Master in Professional Legal Practice
This is the master for gaining access to the legal profession with the highest pass rate at the state level. A benchmark program in the training of lawyers due to its academic content, its practical methodology, its professional internship program and the great results achieved in the examination for access to the legal profession.
*Important: The University Master's in Advocacy is in the process of being transformed into the University Master's in Advocacy and Procuring. The new program will begin in September 2023 and enrollment will open in January 2023. The programme will be taught in 3 languages: Spanish, Catalan and English. 3 groups will be created, 2 of which will be taught in Catalan, Spanish and English, and 1 in Spanish and English.
The Master in Professional Legal Practice is the reference program in the training of lawyers. The fruit of collaboration between UPF, which for more than 30 years has provided first-rate training to future lawyers through its Faculty and Department of Law, the Barcelona Bar Association, which for more than 150 years has brought together the lawyers of the Catalan capital, and important firms from the world of law that, in addition, are part of the Academic Council of the master: Cuatrecasas, Garrigues, Roca Junyent, Uría Menéndez, Baker McKenzie, KPMG, and DWF-RCD.
The course trains you in the core areas of litigation, professional ethics, and business legal advice. It specializes in specific professional matters such as bankruptcy, damages, intellectual property, competition, environmental law, and real estate and urban law, among others. As a central component it includes a supervised internship.
The Master in Professional Legal Practice is a unique project that brings together university, professional, public, and private institutions, with a common objective: to provide law graduates with an excellent training that, in the current legal framework, allows them not only to pass the future official exam to gain access to the legal profession, but, above all, to face their practice of law with the maximum guarantees of success.
The Master in Professional Legal Practice is endorsed by Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Spanish university and the 15th best university in the world (of those with less than 50 years), according to the Times Higher Education ranking. In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally.
The Master in Professional Legal Practice has an academic council made up of:
- Joan Picó. Director of the Department of Law of the Pompeu Fabra University.
- Anna Maria Caballé. Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Pompeu Fabra University.
- Cristina Vallejo. Training deputy of the Barcelona Bar Association.
- Pablo Salvador. Professor of Civil Law at the Pompeu Fabra University. Lawyer and counsellor for Cuatrecasas.
- Sergio Sanchez. Lawyer. Partner at Garrigues.
- Joan Roca. Lawyer. Partner at Roca Junyent.
- Victor Ferreres. Professor of Constitutional Law at the Pompeu Fabra University. Consultant for Uría Menéndez.
- Victor Mercedes. Lawyer. Partner at Baker McKenzie.
- Agnès Granés. Lawyer. KPMG Lawyers.
- Ignasi Costas. Partner responsible for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship area and responsible for International Relations at DWF-RCD.
Collaborators:
Why choose this program
Receive a quality study plan
Its contents have been prepared by the Department and Faculty of Law of Pompeu Fabra University, by the Illustrious College of Barcelona Law and 6 of the most prestigious law firms of the city of Barcelona: Cuatrecasas, Garrigues, Roca Junyent, Uria Menéndez, Baker McKenzie, KPMG, and RCD.
Put the contents into practice
The program deals with the legal professional in a practical way with exercises, intervention in debates, and judicial simulations. At the end of the master, you will be able to pass the official exam to enter the practice of law.
Take advantage of the internship program
The master provides access to an internship program in law firms, in companies, and in public and justice administration.
Pass the exam for access to the legal profession
99% of the students of the Master in Professional Legal Practice at UPF Barcelona School of Management who took the official access exam for legal practice between 2016 and 2019 passed it.
International recognition
Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.
Specializations
The Master in Professional Legal Practice offers the possibility of continuing training with a second specialized master in two of the areas with the most demand in the market: Economic Criminal Law and Compliance, and Labour and Social Security Law.
Master in Economic Criminal Law and Compliance
Spend a few more months training to obtain a second Master in Labour and Social Security Law and complement your professional profile in legal practice in one of the areas of law with the greatest demand for professionals in the market.
Master in Labour and Social Security Law
Continue your training to obtain a second Master in Labour and Social Security Law and thus specialize your professional profile in one of the areas of law with the most professional opportunities.
Who is it for?
The Master in Professional Legal Practice is aimed at Law graduates, mainly from UPF, with the best academic profiles. It is also aimed at those graduates from other Spanish universities with very good academic records and/or who come from double degrees (Business Administration+Law, Law+Criminology, etc.). In the case of international students, due to administrative issues, students must present an accreditation of their qualifications whose process is long and complex.
Accreditations
his is an official master and has the academic recognition of the Ministry of Education of the Government of Spain. The Quality Agency of the University System of Catalonia (AQU Catalunya) has institutionally accredited the UPF-BSM. This accreditation certifies all the official university master's degrees that we teach and recognizes the quality of our educational model in accordance with the criteria of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
Curriculum
The Master in Professional Legal Practice will be taught in 3 languages: Spanish, Catalan and English. Three groups will be created, two of which will be taught in Catalan, Spanish and English, and one in Spanish and English.
The programme consists of 90 ECTS credits. A first block of 30 ECTS credits corresponds to compulsory content.
