BPP and College of Law to fight for City LPC deal
BPP Law School is set to battle it out against the College of Law to keep the five-firm City Legal Practice Course (LPC) consortium as a client. The consortium has asked current provider BPP as well as the College, the Inns of Court School of Law and Nottingham at Kaplan this week to present their ideas for a revamped LPC.
March 02, 2007 at 06:39 AM
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BPP Law School is set to battle it out against the College of Law to keep the five-firm City Legal Practice Course (LPC) consortium as a client.
The consortium has asked current provider BPP as well as the College, the Inns of Court School of Law and Nottingham at Kaplan this week to present their ideas for a revamped LPC.
The law schools are due to pitch to the firms – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Slaughter and May, Herbert Smith, Lovells and Norton Rose – in May, with a decision due in the summer and the new course coming into effect as early as September 2008.
BPP's MBA-style consortium LPC started in September 2006 but was only ever intended to last for an initial two-year period.
The decision to put the contact out to tender was prompted by upcoming changes to the LPC which could come into effect from September 2008.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) issued a consultation paper on the subject last week (23 February) proposing changes to both the content and the structure of the course. The consultation is due to close at the end of May.
Slaughter and May training head Louise Stoker told Legal Week: "Ideally, we will set up a new course to start in 2008. All course providers will get the same information from us and we will treat them all on an equal footing."
The SRA is considering whether elective subjects should be studied separately to compulsory subjects, granting exemptions from part or parts of the LPC, as well as making the whole course more flexible.
The City LPC consortium firms have been keen to stress they have been very happy with BPP, although the decision to start a tender process is likely to raise questions about the law school's relationship with the consortium.
One training partner at a rival City firm commented: "They would not tender it unless there was the prospect to get something better – either in terms of content or price."
BPP chief executive Peter Crisp said: "The firms have been completely up-front about their plans. These are major potential changes to the LPC and we understand they need to consider their options."
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