Course Fees

All students studying an ILEX course to become a Legal Executive lawyer will have study fees and examination fees.

There are also a range of fees applicable to new and existing ILEX Students, Members and Fellows, as well as Graduates, law students and existing practitioners who apply to become members of the Institute.

If you intend studying for an ILEX qualification the cost of a study course for one year will be made up of the following:

Membership fees + study or course fees + examination fees.

For most students, the cost of completing an ILEX Course will be between £5,000 and £6,000 dependent on where and how you study.

Before gaining ILEX Fellowship status successful students will have to undertake five years continuous qualifying employment. Most ILEX students are either working in a legal environment at the time that they start their studies, or obtain employment as a trainee Legal Executive during their period of studying, and this counts towards ILEX’s qualifying employment requirements.

However, the final two years of the five-year period of qualifying employment cannot be gained until you have achieved your academic qualification, i.e. become a Member of ILEX. This means that you can complete up to three of the five years qualifying employment concurrently with your studying.

Once you have completed your qualifying employment you will then be able to apply to become a Fellow of ILEX and use the designation ‘Legal Executive’.