apprenticeships in law: everything you need to know · 2017-02-13 · •describes the core...

Apprenticeships in law: everything

you need to know

Welcome

Robert Bourns, president, The Law

Society of England and Wales

Apprenticeships in Law

• Introductions

• Law firm case studies Burges Salmon, Foot Anstey and Lyons

Davidson

• SolicitorOverview of the standard and assessment

plans

• Paralegal and Chartered Legal Executive

Overview of the standards and assessment

plans

• Weston College

• Panel QnA

• Wokshops

Agenda


Legal Apprenticeships at Burges Salmon LLP

Victoria Goldsworthy


Trailblazers – new apprenticeships for the legal sector

Level 3 Paralegal (2

years)

Level 6 Chartered Legal

Executive (5 years)

Level 7 Solicitor

(6 years)

Probate technician

Conveyancing technician

Licenced conveyancer

FOOT ANSTEY APPRENTICESHIPS

SUSIE HALLIDAY

9 FEBRUARY 2017

FOOT ANSTEY LEGAL APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME

• Putting it into practice

• Day-to-day practicalities

WHAT DID WE CREATE?

TRAINING PROVIDER

INTERNAL CONSIDERSATIONS/PRACTICALITIES

• Budget

• What area of the business

• Stay close in recruitment

• Supervisors

• Support with types of tasks

• Guidance with selection choices

• Integration into the office

THANK YOU

Status: Business Confidential

Legal Apprenticeships: Lessons Learned

Katherine Howells-PriceLyons Davidson Solicitors


Background

� Involved since 2011 in development of National Occupational Standards in England, Wales and Scotland

� Long history of promoting work-based learning through CILEX and other qualifications

� …And today we have 12 legal apprentices across the company


Know what you want and why

� Why do you want apprentices?

� How will they fit in to the usual structure

� What is expected of them?

� Who will they report to?

• Train the supervisors

� Prepare, prepare, prepare and be prepared to

adapt!


Get Buy In!

� From supervisor upwards

• Why should they support the scheme?

• How does it benefit them/their dept?

• Ensure a supportive environment


Recruitment

� Where and when to advertise?

� What behaviours and competencies are you

looking for?

� Utilise your current apprentices for events


Benefits of building an apprenticeship cohort


Preventing Mistakes

� Supervision

� Case Management

� Encourage questions


IT Systems

� What IT systems will they need access to?

� Will they need any special permissions?

� Get this in place and tested early!


Plan for the future

� What happens at the end of the

apprenticeship?

Success story!

Emma Woods

� Started September 2014 – Level 4

� Finished June 2016 - distinction

� Offered permanent paralegal role

upon completion (Claimant PI)

� Worked with new apprentices in her

team


Trailblazer Apprenticeship leading

to qualification as a Solicitor

Julie Brannan

Director of Education and Training

Solicitors Regulation Authority

• Development of apprenticeship route to qualification is part of SRA’s

Training for Tomorrow programme

• Core objective- uphold public confidence in the profession, both

domestically and internationally:

� consistent and rigorous standards

� innovation and flexibility in solicitors’ training

� promotion of a broad, diverse profession

• Statement of Solicitor Competence

• Assessment of competence through the Solicitors Qualifying

Examination (SQE), subject to consultation

Training for Tomorrow

• Describes the core activities all solicitors need to be able to do

• Divided into four domains:

� Ethics, professionalism and judgment

� Technical legal practice

� Working with other people

� Managing themselves and their work

• Key activities listed for each domain and critical factors which affect the

individual’s ability to perform the activities competently

• The Apprenticeship Standard is the same as the SoSC

Statement of Solicitor Competence

(SoSC)

• Employer-led; developed by group of law firms and other legal employers

• Level 7

• 5-6 years to complete

• Assessment plan is aligned to the SQE proposals.

• SRA will be the independent, end-point assessment organisation for the

apprenticeship.

• Employers work with training providers to develop a training programme which

will prepare apprentices for the assessment

Solicitor Apprenticeship

• Assessment plan for the solicitor apprenticeship:

� On-programme formative work-based assessment against the SoSC by the

employer or training provider

� On-programme assessment of functioning legal knowledge through SQE

stage 1

� End-point assessment of practical legal skills through SQE stage 2

Solicitor Apprenticeship

• Apprenticeship route to qualification introduced within the November 2015

update of the SRA Handbook.

• First Trailblazer solicitor apprentices started September 2016.

• Second consultation on the new approach to qualification, including the SQE,

closed in January 2017.

• Decision by SRA board on the SQE expected during spring/summer 2017.

• First live SQE assessments will be no earlier than academic year 2019.

