Legal skills

Our dedicated Legal Skills Team supports you to develop the skills you need to achieve your potential.

Tailored support for undergraduate and postgraduate law students

  • Academic skills including efficient reading, note-taking, time-management, developing your writing and dissertation support (from choosing a topic, to researching and writing it up)
  • Legal scholarship including using online and library-based legal resources, referencing, legal reasoning and argumentation, criticality and tackling exam and tutorial questions with confidence
  • Professional and employability skills including client interviewing, reflective practice, advocacy, links with careers resources and professional experience, professional identity, self-care and well-being
  • Personalised support tailored to your year group
  • Moodle sites with a wealth of information, tips and links to wider university support

The legal skills programme caters for all students throughout the academic year, offering talks, seminars and workshops on a wide variety of topics to support your development and enhance your academic experience.

Find out more

There will be more information about the legal skills programme, and an introduction to the Legal Skills Team, as part of your induction programme.

View the dedicated legal skills Moodle pages (you will have access to Moodle after completing your online registration):

 

 

Faculty of Social Sciences

Law

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