LPC AND LLM COURSE STRUCTURE AT BPP

MODULES Employment Law: Generally a very easy and relatable subject. Many of us have some form of work experience, and even if we don’t, we have definitely heard stories from others. The employment law chapters are quite short, the Core modules: As your main modules on the LPC, you will be studying these during stage 1 of your course. Core modules: 1. Business Law and Practice 2. Property Law and Practice 3. Civil Litigation 4. Criminal Litigation Elective modules: During stage 2 of the LPC, after you have finished your core modules, you will be starting your 3 electives. You will need to pick your electives early on during stage 1, so look out for an announcement for this from your university. Make sure that you don’t miss the deadline. If you are doing the course part time: you can choose to do two electives in one term instead of one to finish your course earlier. This shouldn’t be too difficult to do as the electives usually take half the input as a core module with merely 10 SGSs each. You will need to pick 3 electives from the below options: 1. Advanced Commercial Litigation 2. Advanced Commercial Property 3. Advanced Criminal Litigation 4. Corporate Finance 5. Debt Finance 6. Employment Law 7. Equity Finance 8. Family Law 9. Immigration Law 10. Insurance Law 11. Intellectual Property and Commercial Law 12. International Trades and Transactions 13. Media and Entertainment Law 14. Medical Negligence and Personal Injury 15. Private Acquisitions 16. Private Client (Wills, Probate and Estate Planning) Which electives to pick? *Disclaimer: this is simply my view of each elective based on my own experience.* There are three strategies in picking an elective: 1. You can pick electives your training contract providers want (if you already have a training contract you will know which ones are these and if not, then you need to research which electives your target firms prefer to make you application stronger) 2. You can pick electives that are easier so you can score better overall – some electives are easier to learn than others so you can score in the high 70s-80s without much effort. The few extra percentage markings you can get with these modules will round your final result up so pick these subjects if you have not done so well in your core modules 3. You can also simply pick subjects you think you would enjoy – a lot of people (me included), get better results if they enjoy doing what they love. There may be subjects you are more drawn to due to: • What you can achieve with the subject – eg. help other by studying family law, immigration and medical • The way the subject works – eg. is it a more practical subject? Does it rely a lot on interpretation as in family law or is it more structured such as advanced commercial litigation? • The topic discussed – eg. if you enjoy watching finance videos, why not pick debt finance or corporate finance? Advanced Commercial Litigation: A very easy topic for scoring well. Definitely pick this module if you are good at following structures and you enjoyed learning about the Rome Convention. If you follow the structures that they give you in the SGSs, it is very easy to score in the high 70s-80s without much effort. Corporate Finance/Debt Finance: Pick one of these if you aim to get into Corporate/Commercial/Banking