Professional Legal Practice Skills Leeds Beckett University

Overview

As part of this Professional Legal Practice Skills course at Leeds Beckett University , you'll:

• Start preparing to sit the externally set SQE2 (Solicitors Qualifying Examination) as part of your route to qualification as a solicitor*
• Develop your legal skills in interviewing, advocacy, case and matter analysis, legal drafting, legal research, and legal writing
• Apply the law correctly and comprehensively to given situations to meet clients' needs
• Analyse and synthesise concepts to devise realistic and coherent strategic solutions to legal problems
• Evaluate how the rule of law and ethics apply within legal, as well as broader, economic, commercial, and ethical settings
• Explore concepts of professionalism to build your understanding of the demands of professional practice

• Identify relevant issues and investigate them in depth, with a practice-based legal research project

Career Prospects

Leeds Law School's employability strategy adopts a practice-based community, promoting academic belonging and a shared purpose.

This course supports your journey to becoming a solicitor, preparing you for legal practice and the SQE2. Whether you're completing qualifying work experience or looking ahead to it, you'll develop the skills needed to succeed.

You'll be prepared for a career within a legal setting, whether that be private practice or an in-house role, in local law firms or multinational organisations. Students may already be working as a paralegal or similar role.