Legal Practice (Top-Up) LLM

Master

In Chelmsford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Chelmsford

  • Duration

    6 Months

Postgraduate (full-time, part-time)

Conduct an independent research project in your chosen area of professional legal practice*, and top up your current qualification to an LLM in just six months to a year. We’ll give you training in research skills that will prove invaluable in your future career, and a dedicated supervisor for advice and support.

Our course lets you explore your chosen area of legal professional practice in depth. You could focus on part of your current professional practice, an area that you wish to work in, or one that’s of academic interest to you.* Whichever you choose, you'll develop your research skills over a four-day seminar series. You'll learn to interrogate hard-copy and electronic sources; create and conduct surveys, questionnaires and interviews; and write-up and present your research findings. You’ll then apply these skills when researching and writing a 15,000-word dissertation.

The research skills you develop on this course are in great demand by employers in the legal profession.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Chelmsford (Essex)
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Bishop Hall Lane, CM 1sS

Start date

On request

About this course

This course will give you an in-depth understanding of your chosen area of legal practice to use in your future career, and teach you vital research skills that are in great demand in the legal profession and beyond.

If you’ve completed the Legal Practice Course or Bar Professional Training Course, or you’re a practising solicitor or barrister who has taken the former Law Society Final Examinations or BVC, this course will top up your qualification to an LLM Legal Practice.

If you’re an overseas lawyer then, subject to taking the Qualified Lawyers' Transfer Scheme (QLTS/QLTT) and/or gaining university accreditation of prior learning and experience, you could also be eligible to apply.

We have three study days on campus in Chelmsford, but at other times you'll work independently with support from a dedicated supervisor. Your supervisor will help you to develop your research proposal or hypothesis, discuss your methodology (including ethics clearance) and act as a mentor throughout your time with us.

Our staff have been recognised for the quality of their work. In 2014, the Government acknowledged our ‘world-leading’ research in its Research Excellence Framework.

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Subjects

  • Counselling Psychology
  • Property Law
  • Civil Litigation
  • Word
  • Employment Law
  • Commercial Law
  • LLM
  • Project
  • Skills and Training
  • Ms Word
  • Child care
  • Business
  • Legal services
  • Litigation
  • Family Law
  • Legal practice

Course programme

Modules & assessment

  • Major Research Project in Legal PracticeThis module will support you in the preparation and submission of the Master's stage project for the LLM Legal Practice. You will be assessed through a maximum 15,000-word final thesis.
Assessment

You’ll demonstrate your understanding of your chosen research area through a 15,000-word dissertation, which you’ll normally submit by the end of March if you study full-time, or September if you study part-time.

Additional information

Course duration: 6 months full-time or 1 year part-time.
Teaching times: two Fridays from 10am-4pm in semester 1; one Friday from 10am-1pm in semester 2.
Course fees: UK & EU students, 2016/17 (per year) £3,000

International students, 2016-17 (per year) £4,500

Legal Practice (Top-Up) LLM

Price on request