A second block of 24 ECTS credits corresponds to elective content. It is possible to enrol in more electives than the 6 required, by paying the corresponding amount that can be consulted once the enrolment is formalized.
To complete the course, you must carry out a Master's Final Project (6 ECTS credits) as well as carry out professional internships (30 ECTS credits).
Compulsory Contents (30 ECTS credits)
Master's Final Project (6 ECTS credits)
Drafting of an opinion on a matter with practical legal relevance that proves correct integration of the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired by the student throughout the training courses and the internship.
Professional internships (30 ECTS credits)
Complementary activities
The Master in Professional Legal Practice also includes the possibility of participating in practical activities and activities for personal and professional growth such as:
- Voluntary extracurricular activities: attendance at trials and custody of detainees, trial simulations, workshops organized by collaborating companies and firms, specific training in public speaking and legal English, etc.
- UPF-BSM Inside: is a group of interdisciplinary subjects (applied data, communication, creativity, innovation and project management, sustainability and leadership among others) that, if you take this program, you can access at no additional cost. They are 100% online and you can take them throughout the academic year at your own pace, as they have been designed as self-study subjects.
Qualification obtained
Once students have completed the course they will obtain the Màster Universitari en Advocacia - Máster Universitario en Abogacía official Master's Degree, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
Issuance of official Master's Degrees: The amount stipulated in the DOGC (Official Gazette of the Government of Catalonia) must be paid for the rights to issue the degree. This rate varies annually and the rate in force at the time of application for the degree will be applied.
Faculty
The faculty of the Master in Professional Legal Practice at UPF Barcelona School of Management is composed by professors of the Department and Faculty of Law of Pompeu Fabra University and professionals of the Illustrious College of Barcelona Law who work in the most prestigious law firms of the city of Barcelona.
Academic directors
Coordinator
Collaborating faculty
- Laia Folch
Responsable de formación inicial y prácticas del ICAB.
Puedes consultar los profesores de cada asignatura en el apartado Plan de Estudios
Methodology
The fundamental aim of the Master in Professional Legal Practice is that, as a future lawyer, you get the knowledge and specific skills for the exercise of your profession according to Articles 10 and 14 of the Regulation of Law 34/2006. The combination of theoretical content and practical cases and simulations allow what was learned in class to be implemented.
Content suitable for the official exam
With the compulsory subjects in the master, the aim is to guarantee adequate preparation for the official examination for access to the legal profession which, complemented with the specialization provided by the optional subjects, places the student in the best conditions to start their professional career as a lawyer.
Litigation Subjects
They make up the main content block of the master's program. From the problems posed by real cases, students will be able to apply both procedural and substantive law, and internal and community law while resolving them. The writing of legal documents (claims, complaints, appeals) and their oral defence (trial simulations and oral hearings) play an essential role in these subjects.
Other essential content
Essential contents for the practice of law are also studied, such as professional ethics, negotiation, and the organization of the office, which will play a fundamental role in the subsequent official examination.
Large number and variety of electives
The master offers 22 optional subjects.
Complementary activities
The master will organize a series of voluntary extracurricular activities during the school period: attendance at trials and custody of detainees, trial simulations, workshops organized by collaborating companies and firms, specific training (such as public speaking and legal English), etc.
Evaluation
To be awarded the corresponding master, you must pass all the subjects, the evaluation of which will depend on the corresponding professor and which may consist of continuous evaluation, the completion of a task/exercise, or a final exam. The Master's Final Project must also be approved, you must regularly attend class and you must pass the practical exercises and compulsory work, whose delivery and preparation conditions will be set, in each case, by the professionals who commission them.
Tools
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills and achieve learning which is transferable to work.
You will have:
- Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgrad Final Project (TFP)
- A personal mentor to monitor your final project (TFM or TFP)
- Digital resources to achieve transversal skills
- Interdisciplinary activities and workshops
Professional Future
The Master in Professional Legal Practice is aimed at law graduates with a good academic record who wish to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for the practice of law once they have passed the official exam. Internships can be carried out both in law firms and in companies and institutions of the public and judicial administration.
Student profile
Every year, the program of the master brings together recent law graduates, mainly from the city of Barcelona. It is therefore attracts a junior profile, with the previous experience acquired in the professional internships carried out during the Degree in Law.
Average age
Students passing the official exam for access to the profession (2016–19)
Career opportunities
To pass the master, each student must complete a curricular internship with a value of 30 ECTS credits. The internships will be full-time and will take place between the months of June and November in the law firms, companies, and institutions that collaborate with the program. The stay will be stewarded by an experienced lawyer with the supervision of a team of tutors and will aim to give the student the ability to:
- Face professional ethical problems.
- Be familiar with the operation and problems of institutions related to the practice of the legal profession
- Know the activity of other legal operators, as well as professionals related to the exercise of the profession.
- Receive updated information on the development of the profession and possible lines of activity, as well as on the instruments to manage them.
- In general, develop the skills and abilities necessary for the practice of law.
The objective of the Master in Professional Legal Practice is to provide law graduates with excellent training that, in the current legal framework, allows them not only to pass the future official exam, but, above all, to face their professional career in the legal profession with the maximum guarantees of success.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Grants and discounts
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
In addition, we collaborate with various entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links.
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