CPQ Advanced

CPQ Advanced by Law Training Centre

The CPQ Advanced stage will build upon the skills and competencies attained by learners who have completed and achieved the Foundation stage assessments. Learners who have completed their Foundation stage and their required Professional Experience requirement will become accredited CILEX Paralegals.

The Advanced course will emphasise the professional competencies expected of this stage through applied legal knowledge, decision making, legal analysis of a client’s problem and be solution focused.

Contact Law Training Centre today to discuss your own qualification journey and individual needs.

Summer Special Offer

Enrol on CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) between 1st July and 31 August and receive up to 10% off.

Course Features

The course will feature practice-oriented coaching and support from highly experienced tutors and subject experts to place the emphasis on current undertakings and methods within the legal services sector. Learners can supplement their core CILEX study with current practice awareness, dialogue, and reports on current changes within the legal sector as it affects them in their roles.

What will I learn?

Professional and Legal Skills

The aim of this module is to develop the essential professional and legal skills introduced at Foundation Stage, helping you to progress your legal career.

This module covers:

Working with internal and external clients

Communicating with clients and personal impact
Commercial considerations in legal practice
Carrying out Legal research

Dispute Resolution

The aim of this module is to give you the essential knowledge and understanding of how disputes are resolved through the litigation process or through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods.

This module covers:

The stages of a case
Alternative methods of dispute resolution
The trial process
Acting for a client

Criminal Law and Litigation

The aim of this module is to give you the essential knowledge and understanding of criminal law and its end-to-end process; how in practice a case commences; its progress through the Criminal Justice System to conclusion.

This module covers:

Key criminal offences and defences
The stages of a case
Preparing a case and representing a client
Dealing with vulnerable clients and witnesses

Property and Conveyancing

The aim of this module is to give you the essential knowledge and understanding of the underlying law relating to conveyancing and how the law relates to practice.

This module covers:

Law underpinning conveyancing
Third party rights in registered and unregistered land
The grant and assignment of a long residential lease
Conveyancing procedures
Risks and issues in conveyancing

In addition, trainees are required to select at least one optional module from:

Business and Employment Law

Family Law and Practice

Wills, Probate and Private Client

Please note – Learners on the CPQ Advanced stage are also required to evidence their competence via the Professional Experience portfolio and to complete the second of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility e-learning modules.

Trainees entering directly at this stage will also be required to complete Ethics and Professional Responsibility part 1.

How long does the qualification take?

Learners will complete CPQ stages at their own pace. The time it takes to teach each stage is dependent on the delivery model of individual training providers. However, we estimate that the following timings should be possible:

CPQ Advanced-stage: 18 months to two years

Course Fees

Law Training Centre has a partnership with Lendwise to help you fund both your course fees as well as the cost of your exam/s. Lendwise is a student loan provider through which candidates can fund their postgraduate and professional qualification studies and exam fees.

A Lendwise loan comes with a fixed interest rate for the duration of the loan and no early repayment penalties. The minimum loan amount is £2,000, and the interest rate offered will depend on the overall applicant profile and the application process is entirely online.

Please contact Lendwise directly to apply for your loan.

Course Fees