Law with Business

This is a Connected Degree

Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course.

Overview

Develop the skills and knowledge of a law degree alongside a broad understanding of business. Explore how law relates to industry, and how industry operates within the law.

This course is ideal if you're considering a career in corporate law, one of the most highly paid sectors of law (Prospects 2021), and will equip you with the leadership skills you need to succeed as a business professional.

You’ll learn core aspects of the legal framework that impacts business and organisations, such as corporate commercial law and contract law, and use facilities including our replica courtroom to practise your skills in a realistic environment.

You’ll apply your learning in practical settings throughout the course — with initiatives such as our Community Lawyer module where you’ll have the opportunity to put your learning into practice with live client work.

If you choose to take an optional paid placement year before or after your third year, you’ll graduate with a year’s experience in industry too.

Course highlights

• Complement your law studies with a strong foundation in key business areas such as managing people in organisations, and business strategy

• Apply your learning in community settings, gaining real-world business and legal practice skills

• Choose the Law in Practice module to gain 3 months of work experience that can count towards your qualifying work experience for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE)

• Be fully prepared for your SQE through our partnership with Barbri, the world’s largest legal exam preparation experts

• Complete a paid placement year before your after your final year of study

New Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE)

The route to qualifying as a solicitor has changed for new applicants.

If you accept an offer on this course after 21 September 2021 you'll need to take the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) after you graduate to qualify as a solicitor. The content and mode of assessment of many of our modules provide a good foundation for further specific SQE preparation.

If you completed or started this course, accepted an offer of a place, or paid a non-refundable deposit (international students only) before 21 September 2021 (inclusive) you can choose to take either the new SQE or the Legal Practice Course (LPC) after graduation.

Careers and opportunities

Law is an incredibly flexible degree. When you graduate you'll be ready to take your next step to train as a solicitor, a barrister or a Chartered Legal Executive.

Law degrees are in the top 10 degrees for employability. You'll graduate with a wide range of transferable skills that will make you very employable across a range of other sectors. Your knowledge of business will be particularly helpful when applying for roles within corporate law or business management.

Graduates of this course have gone on to work for companies such as:

• ABN Amro Bank

• Oracle

• Barlow Robbins Solicitors

• Moss & Coleman Solicitors

• Phaidon International (recruitment)

• Zurich Insurance

• Digital Advertising Consultants (DAC)

• Wansbroughs Solicitors

• GSK (GlaxoSmithKline)

• Travers Smith LLP

Graduates of this course have secured jobs as:

• trainee solicitor

• paralegal

• recruitment consultant

• business development manager

• project management consultant

• compliance officer

• estate agent

• teacher (post 16)

After you leave the University, you can get help, advice and support for up to 5 years from our Careers and Employability service as you advance in your career.

Course Modules

The University of Portsmouth is passionate about creating career-focused modules that do more than support your studies, they empower your academic journey and prepare you for what comes next.

We design modules that have:

• Clear themes and skills development as you progress through each year
• Assessments that feel meaningful, often based on real-world tasks rather than isolated exams
• Career-enhancing opportunities such as placements, live projects, enterprise and volunteering

For a full list of the modules you will study on this course, please visit the link to the course page.

Placement year (optional)

On this course, you can do an optional work placement year to get valuable experience working in industry. We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.

We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies. Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

https://www.port.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate/llb-hons-law-with-business#modules