Helping you achieve your goals
At CILEX Law School, we deliver exceptional legal education and professional development for learners at every stage of their careers, regardless of their previous academic attainment. Our purpose is to help realise CILEX’s progressive vision for the profession as a whole and to broaden access to legal careers.
Over decades of delivering distance learning courses, including delivering apprenticeship programmes since 2013, we have developed an approach that combines first-class online teaching resources – including extensive use of digital assets – with live and streamed online classes, masterclasses and workshops. Our course content and delivery focus on helping our students develop the skills to be able to apply technical expertise to real-world, work and client-related situations.
As a result, we develop legal professionals who are ready to make an immediate impact in their workplaces, adding value to their employers’ businesses and delivering better, more empathetic and more business-focused service to their clients.
More than a training provider
At CILEX Law School we go beyond training to deliver a rounded legal education that combines technical expertise with practical skills and behaviours and an understanding of the role and responsibilities of legal professionals in a fast-changing world.
We have been delivering high-quality legal education for nearly 40 years across a variety of channels. Our courses and learning resources are developed by experienced legal academics and practising specialists. Their expertise in both the technical aspects of legal practice and its practical application in the workplace provide our learners with a rounded legal education.
We have designed our courses to offer learners the flexibility to combine studying and learning with ongoing work and personal commitments. Learners can begin their courses whenever it suits them and their employers, progress at their own pace and take assessments. Our blended learning approach allows students to decide when and where they study and to learn in different ways, from using live and interactive events – including an extensive rolling programme of skills workshops and masterclasses – to accessing streamed resources.
We focus on developing our students as working legal professionals, ready to make an immediate impact. So, our courses emphasise practical skills as well as knowledge, and aim to develop the behaviours and attributes that are most relevant and useful in the working environment. That means our learners are ready to add value for their employers and clients sooner, and equipped to take their careers further, faster.
Our students – more than 3,000 at any one time – are drawn from a wide range of backgrounds, regardless of their previous academic attainment. Joining this diverse community, our learners enjoy a wide range of opportunities to engage with their peers around the country, build their own networks, share learning and revision, and engage in debates and forums to refine their thinking and hone their skills.
Established nearly 40 years ago, we have trained tens of thousands of legal professionals who are now working at every level of the legal profession, including as partners in law firms and judges. We have consistently delivered market-leading pass rates for CILEX qualifications.
Getting advice
Whether you are an employer or a prospective student, before you enrol with us we want you to understand all your options so that you make the most appropriate deccisions around course selection. For students this will include taking account of your previous educational and employment experience. We recommend that both employers and students read the course pages and review the level of study and what is involved.
Please contact us for advice on course selection, or to confirm your choice.
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