LLM Bar Practice – financial support available

Why choose this course?

The LLM Bar Practice offers you the opportunity to enhance your profile and gain an internationally recognised qualification.

• Enhancing employability: Throughout the programme, you’ll have the opportunity to develop professional connections through our extensive employability programme and participate in a range of co-curricular activities. 
• Professional accreditation: An internationally recognised Master’s degree incorporating the vocational requirements for qualification as a Barrister of England and Wales.
• Work-related learning: Our award-winning Law Clinic covers a number of practice areas and pro bono opportunities which will enable you to put the skills you learn on the programme into practice in the community. You can choose to get involved in the law clinic as part of your LLM, which provides you with practical, real-world, client-based experience.
• Advocacy: Over 40 hours of face-to-face advocacy training by experts including Judges, Barristers and Solicitors.  You will have the opportunity to work on authentic, real-life scenarios and to practise your skills in our full-scale replica Crown Court.
• CV-enhancing activities: An extensive array of co-curricular activities which may include trial advocacy led by a former member of the judiciary, client interviewing, conferencing, debating, commercial awareness and mooting.
• Strong industry links: Hertfordshire Law School has close links with the Law Clinic and Careers Service providing you with the skills and support you need to make the most of your time on the programme and succeed in your chosen career.
• Fantastic facilities: We are one of the few providers of legal education in the country with a full-scale multi-million-pound replica Crown Courtroom which is fully equipped with the latest technology to enable you to perform your Advocacy skills and prepare you for practice.
• Teaching excellence: You will be taught by experienced practitioners in the legal field including Barristers, Solicitors and former Judges as well as academics, all of whom understand the context of the modules in practice.
• Award-winning: Pro Bono activity voted Best Contribution by a Team of Students helping vulnerable people at risk of homelessness in Hertfordshire (Law Works Student Pro Bono Awards, 2022), and ranked 3rd overall for law in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES, 2024).

Careers

The programme incorporates the vocational element of training for eligibility to be called to the Bar of England and Wales to become a Barrister.  A Master's in Law is also an internationally recognised qualification.

The programme has a strong focus on developing both professional and personal skills that will benefit you whatever your career choice.

Students on the programme will benefit from a bespoke Professional Support and Enhancement programme.

The Careers Service at Herts is committed to helping you progress in your chosen career. Hertfordshire Law School’s Employability Lead who has significant links with the legal profession. Whether it is forging links with Chambers, the Crown Prosecution Service or the legal departments of international organisations, our Director of Employability Lead is dedicated to preparing you for the next stage in your professional legal career.

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