Business and Management

Business: Legal Services T Level

In Brief

Start Date / Duration

This course begins in September 2025 and runs for two years.

Entry requirements

  • A minimum of five GCSEs including English and Maths at GCSE grade 4 or above.
  • Must be below the age of 18 at time of enrolment.

You will achieve

Level 3 Legal Services T level.

All Year 2 T Level students achieved an additional qualification in payroll

Course Code

FBMS

Course overview

Our T Level in Legal Services is designed with employers to provide industry-specific skills. Covering topics such as business environment, legal professions, industry regulations, law fundamentals and sector-relevant technology. The T Level includes 315 hours of industry placement, providing practical knowledge and real workplace experience to prepare you for a career in Legal Services.

Course content

To achieve this qualification, you’ll need to complete two components: a Core Component and an Occupational Specialism.

Core Components include:

  • The business environment
  • Careers within legal professions
  • Industry regulations
  • Professionalism and ethics/equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Security and risk
  • Professional services
  • Fundamentals of law
  • Fundamentals of financial accounting
  • Sector-relevant technology
  • Data driven innovation/analytics and design thinking
  • Research skills
  • Project/change management and administration
  • The Legal Services sector

Specialism Module

In addition to the core content, you will also complete a module of  an occupation-specific content

  • Legal services assistant – business, finance and employment

Employer Set Project:
The employer-set project ensures you have the opportunity to combine core knowledge and skills to develop a substantial piece of work in response to an employer set brief. The employer-set project forms part of the Technical Qualification and is a separate part of the T Level programme to the Industry Placement.

You will be assessed by completing a written examination and an externally set project.

In addition, you must complete an industry placement, lasting a minimum of 315 hours.

You could progress onto university-level study including Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs), a Higher Apprenticeship or degree or go straight into employment. Potential job roles after studying this course could include:

  • Court Usher
  • Legal Secretary
  • Paralegal

See what careers are available in the Business sector. Use our online careers tool, Career Coach, to find out what your next steps could be.

How much does the course cost?

This course is fully funded.

Business: Legal Services T Level

View other course in Business and Management
Skip to content