A small proportion of students may have their fees and some living expenses paid for by future employers under a training contract.
Skills comprise advocacy, interviewing and advising, writing, drafting and research, solicitors' accounts, wills and administration and taxation.
In the shorter second part of the course, students select their "Elective" modules from a list chosen by the providing institution.
These include: professional conduct, restricted activities under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, business accounts and taxation.
LPC providers are inspected by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, commonly referred to as the SRA, with the intention of maintaining high standards throughout the sector.
Upon securing and commencing a training contract the recipient individual gets their fees paid through Law Society funds.
It is not uncommon for law firms to provide sponsorship to LPC students[4] as part of a job offer.
[13][14] In August 2018, the SRA announced that Kaplan had been granted the contract to develop and run the exam for eight years.