This degree offers you the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence before you advance to stage one of your honours degree.You can choose to take a generic LLB or pursue one of our specialist LLB pathways in Company and Commercial Law, International and Comparative Law, International Business Law or Social and Public Policy.Develop all the key skills required to succeed in the legal sector - including drafting, advocacy, interviewing and negotiation.Through our Student Legal Advice Centre, you can gain practical experience by helping people who might otherwise find it hard to access justice support and advice.Specialist modules will enhance your skills in entrepreneurship, creative thinking, problem-solving, team working, business acumen and digital technology, broadening your career scope further still.
Our LLB (Hons) graduates go on to take up roles as barristers, solicitors, paralegals and chartered legal executives and can be found working in private practice, the Crown Prosecution Service, the courts, law centres, the police service, local and national government.
Even if you do not want to become a legal practitioner, the LLB acts as a stepping stone to careers in broader areas. Legal skills ensure you can make a strategic contribution in many professions including the civil service, investment banking, management and tax consultancy, compliance, insurance, HR, politics, town planning, construction, publishing and education. They will also prove helpful if you want to launch your own business.
Our Careers and Employment Service will provide you with support from day one of your course to ensure you leave Derby as a work-ready graduate industry aware, motivated and enterprising. Throughout your studies, youll also benefit from our Personal Development Planning (PDP) scheme which enables you to reflect on your learning and develop your career ambitions.
The support continues once youve completed your course too: you are entitled to further help and guidance from the Careers and Employment Service for up to three years after leaving the University.
