Legal Services

Course content, course specifications, outlines, teaching and assessment resources for the Legal Services T Level. 

Core content

Students will develop an understanding of a broad range of issues relevant to the sector, including:

• the business environment
• careers within the legal profession
• regulation
• professionalism and ethics
• security and risk
• equality, diversity and inclusion requirements
• third party professional services
• the fundamentals of law
• the fundamentals of financial accounting
• an awareness of digital and emerging technology, digital transformation and digital tools
• data driven innovation, analytics and design thinking
• research skills
• project and change management approaches in legal contexts

Options to specialise

In addition to the core content, each student will also complete at least one module of occupation-specific content:

• legal services assistant - business, finance and employment
• legal services assistant - crime, criminal justice and social welfare

Detailed course outline

Download the course outline from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.