
Law with Legal Practice LLB (Hons)
Course Overview - Law with Legal Practice LLB (Hons)
This is a Connected Degree
Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after youve started your course.
Overview
This LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice degree offers a practical way to enter the legal profession. Youll graduate ready to work as a trainee legal executiv...
<strong>This is a Connected Degree</strong><br/><br/>Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after youve started your course.<br/><br/><strong>Overview</strong><br/><br/>This LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice degree offers a practical way to enter the legal profession. Youll graduate ready to work as a trainee legal executive and have the option to start your career with completed industry qualifications, thanks to our CILEX accredited modules.<br/><br/>This course is designed around the outcomes you’ll need to study for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), so youll cover all the foundations of legal knowledge and have plenty of opportunities to build your practical skills. You’ll be able to demonstrate more practical experience of dispute resolution, legal drafting and legal practice than on our other law courses.<br/><br/>With professional skills modules included in all levels of study, you’ll develop key solicitor skills such as negotiating, client interviewing and legal writing. And by working with real clients in our Legal Advice Clinic youll also gain three months of work experience that can count towards your qualifying work experience for the SQE.<br/><br/>If you choose to complete an optional paid placement year before or after your third year, you’ll graduate with a year of industry experience too.<br/><br/><strong>Course highlights</strong><br/><br/><br/>• Gain real-world legal practice skills in legal writing, litigation, advocacy and applied law such as business or property practice<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Help local people solve their legal issues by working in our Legal Advice Clinic, or taking our Community Lawyer module, where youll work with partners such as the British Red Cross or Citizens Advice<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Get a head start on studying for your SQE exams after graduation through teaching and assessment thats designed with these exams in mind — as well as through our partnership with Barbri, the world’s largest legal exam preparation experts<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Develop professional skills for the legal workplace in our dedicated skills module<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Benefit from teaching thats shaped by expert staff who have been practising lawyers and who understand how the legal landscape is changing<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Take a 1-year optional paid placement in a business or local law firm before or after your final year of study, with support from our Placement Team throughout the application and placement process<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>Careers and opportunities</strong><br/><br/>This course is specifically designed to maximise your employability as a future solicitor or chartered legal executive. When you graduate youll be ready to apply for work immediately as a paralegal or trainee legal executive, or go on to study for your SQE exams. Youll have lots of practical experience to talk about at job interviews.<br/><br/>Its worth noting that chartered legal executives can now become judges, coroners, advocates and partners in law firms.<br/><br/><strong>Non-legal careers</strong><br/><br/>If you decide that you dont want to become a lawyer, youll still have plenty of experience and skills to boost your future career. Law degrees are in the top 10 degrees for employability, as youll graduate with a wide range of transferable skills that will make you very employable across a range of other sectors.
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Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
3 Years
Start Date
21/09/2026
Campus
Main Site
Application Details
Provider Details
Codes/info
Course Code
M1M2
Institution Code
P80
Points of Entry
Year 1, Year 2
Entry Requirements
UCAS Tariff
Scottish Higher
Not Accepted
Access to HE Diploma
106-112 Tariff points from the Access to HE Diploma.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DMM
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
GCSE/National 4/National 5
GCSE English and mathematics at grade C/4 or above.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.
Scottish Advanced Higher
104-112 Tariff points.
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
Cambridge Pre-U score of 50-54.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.
A level
T Level
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)
104-112 points from the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate including 2 A levels, plus the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate.
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