| For students who have completed a law degree, you can go on to complete the LPC. For students who have completed a non-law degree, you will be required to complete the GDL course, followed by the LPC. (Both of which take one year to complete on a full-time basis).
“Being a non-law graduate as well as mature, I was initially apprehensive about being able to fit in at Martineau. I was proved quite wrong; the firm positively encourages diversity and within my own trainee intake, there is a wide spread of age, background and experience.”
Tiffany Lathe, Trainee Solicitor
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LPC
Martineau do not specify at which institution you should complete your LPC. This is a one year course giving you the skills to combine your academic knowledge with practical know-how. The course enables you to perform effectively as a trainee solicitor when you start your training contract. The emphasis is on the practical skills of being a solicitor and the courses tend to be workshop and assessment orientated rather than academic lectures. There is, of course, the option to specialise to a certain extent with a range of optional subjects.
Compulsory Subjects:
- Business Law and Practice
- Civil and Criminal Litigation
- Property Law and Practice
Core Subjects
- Business and Solicitors’ Accounts
- European Union Law
- Human Rights
- Probate and Administration of Estates
- Professional Conduct and Client Care
- Revenue Law
Skills
- Advocacy
- Interviewing and Advising
- Practical Legal Research
- Problem Solving and IT
- Writing and Drafting
Choice of Electives
Students will be required to choose 3 electives in their final term of the course. Martineau specify that our trainees choose commercial property and two others from the following list. We will discuss the choice of electives with each trainee at the time of selection.
- Acquisitions and Group Structures
- Commercial Law (commercial contracts, competition law, intellectual property)
- Corporate Finance
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Employment Law and Practice
- Private Client: Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning
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GDL
The GDL is a one year conversion course for non-law graduates enabling you to then complete the LPC.
The GDL gives an understanding of English law on the social and economic environment in which it operates. It is an intensive and demanding programme and focuses on the seven ‘Foundations of Legal Knowledge’:
- Contract
- Tort
- Criminal Law
- Equity and the Law of Trusts
- European Union Law
- Land Law
- Public Law
You will also complete a module on ‘Preparing for Practice’ which is designed to provide you with practical, skills-based training in real work situations.
ILEX
The Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) route appeals to people already in legal employment and they may qualify as a Legal Executive whilst working. Legal Executives are qualified lawyers, working alongside solicitors and barristers.
Students undertake the Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law, followed by the Level 6 Higher Diploma in Law to qualify as a Trainee Legal Executive and become a member of ILEX. Upon completion of a further 2 years work experience you are recognised as a Fellow of ILEX and equivalent to a solicitor.
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