The Legal Practice Course (LPC) is a vocational training course where you will develop greater awareness of the fundamental legal and practical skills required by lawyers working in a firm like Herbert Smith, such as the application of contract and company law to clients, the conduct of negotiations and legal drafting.

Herbert Smith supports an innovative LPC run by BPP Law School, which is specifically designed to prepare our future trainees for life in a City law firm.

The course has been developed by five of the City’s leading law firms who have worked together with BPP, one of the UK’s top law and business schools. The other firms are Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Lovells, Norton Rose and Slaughter and May.


Attend the Legal Practice Course
The City LPC is designed to help students learn how to handle corporate and finance transactions, real estate transactions and commercial dispute resolution matters, based around client examples.

As well as allowing you to focus on these core practice areas, our client-centric model will also enable you to look at a number of specialist areas including EU and competition, employment, private equity and tax law. This provides a perspective on the different requirements of cross-border and domestic transactions.

The course embodies elements of an MBA qualification to give you a broad grounding in business and finance as well as providing a full grasp of the black letter law that applies to practice in the City. The course is also designed to allow a high level of individual guidance and attention. Emphasis will be placed on developing client and business skills.


Course content
As we are committed to provide you with the most relevant training, we ask you to take Private Acquisitions, Debt Finance and Equity Finance as your three elective subjects. These subjects will provide you with a strong grounding in preparation for your training contract with Herbert Smith.


Find out more about the course at http://www.bpp.com/law/City/City_LPC.html