Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is legal services about?

    3. Key definitions

    4. Key legislation

    1. Overview of legal regulation

    2. → Overview of legal regulation MIND MAP

    3. The regulators and reserved legal activities

    4. → The regulators and reserved legal activities MIND MAP

    5. PRACTISE MCQs: Legal regulation

    1. Overview of SRA Standards and Regulations

    2. Solicitors Regulation Authority

    3. → Solicitors Regulation Authority MIND MAP

    4. SRA Principles

    5. SRA Codes of Conduct

    6. Maintaining trust and acting fairly

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

    8. → Dispute resolution MIND MAP

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

    10. Referrals and introductions

    11. Confidentiality and disclosure

    12. Conflicts of Interest

    13. → Conflicts of Interest MIND MAP

    14. Cooperation and accountability

    15. Advertising and transparency

    16. Managing a law firm

    17. PRACTISE MCQs: SRA Standards and Regulations

    1. Overview of equality and diversity

    2. → Overview of equality and diversity MIND MAP

    3. The SRA Standards

    4. The Equality Act 2010

    5. The public sector equality duty

    6. → The public sector equality duty MIND MAP

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Equality and diversity

    1. Overview of anti-money laundering

    2. What is money laundering?

    3. Assessing risk factors

    4. → Assessing risk factors MIND MAP

    5. Proceeds of Crime Act offences

    6. → Proceeds of Crime Act offences MIND MAP

    7. Client due diligence

    8. PRACTISE MCQs: Anti-money laundering

    1. Overview of financial services regulation

    2. The FSMA framework

    3. The general prohibition

    4. → The general prohibition MIND MAP

    5. Financial promotions

    6. → Financial promotions MIND MAP

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Financial services regulation

    1. Overview of funding options for legal services

    2. Types of fee arrangements

    3. → Types of fee arrangements MIND MAP

    4. Legal aid

    5. Other funding options

    6. Funding information in engagement letters

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Funding options for legal services

    1. Instructions

    2. Legal services MOCK EXAMS

Legal services

  • 57 lessons
  • 35 minutes of video content
  • 12 mind maps

Legal services, made simple

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Instructors

Jake Schogger

Co-founder, Lawyer & Education Expert

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 published eight books covering career development and legal education (including two best-sellers), worked extensively as a career coach, and delivered countless 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, Senior Lawyer & Academic Author

James is a highly experienced solicitor and academic legal author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells, where he worked for years in their Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Insurance team. After stints in Hong Kong, Munich, and working as an M&A Underwriter, James moved in-house and is currently Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at Insurtech scale-up Cuvva.

James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he published 42 critically-acclaimed revision guides for postgraduate law courses, which have helped tens of thousands of students through their exams.

Connect with James on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jamrichardson

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 legal study guides and books.

  • 15 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

  • Sophisticated mind maps and impactful 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

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