CILEX and Bede Professional Services

Bede Professional Services works in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX). Bede is currently the only training provider north of Leeds that offers these bespoke qualifications into legal practice and one of eleven in the whole country.

CILEX are a professional body who offers its members flexible routes to qualification, campaigns for better working permissions for CILEX legal professionals and provides ongoing support and representation for members post-qualification.

Bede Professional Services offers a wide range of legal training programmes in collaboration with CILEX. These include the CILEX Professional Qualifications, starting at Foundation Level right through to Professional Level to become a CILEX lawyer, The CILEX Graduate Route to becoming a CILEX Lawyer and the CILEX Certificate in Legal Practice.

Bede Professional Services also works with the Institute of Apprenticeships to deliver high quality training in law and legal services. We currently offer the Paralegal Apprenticeship at Level 3, the Chartered Legal Executive Apprenticeship at Level 6 (for non-contentious law) and the Chartered Legal Executive Apprenticeship at Level 7 (for contentious areas of law).

Employer Relationships

Bede Professional Services works closely with employers to deliver training designed to upskill their workforce in a variety of legal disciplines, including, but not limited to, conveyancing, probate, family and civil litigation.

Some of the employers we currently work with are: