Train Your Team
Build capability within your organisation.
Develop the legal knowledge, professional skills and qualifications your people need to progress.
Brightlink works with employers to identify suitable training routes, support employees throughout their learning and help organisations build legal capability for the future.
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Develop your existing team
Build legal knowledge and capability in the people already working within your organisation.
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Create clearer progression
Give employees structured development routes that can support greater responsibility and career progression.
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Strengthen legal capability
Develop practical knowledge and professional skills that can support your organisation’s legal work.
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Flexible learning
Use online learning, workshops and tutor support designed to work alongside employment.
CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ)
A flexible qualification route for employees at different stages of their legal career.
Foundation
Level 3- Suitable broadly for
- People new to legal study or without existing legal qualifications, including employees already working in legal services who want recognised qualifications to progress.
- Typical duration
- Around 18 months.
- Brightlink tuition
- £1,810
- Potential organisational value
- Build foundational legal knowledge and support progression towards paralegal-level work, subject to the relevant requirements.
Advanced
Level 5- Starting point
- CPQ Foundation Stage or the relevant accepted starting point.
- Typical duration
- Around 2 years.
- Brightlink tuition
- £3,397
- Potential organisational value
- Support employees developing towards more advanced paralegal, fee-earning or greater case and workload responsibility.
Professional
Level 6- Starting point
- CPQ Foundation and Advanced or CGQ Stage 1. Other access points may apply, talk to us for more information.
- Typical duration
- Around 10 to 12 months.
- Brightlink tuition
- £1,950
- Potential organisational value
- Support progression towards higher professional capability and, where relevant, qualification as a CILEX Lawyer, subject to qualification, regulatory, professional and experience requirements.
Please note: CILEX membership and course registration fees are payable directly to CILEX in addition to Brightlink course fees, regardless of which training provider you study with.
Brightlink can help employers understand:
- Which CPQ stage may be relevant
- How the employee’s existing qualifications affect their starting point
- How study can align with the employee’s role
- Relevant professional-experience requirements
- What workplace support may be useful
- Whether the CILEX route is right for their organisation
Welsh Legal Services Apprenticeships
Brightlink supports Level 3 and Level 5 Welsh Legal Services Apprenticeships. For eligible learners, training is funded by the Welsh Government. The employer funds exam resits.
Eligibility depends on conditions including:
- Legal or legally aligned employment
- At least 16 working hours per week
- At least the applicable National Minimum Wage
- At least 51% of working time in Wales
- Existing qualifications, which can affect eligibility
- Other apprenticeship requirements, including relevant CILEX membership requirements
Not every employee in Wales will automatically qualify. Eligibility is assessed individually against these conditions.
Level 3
Level 3For eligible employees beginning their legal qualification journey.
- Duration
- Around 2 years.
- Funding
- Welsh Government funded for eligible learners.
- Employer responsibility
- Exam resits are employer funded.
- Provide a workplace supervisor
- Commit to support for learner study
- Provide opportunities to evidence work based learning
- Compliance
- Potential progression
- Paralegal-level development and, where relevant, progression towards Level 5, subject to the relevant requirements.
Level 5
Level 5Relevant starting point: CPQ Foundation or the Level 3 Welsh Legal Services Apprenticeship, subject to eligibility.
- Duration
- Around 2 years.
- Funding
- Welsh Government funded for eligible learners.
- Employer responsibility
- Exam resits are employer funded.
- Provide a workplace supervisor
- Commit to support for learner study
- Provide opportunities to evidence work based learning
- Compliance
- Potential progression
- Advanced Paralegal-level development and further professional progression, subject to the relevant requirements.
The apprenticeship is not simply an online course. The employee’s workplace matters:
- The employee continues in relevant legal or legally aligned employment throughout.
- Training needs to align with the employee’s day-to-day workplace development.
- Appropriate employer involvement and workplace support helps the apprenticeship succeed.
- The employer is responsible for funding any exam resits.
Tailored learning for your organisation.
Beyond a single standard qualification route, Brightlink can work with employers on learning needs that reflect the organisation as a whole.
Brightlink can discuss tailored learning and group-delivery options where these are appropriate to the organisation’s needs.
- Bespoke courses and workshops
- Group learning
- Aligning work and learning
- Training needs analysis
- Learning and development review and planning
- Advice and guidance for employers
More Than a Course Provider
A partner in developing your people.
Direct access to the founder
Employers can speak directly with Brightlink’s founder about legal education, qualification routes and organisational learning needs.
Make the system easier to understand
Brightlink can help you understand qualification routes, entry points, progression and the implications for different employees.
Connect learning with the workplace
We can help you think about how an employee’s learning and professional development relate to their role and responsibilities.
Responsive human support
Employers can speak to people who understand legal education and the learners they are supporting.
What Could This Help You Achieve?
Build capability for the future.
Build in-house expertise
Develop legal knowledge and professional capability within your existing workforce.
Create clearer career pathways
Give employees a clearer understanding of how learning and qualifications can support progression.
Develop future capability
Use structured learning and development to support the skills your organisation will need over time.
Support succession planning
Develop existing people so that your organisation has a stronger internal pipeline for future roles and responsibilities.
Coming Early 2027
SQE training with Brightlink.
Brightlink is preparing a new SQE programme for early 2027. If your organisation is considering future solicitor development, talk to Brightlink about what is being planned.
Ready to Develop Your Team?
Talk to us about your training needs.
Tell us about your people, their current experience and what your organisation is trying to achieve. We’ll help you understand the training routes and support that may be relevant.