Grow your organisation through
CILEX qualifications
Our qualifications deliver work-ready legal professionals at every level,
from paralegals through to specialist lawyers.
About CILEX Qualifications
With flexible entry and exit points, CILEX qualifications allow employees to learn and qualify at their own pace, with professional experience built in to ensure they’re quickly making a positive impact to your organisation.
We offer the CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) for those looking to become a CILEX Paralegal or CILEX Lawyer, and the CILEX Graduate Qualification (CGQ) for law graduates looking to progress to CILEX Lawyer.
There is also the CILEX Certificate in Legal Practice, an introductory legal qualification for those not in legal work but wishing to explore that option, or in a junior role, such as a legal assistant, who want to increase their legal knowledge or develop into a full paralegal role in the future.
How CILEX qualifications benefit your organisation?
- Create work-ready lawyers: CILEX qualifications are focused on practical legal and business skills, designed to align with actual job roles.
- Grow specialist skills: Learners specialise in an area of law from the start, rather than being a generalist qualification as seen in the solicitor route.
- Increase revenue opportunities: Increase your chargeable rates for formally qualified legal professionals.
- Increase diversity: With no prior academic qualifications required, you’ll increase diversity in your team and be better able to meet client needs.
- Attract and retain employees: Learners gain a standalone qualification and professional recognition at the end of each stage, so you can adapt training needs to individuals.
Clive Thomas
Watkins & Gunn
I think it’s really important for team members to obtain a professional qualification. It allows them to gain advancement within the firm as it gives them greater practicing rights within the work that they do. It also gives them the personal confidence to push on within their careers and it gives clients the confidence that they’re dealing with an expert practitioner.”
Sarah Johnson
Fraser Dawbarns
Ensuring our staff receive quality training is really important to us as a firm and CILEX deliver that for us. The CILEX route allows us to have a hands-on approach in the training and development of our staff”.
Mark Gray
Foot Anstey
The CPQ is a pathway into law which increases the opportunities and diversity of our people. The CPQ offers a flexible way to qualify and many of our people study alongside existing roles to further their careers. The 3 stages of the CPQ means there are now opportunities to obtain qualifications around those who wish to become career Paralegals. We look forward to working with CILEX to develop our future talent.”
Donna Hart
The Family Law Company
I recommend the CILEX route to my team because I was fortunate enough to qualify through CILEX where I may not have had that opportunity in law. And we like to employ a lot of people from backgrounds that may not have that opportunity and encourage them. As an employer, I think it’s really important to show your commitment to your staff, and I would highly recommend that employers, where possible, can support their staff in the new CILEX CPQ qualification. I think the legal landscape has changed significantly and I’m really excited about the new qualifications are offering to put CILEX Lawyers on par with solicitors.”
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