Practitioner

Practitioner courses at Nottingham Law School
Planning to develop your career? Thinking about the next steps? You can broaden your knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of specialist areas at Nottingham Law School.

A legal education does not have to stop after entering the legal profession. Nottingham Law School's expertise and innovation in education can be applied to enhance the knowledge and skills of any legal practitioner with a desire to develop in their career. Highly flexible and not constrained by the academic year, we can deliver our renowned "learning by doing" approach both here and abroad. 

Our suite of postgraduate programmes provides the following:

PG Diploma in International Insolvency Law

The PG Dip in International Insolvency Law has been designed to meet the needs of insolvency professionals with little or no experience in the field of international insolvency law. Although the course is primarily aimed at insolvency professionals in developing and emerging market countries, less experienced insolvency professionals from developed countries are also encouraged to register. The course serves as an introduction to international insolvency law, and in addition to the Diploma also attracts 120 credits at Masters level. The programme is supported and endorsed by INSOL International. For further information, to download a brochure and to apply online please visit the course page.

Legal Services Regulation

In response to the radical changes in legal sector regulation and compliance brought about by the Legal Services Act 2007 we will shortly be introducing a new course: PG Cert Legal Services Regulation. It will be of particular interest to those working in the legal sector in operational or financial management positions, as compliance officers, managing partners, senior accountants or as independent consultants to legal businesses.

This programme has been designed to meet the needs of those working in the management and compliance field in the new legal services sector, working at strategic or operational level.

The aim of the programme is to consider basic risk management and regulatory compliance theory; the principles of risk management and regulatory compliance and the manner in which it informs the practice management and financial management of business in the legal sector, whether as traditional law firms, new entrants or those supplying services to the sector.

The start date for the course is provisionally mid May 2012 and further information will be available shortly. If you wish to find out more about this course please contact us by either email or telephone: 0115 848 4460.

In-house consultancy
Nottingham Law School has a considerable degree of expertise in initial training needs analysis, design and delivery of bespoke postgraduate award courses. These are designed for law firms and qualification frameworks for professional bodies and regulatory organisations across the legal services sector.

Bespoke programmes
The ability to design, deliver and assess programmes in topics relevant to the modern legal services market for those at all stages of their legal careers including (but not confined to):

• knowledge and law firm/legal services management (including a new partners' programme)
• cognitive interviewing
• advocacy (including SRA rights of audience) in a range of different fora, including arbitration
• insolvency
• drafting
• mandatory regulation
• risk management for law firms and legal services providers
• the impact of the Legal Services Act 2007
• mediation and negotiation skills, strategies and tactics
• project management and strategic planning in litigation and dispute resolution
• PSC core and electives.

Full details of these bespoke programmes can be found in our brochure

Postgraduate, professional and supported research
We offer a suite of practice-based and academic postgraduate programmes up to and including a professional doctorate, suitable for individuals wishing to enhance their skills.  If you do not wish to embark on a complete degree programme, ask about attending one or more modules or units on a continuing professional development basis.  For senior practitioners who wish to explore their practice by carrying out a supported research project, ask about opportunities to proceed directly to the dissertation or project phase of an LLM programme.

We also offer:

• the new exclusive qualifying programme for intending trade mark attorneys
• solicitors' rights of audience in the higher courts building on twenty years' experience of effective and high-level delivery. 

For further information information about any of these opportunities, please telephone +44 (0)115 848 4460 or email us.