Timeline

CILEx Presentation for

Employers:

Paralegal and Chartered Legal

Executive Apprenticeships through

the Trailblazer

Introduction

• Paralegal at Level 3

• Chartered Legal Executive at Level 6

• Basic structure of all Trailblazers:

– Period of training

– Separate end point assessment which is synoptic

End Point Assessor

• CILEx has been approved as an end point assessor for both the Paralegal and Chartered Legal Executive apprenticeships

• For the Chartered Legal Executive apprenticeship, CILEx will be the only end point assessor

• For the Paralegal, although CILEx is currently the only end point assessor, there may be others in the future

Paralegal Apprenticeship

• Generic occupational standard and

assessment plan

• Paralegals can be trained in one of any

number of specialist legal areas of practice

Structure

• Training:

– Level 3 knowledge of specialist area of law and practice

– Level 3 skills: legal research and client care

– Level 3 competence: covering the required competencies for a paralegal identified in the standard

• End point assessment

– Portfolio

– 2 x timed assessments

Delivery

• Training– Delivered by a Training Provider selected by the

employer

– Training Provider must be approved by the Skills Funding Agency

• End Point Assessment– Delivered by an Assessment Organisation, separate

from the Training Provider

– Assessment Organisation selected by the Employer

– Assessment Organisation must be approved by the Skills Funding Agency for the standard

Paralegal End Point Assessments

• It’s graded:

– Pass

– Distinction

– Fail

• Can cover a wide range of different areas of

practice

Off the shelf tests

• CILEx will make available ‘off the shelf’ end point tests in:

– Civil Litigation

– Personal Injury

– Employment

– Conveyancing

– Private Client

• Where the apprentice has covered a different area of practice, CILEx will approve a suitable end point test written by the Training Provider

Delivery of the End Point Tests

• In either case, the test will be sat at the

Training Provider and then submitted to the

Assessment Organisation for marking,

moderation, standardisation and certification

• More detailed information on the policies and

procedures for administration of the end point

tests is currently being considered by the

employer group and will be available shortly

Costs for the Paralegal End Point

• Where the Employer uses an off the shelf test,

the cost will be £850

• Where the Training Provider has written a test

approved by CILEx the cost will be:

– £750 for the administration of the test and

– £100 for each submission of a test for approval

Chartered Legal Executive

• Mirrors the traditional route to qualification

• Training:

– Level 6 Knowledge, Client Care and Legal Research

skills + competence

– The academic requirements are a pre-requisite for

the regulator and must be developed through

either:

• CILEx examinations

• LL.B + Graduate Fast Track Diploma or equivalent

End Point Assessment

• Portfolio

• Case study

• Training is delivered by the Training Provider

• The end point test will be delivered by CILEx

More about end point assessment

• NOT graded

• Completed in a number of areas of legal practice including:

– Civil Litigation

– Employment

– Conveyancing

– Probate

– Criminal Litigation

– Family Litigation

Costs

• As part of the training

• CILEx membership fee

• Formative assessment costs for CILEx exams or exemptions

• End point submission fee to include:– Assessment

– Quality Assurance

– Certification

• £1150

Apprenticeships for the Law and

Professional Services Sector

Apprenticeships in law: Everything

you need to know

9 February 2017

www.weston.ac.ukChampion

Our mission: Creating Brighter Futures

• One of the largest and highest performing colleges of further and

higher education nationally

• Full range of full and part time programmes in over 40 professional and

technical sectors

• Higher Education – top quality Degrees

• Apprenticeships and Traineeships

• Judged by Ofsted as outstanding in all areas


Apprenticeships

• 1,200 apprentices from intermediate to degree level

• High Quality:

• Over 90% secure permanent employment

• High Learner Satisfaction - 95% of students rate Weston College as a

great place to study

• Reliability: Our employers rate the experience of working with Weston

College at 9.6 out of 10

• Innovation:

• Trailblazer in delivering the New Standards since 2015

• Developing the first Degree Apprenticeships in Digital and

Technology Solutions


Law and Professional Services Academy

The Objective: To meet the changing skills needs of the sector,

recognising pace of change and opportunity to innovate

• Support the continuing growth of the sector

• Create progression pathways from entry levels through to fully

qualified in alternative work-based routes

• Regulatory changes driving market competition

• Opportunities and risks created through new technologies


The Solution: Law and Professional

Services Academy

• Opens September 2017

• £18 million invested

• Industry focused facility dedicated to

meeting the sector’s skills needs

• Both traditional and work-based

Apprenticeship routes


Work based routes to qualification


Our Approach

•Providing expert advice and support for employers - simplified and easy access

•Creating long term partnerships

•Creating bespoke programmes for businesses

•Learner focus - Relentless focus on teaching, learning and assessment – celebrating achievement

•Spearhead entrepreneurship – meeting regional and national skills needs


Long term partnerships

Engaging with the Law and Professional Services Academy:

• Join our advisory board

• Developing Courses

• Providing work experience / placements

• Mentoring a student

• Guest Lecture/s

• Hosting a visit / tour / talk

• Providing live project briefs

• Sponsorship and Co-branding


Jo WatsonExecutive Director

[email protected]

01934 411 647

Lucy PopeDirector of Business Growth

[email protected]

01934 411 686

For more information on the West of England Law and Professional Services Academy contact:

Thank you

This presentation gives general information only and is not intended to be an exhaustive statement of the law. Although we have taken care over the

information, you should not rely on it as legal advice. We do not accept any liability to anyone who does rely on its content. © Burges Salmon 2016

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