(Hons) Law with Foundation Year University of Derby

Overview

At (Hons) Law with Foundation Year from University of Derby you will develop all the key skills required to succeed in the legal sector - including drafting, advocacy, interviewing and negotation.

The highlights

• You can choose to take a generic LLB or pursue one of our specialist LLB pathways in Company and Commercial Law, International and Comparative Law, International Business Law or Social and Public Policy
• Develop all the key skills required to succeed in the legal sector - including drafting, advocacy, interviewing and negotiation
• Our tuition reaches the highest professional standards: this is a qualifying law degree which meets the criteria set by the Bar Standards Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority, which puts you on the path to a career as a solicitor or barrister 
• We're networked into the legal profession, which opens up exciting opportunities for work internships and professional mentoring
• Through our Student Legal Advice Centre, you can gain practical experience by helping people who might otherwise find it hard to access justice support and advice
• Specialist modules will enhance your skills in entrepreneurship, creative thinking, problem-solving, team working, business acumen and digital technology, broadening your career scope further still

• For those interested in becoming a solicitor, the route to qualification is changing. At Derby Law School we are working hard to ensure that the necessary changes are made to our undergraduate and postgraduate courses to provide our students with maximum opportunity and flexibility to further their legal career.

Careers

Our LLB (Hons) graduates go on to take up roles as barristers, solicitors, paralegals and chartered legal executives and can be found working in private practice, the Crown Prosecution Service, the courts, law centres, the police service, local and national government.

Completion of the LLB represents the end of the academic stage of your training. To become a solicitor or barrister, you must then continue to complete the vocational stage of your training:

• If you wish to become a solicitor, you will need to complete the Legal Practice Course (LPC), or Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). Our graduates are highly sought after by solicitors’ firms because of their practical skills underpinned by academic rigour. At Derby, we offer the LLM LPC, which equips you with both a masters qualification and the LPC. We are currently developing an SQE provision.
• If you wish to become a barrister, you must take a one-year full-time or two-year part-time Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC). Our students are particularly successful at winning substantial scholarships for the BPTC, which is testimony to the calibre of teaching we offer. Please note, we do not offer the BPTC at the University of Derby