CPQ Professional
The CPQ Professional stage is the final stage of the CPQ. Learners must complete a mandatory professional skills module, consisting of a work based project together with an additional optional module in the chosen specialist area for practice rights, and is underpinned by the choice made at the Advanced Stage. Learners who have completed a LLB Law Degree/GDL and the Legal Practice Course can enter the CPQ at this stage however must also complete the associated CPQ Advanced Stage module and two Ethics and Professional Responsibility modules.
Learners on the CPQ Professional stage are required to evidence their competence via their Professional Experience portfolio. At this stage, their professional competence will also be assessed by CILEX Regulation, thus allowing a trainee to be authorised to practice in a specialist area of law.
Suitable for: Learners who have completed CPQ Advanced (CILEX Advanced Paralegals), LPC, BPTC or equivalent.
Outcome: Learners who complete this level of qualification will become CILEX Lawyers. CILEX Lawyer is a professional designation that confers the same practice rights in the chosen specialism as those enjoyed by a solicitor.
NOTE: Completion of a CRL approved advocacy course is a requirement to achieve CILEX Lawyer status in the litigation pathways; Dispute Resolution/Civil Litigation; Family Litigation and Criminal Litigation.