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LLB (Hons) Law for Financial Services (In-Company)

This pathway provides second year LLB (Hons) Law and LLB (Hons) Business Law students with the opportunity to integrate legal study with full time paid professional employment in banking, insurance or investment. Upon successful completion of this route, you will graduate with an LLB (Hons) Financial Services (In-Company) degree.

If you apply and are chosen for this pathway you will undertake paid work-based learning with an employer within the financial services sector. Whilst working, you will continue to receive structured academic support from Nottingham Law School. Your study will be supported by two one-week study blocks that will underpin and enhance work-based learning.

This pathway is subject to sufficient partnering employers.

What you'll study

This pathway has a professional focus. You’ll develop key transferable skills in law and the financial services, including banking, investment and insurance.You’ll gain legal knowledge specific to the financial services sector, allowing you to apply your law degree studies to banking, investment transactions, and insurance. Our skills-focused modules apply theory to practice while developing important skills required in the workplace. The final year of University represents the start of the “learning in the workplace” period. During this time the course provides structured academic support, fostering such learning and embedding it in the academic degree. The employer retains entire responsibility for the supervision, management and control of workplace activities.

During the in-company year you will study the following modules:

In this module you will integrate your learning of the law with your workplace environment in the financial services sector and develop your expertise in relation to the application of relevant legal principles to the delivery of financial services.

The ALFS module represents one-third of the total academic study time during the in-company year. It serves to integrate your learning of the law with your workplace environment in the financial services sector. It also enables you to develop your confidence and expertise in:

  • the general legal environment surrounding the delivery of financial Services
  • the particular legal environment of your own workplace in either the insurance industry or the banking, credit or investment industry
  • the application of relevant legal principles to financial services, generally and particularly in connection with the insurance or banking, credit or investment sectors
  • the transferable intellectual and professional skills required for financial services.

The Portfolio module absorbs one-sixth of academic study time during the in-company year. The module will enable you to:

  • engage in critical reflective practice through development of, and critical reflection upon, a portfolio of your professional ‘in-company’ experiences
  • develop an aptitude for continuous personal and professional development within the workplace through portfolio development
  • develop your portfolio and exercise transferable intellectual and professional skills.

This project-based module represents one-sixth of the academic study time during the in-company year. It integrates academic learning within work-based practice. This is achieved in the context of an employer-approved applied financial services legal research project. Through academic supervision this project will:

  • enhance your knowledge and understanding of the regulatory, business, operational and organisational context of the financial services workplace and your own workplace functions
  • develop your research and communication skills and the ability to exercise academic, professional and transferable intellectual and legal skills.

Our LFSWF module spans over one-third of the academic study time during the in-company year. This module enables you to:

  • develop and apply your knowledge and understanding of laws governing financial products and those related to workplace functions in financial services
  • develop your legal knowledge and understanding to particular products / services and activities / roles selected by employers or Nottingham Law School
  • expand on the relevant transferable, intellectual and professional skills and your effective application in financial services
  • develop into a well-rounded financial services professional, and be able to appreciate the wider context of workplace activities.

Degree timeline

This degree timeline provides an overview of the teaching schedule during the in-company year.

Our students' experience

Our students have worked for a number of organisations. Find out more about the interview process, their roles and the skills they have developed during this pathway.

Funding

You will still be eligible for student loan funding by the government-funded and non-profit making Student Loans Company to meet the teaching costs of the course during the in-company year. Visit the Student Loans Company for further information and terms and conditions.

Securing your placement

Progression onto this pathway is dependent on you successfully securing your own placement. You’ll be responsible for impressing prospective employers, but our dedicated Employability team will work with and support you, and will provide plenty of advice. They will help you through all stages of the process, from submitting a good application to completing a successful interview or assessment.

View the LLB (Hons) Law for Financial Services (In-Company) brochure for further information.