Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is legal services about? [JAMES SHOULD WE JUST DELETE THIS LESSON, GIVEN THE OVERLAP WITH THE NEXT LESSON (FOR WHICH THE STORYBOARD / VIDEO IS MORE DEVELOPED)? OR IS THERE A WAY OF EXPLAINING THE COURSE BRIEFLY WITHOUT THE DUPLICATION?]

    3. Key definitions [FINISH WHEN COURSE COMPLETED]

    4. Key legislation

    1. Overview of legal regulation

    2. The regulators and reserved legal activities

    3. PRACTISE MCQs: Legal regulation

    1. Overview of SRA Standards and Regulations

    2. Solicitors Regulation Authority

    3. SRA Principles

    4. SRA Codes of Conduct

    5. Maintaining trust and acting fairly

    6. Dispute resolution and proceedings before courts, tribunals and inquiries

    7. Client care, service and competence, and client money

    8. Referrals and introductions

    9. Confidentiality and disclosure

    10. Conflicts of Interest

    11. Cooperation and accountability

    12. Advertising and transparency

    13. Managing a law firm

    14. PRACTISE MCQs: SRA Standards and Regulations

    1. Overview of equality and diversity

    2. The SRA Standards

    3. The Equality Act 2010

    4. The public sector equality duty

    5. PRACTISE MCQs: Equality and diversity

    1. Overview of anti-money laundering

    2. What is money laundering?

    3. Assessing risk factors

    4. Proceeds of Crime Act offences

    5. Client due diligence

    6. PRACTISE MCQs: Anti-money laundering

    1. Overview of financial services regulation

    2. The FSMA framework

    3. The general prohibition

    4. Financial promotions

    5. PRACTISE MCQs: Financial services regulation

Business law

  • 45 lessons
  • 50 minutes of video content

Instructors

Jake Schogger

Co-founder & Lawyer

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy. He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also worked extensively as a career coach, and continues to deliver employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK. Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

James Richardson

Co-founder & Lawyer

James is a highly experienced solicitor and author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells. After a few years in their Commercial Litigation and Insurance team, James moved to the City to work as an underwriter on M&A deals. James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he wrote or co-wrote 42 different books for law students across the spectrum of graduate and postgraduate law courses. He now is Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at a motor insurtech scaleup called Cuvva, which he joined as first in-house counsel shortly after their Series A fundraise.

Why choose us?

In short, because our courses have been created and delivered by experienced lawyers and tutors, including lawyers who have trained and practiced at leading international law firms, managed legal teams, and authored and sold hundreds of thousands of study guides and books.

  • 18 on-demand academic and skills courses, consolidating the core functioning legal knowledge required by the SRA into easily-digestible, bite-sized chunks

  • Thousands of MCQs, each with detailed explanations of why the answers are correct or incorrect.

  • Hundreds of animated videos to explain the more complex concepts in simple, engaging ways

  • Countless flow charts, mindmaps and tables to bring topics to life, and make them easier to remember

  • Three tiers of mock exams, including topic-specific, course-specific, and SQE-wide MCQ assessments.

  • Insider insights into how concepts work in practice, hundreds of definitions, and countless worked examples, all colour-coded to support memorisation.

  • Includes a consolidated glossary of key definitions from throughout the course, as well as links to the key legislation mentioned.

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