ILSPA's Legal Secretaries Diploma is a Level 3 qualification designed to provide you with both the legal knowledge and practical skills needed to secure employment or progress in your current career. The Diploma offers flexibility, allowing you to choose the units that best suit your workplace and career goals. Through this comprehensive and professionally recognised course, you can master general legal procedures, develop key legal secretary skills, learn how AI is used in legal practice, and gain a solid foundation across a range of areas of law. You will also enhance your document production skills through the drafting and completion of legal correspondence, forms, and professional documents.
Classes are held via Zoom on Wednesdays and Thursdays, with both daytime and evening sessions available, and typically last between one and one and a half hours. Before the classes begin, you will receive a timetable allowing you to choose the sessions that suit you best and join whenever you wish to attend. The classes are part of a blended learning experience. In addition to attending the live sessions, you’ll complete online coursework, designed to reinforce and build on what you learn in class. Video content will also be available within the course materials, allowing you to revisit lesson topics in your own time.
You will be taught about law and legal procedures, be able to interact with your tutor and connect with a group of Students. Students regularly provide us with feedback on how much they have enjoyed the classes and have found our tutors to be friendly and helpful. As well as receiving support from your tutor, you can contact our team for help with your coursework through our online portal.
Your study material, coursework and Student resources will be available through the Student and Member area of our website, which you will have access to once enrolled. You will have up to one year to submit your coursework, although most Students complete it within three to six months.
The syllabus includes the following subjects, with the flexibility to select two core units and three legal units:
Core Unit Options
- General Legal Procedures
- Key Legal Secretary Skills
- AI in Legal Practice
- The English Legal System
Legal Unit Options
- Civil Litigation
- Corporate and Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Family Law
- Land Law and Conveyancing
- Law of Contract and Tort
- Wills, Probate and Administration
Please note, the core skills units are not covered in class and should be studied in the learner's own time.
A Glossary of Legal Terminology is also available to Students and can be found in the Student resources section of our Student and Member area.
Additional Benefits: Guidance to secure employment, one year's free Membership of The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs, eligibility for a TOTUM Student Discount card.
Student Review:
I took the course with no previous legal experience, but looking for a career change, and I was not disappointed! Seamus is a great tutor, he explains things very clearly, goes at a pace suitable for everyone and has a good sense of humour to keep things interesting. The course content exceeded my expectations and I certainly feel prepared and confident to start applying for roles within the legal sector. I would recommend this course to anyone with an interest in law. Rachel Clement, Reading.
