirements
- Minimum second class honours Qualifying Law Degree
- or GDL/CPE or MA Law
Duration options
- LPC Online: 22 months (part-time)
- LPC LLM Online: 23 months (part-time)
Study mode options
- Part-time or Part-time Online
Next start date
- September 2025
Employment Promise
If you don’t get a job within nine months of completing the course, we’ll give you 100% of your fees back.
Course Details
Our LPC Online is a completely supported online study programme, offering you the best truly flexible route to your career as a solicitor. You can study where you want, receiving regular online support and feedback on your work from our professionally experienced lecturers. You’ll have access to world-class learning materials, adapting our on campus material into a variety of engaging online methods.
The course structure has been designed to allow you to build a portfolio of work to support your job applications and help you to stand out from the crowd. The combination of online learning resources and supervision from your lecturer will provide you with relevant knowledge and practical skills needed as a trainee solicitor, while our award-winning careers support will help you with your training contract applications and give you access to over 3,000 pro bono opportunities as soon as you accept your place.
Course Structure
Stage 1 modules
- Introduction to Professional Practice
- Business Law and Practice Knowledge and Skills
- Dispute Resolution Knowledge and Skills
- Real Estate Knowledge and Skills
Stage 2 modules
Students choose 3 electives for the LPC, and students on the LLM LPC must study a 4th elective. The University offers the following electives which cover corporate, commercial and private client practice areas.
- Corporate and Commercial Practice Electives
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Employment Law & Practice
- Intellectual Property Law & Practice
- Commercial and Private Client Practice Electives
- Advanced Criminal Law and Practice*
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Employment Law & Practice
- Family Law & Practice
- Intellectual Property Law & Practice
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice*
- Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice
- Private Client Law & Practice
Course Start Dates
September 2025
- Legal Practice Course (LPC)
- Part-time: Online
September 2026
- Legal Practice Course (LPC)
- Part-time Online: Online
Fees and Applying
How to Apply
Apply direct to The University of Law.
Fees and Funding
- 2025/26 Course Fee (for courses starting on or after 1 July 2025)
- Online: Total fees (including £15 SRA registration fee*) - £16,600
We also have a range of scholarships and bursaries available which make studying with us more affordable than ever.
If you choose to study our MSc in Law, Business and Management or LLM in Professional Legal Practice alongside your LPC you could also be eligible for a Postgraduate Master's Loan.
If you’re one of our alumni, you may be eligible to receive our £500 General Alumni Discount.
*This change is set by the SRA and is subject to an increase.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Legal Practice Course (LPC) is a postgraduate legal qualification that is the final academic step for aspiring solicitors. Once successfully completed, you can go on to a training contract before fully qualifying as a solicitor. The LPC Online offers you the best possible preparation to practise law with the skills to succeed in business.
Outline:
The LPC Online is a completely supported online study programme, offering you the best truly flexible route to your career as a solicitor. You’ll have access to world-class learning materials, adapting our on campus material into a variety of engaging online methods. The combination of online learning resources and supervision from your lecturer will provide you with relevant knowledge and practical skills needed as a trainee solicitor, while our award-winning careers support will help you with your training contract applications and give you access to over 3,000 pro bono opportunities as soon as you accept your place.
Stage 1 Modules:
- Introduction to Professional Practice
- Business Law and Practice Knowledge and Skills
- Dispute Resolution Knowledge and Skills
- Real Estate Knowledge and Skills
Stage 2 Modules:
Students choose 3 electives for the LPC, and students on the LLM LPC may study a 4th elective. The University offers the following electives and students can choose electives from one of two practice areas. Either select electives appropriate for corporate and commercial practice or choose electives for commercial and private client practice.
