Develop your legal knowledge and skills in a highly practical way, with plenty of opportunities to build real-life legal experience. Study with us and enjoy our friendly, non-elitist and non-hierarchical approach. Benefit from our highly practical approach to teaching and develop your legal knowledge and skills through problem-based learning projects, commercial awareness training and work-experience. You will also take part in client interviewing, negotiation and mooting competitions with work placements offered as prizes. Great importance is placed on work experience with ring-fenced opportunities for Reading students. You will have the chance to work with local charities and other organisations and further develop your practical legal skills through voluntary pro bono work. In addition, you will also have the option to qualify as a Gateway Assessor for the Citizens Advice Bureau. We host one of the largest pro bono programmes in the country, working with local charities and organisations, including Age Concern, Anti-Slavery International, Berkshire Witness Service, Reading Young Offenders Team, Streetlaw and Thames Valley Police. The first and second years provide the foundation of your legal knowledge and are determined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Bar Council. You can complement your legal study with modules from outside of law – for example, languages, politics, and business courses such as entrepreneurship. In your final year you can focus on your interests and select from a wide range of modules. Popular options are "Company law", "Intellectual property", "Revenue law", "Family law" and "Criminology".

University of Reading Law graduates are in high demand and very employable. As well as providing you with the first qualification for entry into the legal profession, this course gives you strong analytical, critical and persuasive skills, as well as the ability to express yourself well both on paper and in person. We have a dedicated careers adviser and a calendar full of career-orientated events. As well as CV writing, placement applications and interview techniques, we also host commercial awareness workshops and business games together with some of our business partners. Around half of our graduates take their professional exams and go on to practice law. Past students who have continued in the legal profession work for firms such as Allen & Overy, Freshfields, Clifford Chance and Boyes Turner. Others have become barristers, work for the Crown Prosecution Services, in the music and entertainment industries or for large accountancy firms such as PwC.