Anyone done the LPC at BPP?

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I have offers from both the college of Law and BPP to do the LPC. I need to give one of them an answer ASAP as I think registration may be this week!

I have a few friends who went to COL and they are very positive about it.

I am however actually leaning more towards BPP, because they have an elective on Intellectual Property, and that is the area I most interested in.

COL cover IP within their commercial law elective, so I am not sure that would definitely be missing out if I went with the COL.

I was wondering if anyone here could help me make up my mind?

I will be doing the LPC part time, if that makes any difference.
 
I am biased on this matter and have to say COL as I studied both the GDL & LPC there. I choose the commercial law elective and it covered IP in great detail, not sure why BPP finds it fit to have one separate elective and more importantly with commercial law we covered other areas of law besides just IP.
 
They are both top law schools and there isn't much difference between them from the perspective of employers. I done the IP elective at BPP and it was the easiest exam by a long way. The Business Law module at BPP is huge and 2 exams for it are very challenging!
 
My TLA l33tage isn't as good as yours. I once used TCP on a cut if that helps?
 
I've a green in the ITIL and a membership of OCC to the ITSC. I've submitted to the WPA and am overseeing the MPS.

Sorry, can't help you.
 
I would go for CoL. It's where I am going to do my GDL and it's where I'd go for the LPC.

I'd say the only advantage for BPP in your case is the 'evidence' on your cv when you said you did a module in IP rather than a module which incorporated IP.

Best of luck!
 
What's the current situation with training contracts? I've heard it has been incredibly difficult to get one for the past few years (unsuprisingly) and a few firms have even paid off people they had given contracts to, to take out a year and come back next year.

Is it picking up?
 
I know people who went to both and got jobs in the top City firms so I think they are pretty much universally well respected, when I was looking into them I got a slight idea that the BPP course was a bit more 'corporate' orientated, but then as I say, there are loads of College of Law graduates I know working for the big corporate firms, so that's probably more a marketing perception than any real finding.
 
I ended up choosing BPP, based on nothing in particular!

When I did my GDL (2003 Nottingham), BPP was rated higher than College of Law. I think that they are considered much the same now, but there is probably a lingering sub-concious prejudice towards BPP in my mind.
I also thought that I might prefer the closed book exams at BPP.
 
TS7 said:
What's the current situation with training contracts? I've heard it has been incredibly difficult to get one for the past few years (unsuprisingly) and a few firms have even paid off people they had given contracts to, to take out a year and come back next year.

Is it picking up?
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I graduated from the LPC in 2008 and still applying for training contracts...
 
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