Electives available to students starting the LPC in September 2024:
Corporate and Commercial Practice Electives:
- Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice
- Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice
- Commercial Dispute Resolution Law & Practice
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Employment Law & Practice
- Intellectual Property Law & Practice
Commercial and Private Client Practice Electives:
- Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice
- Commercial Dispute Resolution Law & Practice
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Employment Law & Practice
- Intellectual Property Law & Practice
- Advanced Criminal Law and Practice
- Family Law & Practice
- Immigration Law & Practice
- Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice
- Private Client Law & Practice
Electives available to students starting the LPC in or after January 2025:
Corporate and Commercial Practice Electives:
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Employment Law & Practice
- Intellectual Property Law & Practice
Commercial and Private Client Practice Electives:
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Employment Law & Practice
- Intellectual Property Law & Practice
- Advanced Criminal Law and Practice
- Family Law & Practice
- Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice
- Private Client Law & Practice
LLM in Professional Legal Practice (optional):
To receive an LLM in Professional Legal Practice students starting in September 2024 may choose to study either of the following taught modules:
- Law and Business module Students starting in or after January 2025 will study an additional elective module. All LLM students will also undertake a self-study Professional Practice Research Report module. If you choose not to complete the LLM in Professional Legal Practice you will be issued with a Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) and will still have completed the vocational stage of training requirements.
MSc in Law, Business and Management (optional):
The MSc in Law, Business and Management is available to students starting in September 2024 only. To receive an MSc you must complete two additional MSc modules:
- Law and Business
- Case Study Project If you choose not to complete the MSc in Law, Business and Management you will be issued with a Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) and will still have completed the vocational stage of training requirements.
Course Start Dates:
- September 2024
- January 2025
Assessment:
There are a range of assessments conducted online, including oral assessments, open book examinations and take home 24 hour assessments.
- Available campuses: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester or Nottingham. Mock assessments (taken online) are arranged in order to prepare you for the real assessments. The additional Master’s modules are assessed by a 3000 word written report and oral assessment.
Teaching:
The LPC Online is a completely supported online study programme, offering you the best truly flexible route to your career as a solicitor. You’ll have access to world-class learning materials, adapting our on campus material into a variety of engaging online methods.
Careers:
We care about your career, which is why we offer support with job applications and other work experience opportunities as soon as you accept your place.
- 96% of LPC graduates were in employment or further study 15 months after graduating (2020/21 Graduate Outcomes data). Contains HESA Data: Copyright Jisc 2022.
- Our Employment Promise - get a job in nine months or your fees back, up to 50% as cashback and 50% as credit towards another course.
Other:
- The LPC is eligible for financial support such as a postgraduate student loan, bursaries and scholarships.
- If you already have a training contract in place, the LPC is the route we would recommend. If you don’t have a training contract arranged already, then the SQE may be more suitable for you because it is more flexible in terms of options for work experience. This standalone online module provides the additional training that you’ll need to qualify to complete the LPC and gives you the necessary skills and knowledge that you’ll need to study the LPC.
- The SRA has advised that LPC students or graduates who have not secured a training contract can combine the SQE pathway’s two years of Qualifying Work Experience (QWE) and SQE2 assessment as an equivalent to a period of recognised training. On successful completion of this you would be admitted as a solicitor under the LPC route.
- We have a vast network in the legal industry and deliver training to 91 of the top 100 law firms, with exclusive relationships with 61 of the top UK law firms and many of the most prestigious US firms.
- You can still continue with the LPC route to qualify as a solicitor if you have completed, started, accepted an offer, or paid a non-refundable deposit for one of the following by 31 August 2021:
- Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) / Common Professional Examination
- MA Law
- Legal Practice Course (LPC)
- a period of recognised training (also known as a training contract)
- For a qualifying law degree (QLD) and exempting law degree (ELD), such as our LLB, you must have completed, started, accepted an offer or paid a non-refundable deposit by 21 September 2021.
- In most cases, for the QLD, ELD and CPE, the relevant course must have started at the latest on or before 31 December 2021.
- If you started the full-time GDL or MA Law in September 2021, you should be eligible to commence the Legal Practice Course (LPC) in September 2022, once you have successfully completed your course.
