The PSC is the mandatory course for all trainee solicitors and others wishing to qualify as solicitors. It consists of 3 core modules. In addition, trainees must complete 24 hours of electives, of which at least 12 hours must be face to face tuition. FILEX and some Magistrates' Court Clerks are exempt from the electives.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority now stipulates that the Client Care & Professional Standards module must not be completed until a trainee has served at least 6 months full-time or full-time equivalent in a training contract. This means, for example, that a trainee might choose to attend day 1 of the module early in their training contract and then attend day 2 later. We are happy to advise trainees on this and other requirements.

We have been a Law Society/SRA accredited provider of the PSC since the inception of the course. We pride ourselves on offering a practical, relevant and engaging programme, and just some of the benefits of our offering include:
- Specialist trainers with considerable experience as practitioners and trainers
- Our experienced team of trainers are led by Course Director, John Loosemore (founder of Kaplan Altior).
- 100% examination success rate on many of our courses.
- Flexible and convenient course format
- Wide and varied choice of electives
- Public courses and, in addition, provisions for the Public Sector, City firms and firms who wish to run the course in house. 
- Great range of venues, with excellent transport links

If you are interested in running an in house PSC or TLP please email Barbara Anderson at babs.anderson@kaplan.co.uk.

We offer the PSC in venues across England and Wales, but if you can't find course dates for the venue you are looking for (e.g Plymouth, Brighton, Reading) please contact us to find out more. Email jenna.williams@kaplan.co.uk or kelly.morris@kaplan.co.uk and they will be happy to help you.

Kaplan Altior also offer a Trainee Litigation Programme based in London. The programme involves one week of classroom based tuition, and one week of supervised work at the Kaplan Legal Advice centre. For more information, please visit our Training Courses page and click on Trainee Litigation Programme.

Once you have completed the PSC and qualified, you may be interested in Kaplan Altior's Management Course Stage 1 - please click here for more information.