Improve your knowledge and understanding of Common Law, progressing your career as you go
Whether you are entering the paralegal profession for the first time, or looking to expand your knowledge, our Ofqual certified paralegal qualifications are ideal.
Our qualifications will help you to:
- Take your first steps to becoming a paralegal.
- Launch your paralegal career, whether within a firm or as your own business
- Gain experience to support the academic studies from your law degree

Designed around you
Our paralegal qualifications are designed to meet the often busy lives of our learners, and to get you employment-ready.Â
- Many of our training centres deliver these qualifications through distance learning, letting you study where and when you want to, fitting around your work and other commitments
- The qualifications are highly flexible. Study the units in the order you wish to and at your own pace. All our qualifications can easily be done within a year, but you have up to two years to complete each one
- Going from Level 3 to Level 7, our qualifications will increase your legal knowledge and train you how to apply that knowledge, making you ready for your next paralegal role
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With 1000s of new jobs being advertised each year, paralegals are the fastest growing profession within the legal sector. Our paralegal qualifications can help you at every step of your paralegal career, from making your first steps into the legal sector onwards.
NALP paralegal qualifications
Level 3 Certificate
An entry level qualification for those looking to become a paralegal
Level 5 Diploma
Build on the key foundational subjects required by the legal profession
Level 3 Single Unit Qualifications
Giving you the opportunity to expand your knowledge of the English legal system and make your first steps into the legal sector.
Level 4 Single Unit Courses
Giving you a sound knowledge of specific areas of English Civil Law further strengthening your legal expertise.
Level 7 Single Unit Courses
If you want to focus your legal expertise, these single unit qualifications will give you an in-depth knowledge in that legal area.
Which qualification is right for you?
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