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The LLM Professional Legal Practice course provides a comprehensive course of study that will provide you with the knowledge and understanding of the legal principles and professional practice, as they relate to the work of a Solicitor and CILEX Lawyer and a master’s level award.
Year of entry
Location
Coventry University (Coventry)
Study mode
Full-time
Part-time
Online/Blended
Duration
1 year full-time
2 years part-time
Course code
FBLT183
Start date
September 2025
January 2026
At Coventry University, we continuously review the courses we offer to ensure we reflect industry-relevant emerging best practice and technology. As a result, this course is undergoing continuous improvement assessment and will be launched with a renewed curriculum starting in September 2025. Module content and titles will be updated. Course title, learning outcomes and assessments may also change. We expect our new curriculum to be fully updated by January 2025. Please return to this page to see the final course details.
The course aims to:
The course will be of interest to anyone seeking a career in professional legal practice who is a law graduate or has completed Coventry University’s PGCert in Principles of Law or a similar course.
On completion of the course, students are required to arrange and take the applicable examination with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), if they wish to become a solicitor, or with CILEX if they wish to become a CILEX lawyer and pay the associated fee.
The course is designed to prepare students to sit the Solicitors Qualifying Examination Part 1 and Part 2 – this is not embedded in the course. Students will have to sit the exam independently directly with the SRA.
The course is also designed to prepare students to sit the CILEX Lawyer professional examinations (CPQ) – this is not embedded in the course. Students will have to sit the exam independently directly with CILEX.
This course will provide you with:
Coventry Law School is a member of the International Association of Law Schools, an association of around 160 law schools from over 55 countries, representing around 7,500 law faculty members. Having this status allows you to access a variety of international experiences, including with our partner institutions across the world.
Coventry Law School is currently a member of the European Law Faculties Association with over 250 members from Europe and beyond.
Coventry Law School is currently a member of British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association, one of the largest Technology Law associations in Europe.
These memberships are renewed annually and there is currently no intentions for these memberships to laps. However if our membership is not renewed for any reason, we would notify applicants and students as soon as possible.
Coventry Law School collaborates with the Central England Law Centre in order to offer a powerful professional element to your learning, through our Law Employment and Advocacy clinics. Students who participate in the clinics get involved with everything that the solicitors do at the Law Centre with supervisors who are currently working in practice and experts in specific areas of law. They get hands-on-experience doing reserved legal activities, providing supervised advice and assistance to members of the public.
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
The LLM Professional Legal Practice course can be taken as a 1 year full-time or 2 year part-time course.
Due to the modular design of the programme, there is a high degree of flexibility in how the course can be undertaken. Whilst we would like to give you all the information about our part-time offering here, it is tailored for each course each year depending on the number of part-time applicants. Therefore, the part-time teaching arrangements vary. Please request information about studying this course part-time.
The course will be delivered in groups by dedicated subject specialist tutors who are in or have recently been engaged in professional practice. Teaching will be delivered through a combination of online content and highly interactive workshop sessions that can be conducted face-to-face or online.
Teaching sessions will involve the use of role plays, live case studies, the use of real-world data and special legal databases, simulations and presentations. Learning throughout the course will be support by our virtual learning environment, which is currently Aula.
On this course you can normally expect 2 hours of on demand online lectures, 2 x 2 hour synchronous workshops, 2 hours guided and 12 hours self-guided study per module. During your project semester, you can expect 2 hours of on demand lectures, a 2-hour workshop, 1-hour live Q and A session, 14 hours of guided activities such as action learning sets, and 12 hours of self-guided learning.
As an innovative and enterprising institution, the University may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the University may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods.
Since COVID-19, we have delivered our courses in a variety of forms, in line with public authority guidance, decisions, or orders and we will continue to adapt our delivery as appropriate. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.
The LLM Professional Legal Practice is designed to prepare you for the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE) and CILEX professional level (CPQ). These are external examinations that you will arrange and sit independently having completed the course here at Coventry (additional fees will apply). Currently the external examinations consist of:
In order to prepare you to do this, it is essential that the assessment on the LLM Professional Legal Practice reflects what you will encounter in those external exams. Consequently, the course is assessed by MCQ test and portfolio that may comprise of MCQ test, short answer question and skills-based activities.
Throughout the course you will be encouraged to recognise the influence of different cultural and international perspectives to the application of the law and legal concepts in the UK. Modules such as Business Law and Practice, Dispute Resolution and Wills, Administration of Estates and Trusts use cases that have an international aspect thereby helping you to recognise and contextualise the global dimension to your studies.
As well as having an international focus throughout your studies, the course aims to offer opportunities to attend field trips overseas2 and to engage in collaborative online international learning (COIL) projects with students from universities elsewhere in the world. Where available, these opportunities stand to enhance your ability to examine issues from several perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of how issues would be addressed in different legal systems.
Student | Full-time | Part-time |
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UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£11,200 per year |
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EU | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£11,200 per year with EU Support Bursary** 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£20,050 per year without EU Support Bursary** |
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International | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£20,050 per year |
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For advice and guidance on tuition fees3 and student loans visit our Postgraduate Finance page and see the university's Tuition Fee and Refund Terms and Conditions.
We offer a range of International scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.
Tuition fees cover the cost of your teaching, assessments, facilities and support services. There may be additional costs not covered by this fee such as accommodation and living costs, recommended reading books, stationery, printing and re-assessments should you need them.
The following are additional costs not included in the tuition fees:
The rights of Irish residents to study in the UK are preserved under the Common Travel Area arrangement. If you are an Irish student and meet the residency criteria, you can study in England, pay the same level of tuition fees as English students and utilise the Tuition Fee Loan.
Following the UK's exit from the European Union, we are offering financial support to all eligible EU students who wish to study an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree with us full-time. This bursary will be used to offset the cost of your tuition fees to bring them in line with that of UK students. Students studying a degree with a foundation year with us are not eligible for the bursary.
Our learning facilities4, which include modern classrooms, open learning spaces and our Moot Room, allow you the chance to get the most out of your learning experience.
Our Moot Room gives you the opportunity to develop those vital and practical legal skills. You can practise your legal skills in a realistic setting, as well as having the chance to take part in mooting competitions.
Use the Legal Clinic to develop your practical legal skills and help you stand out in your future career. You will have access to 'real' clients and work alongside trained solicitors and lawyers.
Find out more about how Coventry University can kick start your legal career through our preparation courses.
On successful completion of the course, you will be able to:
This course is designed to facilitate a graduate moving into a career as either a solicitor or CILEX Lawyer and as such, prepares you for the professional level assessments in these two legal career destinations.
On successful completion of the course, it is anticipated that you will arrange and undertake the assessments for your chosen career destination and once successfully completed transition into your chosen field of professional legal practice, subject to meeting the requirements of the relevant regulatory bodies.
In addition to working as a solicitor or CILEX Lawyer, a wide variety of other career destinations are available to graduates due to the highly transferable nature of the skills developed on the course.
Previous law graduates from Coventry Law School have gone on to work at a wide variety of organisations and firms including:
After completion of this course, further graduate level study such as a PhD may be considered.