Law with Professional Legal Practice

Law with professional legal practice combines the academic rigour of a qualifying law degree with a deliberate focus on the practical skills that legal careers actually demand. Understanding the law, its principles, its reasoning, and its application, is the foundation, but translating that knowledge into effective professional practice requires additional skills: client management, legal research, drafting, and the ability to navigate real situations with competing interests and uncertain facts.

The three-year full-time Law with Professional Legal Practice LLB at Keele University builds a foundation of legal knowledge while advancing your practical legal skills from client interviewing and research through to the professional competencies that employers in law firms and related organisations value. The programme is explicitly designed to help prepare you for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, which is now the principal route to qualification as a solicitor in England and Wales. A sandwich year and work placement give you direct professional experience in legal settings before you graduate, while the year abroad option allows you to experience law from a different national perspective.

With a typical entry tariff of 120 points, the programme combines academic content with practical application in a way that makes it particularly suitable for those who know they want to go into legal practice. Graduates are well placed to proceed to SQE preparation and solicitor training, barrister training, or legal roles in companies, public bodies, and the voluntary sector. Many also pursue postgraduate study in specialist areas of law.