Master´s Degree in Legal Practice and Representation

• Graduates will be able to recognize in the elaboration of procedural documents, in interrogations and in expert evidence, the techniques aimed at investigating and establishing the facts in the different types of proceedings.
• Graduates will be able to describe in detail the different interest composition techniques.
• Graduates will be able to identify the different responsibilities linked to practicing the profession, including the basic functioning of free legal assistance and the promotion of the social responsibility of the person who practices as lawyer or court attorney.
• Graduates will be able to recognize the situations of conflict of interests that can take place in legal practice.
• Graduates will be able to identify the most relevant conflict resolution techniques in each situation and context.
• Graduates will be able to formulate the determining requirements of benefit and organization for legal counsel and procedural representation.
• Graduates may determine the administrative or judicial authority and the proceeding action to defend clients' rights.
• Graduates may recognize the appropriate legal instrument to represent the interested parties before third parties, before public administrations and before judicial bodies.
• Graduates will be able to identify the legal acts that require, for their effectiveness, notarial intervention and those that need registration.

A real correspondence has been sought between the proposed generic competencies, with those developed in similar educational entities, in other countries in the area of ​​influence, especially in the EU. It is evident that this relationship has been found in the identity between subjects taught and studied in the different training systems and the competence objectives that are projected. Likewise, the Benchmark Statements for Master's Degree of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) of the United Kingdom have been consulted.

• Graduates will be able to correctly and adequately apply the specialized knowledge acquired in the degree in their professional before courts or public authorities, as well as in advisory functions, respecting democratic principles and values, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Graduates may properly use alternative methods to the judicial route for the resolution of legal conflicts.
• Graduates will be able to carry out the acts of communication effectively and correctly with the parties in the process.
• Graduates will be able to differentiate, clearly and precisely, the private interests that legal professionals represent from those of a public nature, whose execution is entrusted by the law and the courts, for effective collaboration with the courts in the execution of judicial decisions.
• Graduates will be able to apply the most relevant conflict resolution techniques to each situation and context, establish the scope of professional secrecy and preserve the independence of judgement.
• Graduates may use the judicial procedures, protocols, systems and applications that are required by acts of communication and cooperation with the Administration of Justice, with special attention to those of an electronic, computer and telematic nature.
• Graduates will be able to create teamwork techniques aimed at achieving greater efficiency through access to sources of information, knowledge of languages, knowledge management and management of applied techniques and tools.
• Graduates may plan the organizational structure of the legal office based on the human resources that make it up and the type of clients to whom it is addressed.
• Graduates may carry out professional work in specialized and interdisciplinary teams.

• Graduates will effectively know and use the right to defense and the procedural application of clients within the framework of the national and international judicial protection systems.
• Graduates will know and adequately use the procedural techniques in the execution of the acts that take place in the different judicial orders, with special attention to the terms, minutes, execution and means of enforcement.
• Graduates may incorporate the deontological rights and duties of a lawyer or attorney in their relations with clients, other parties, courts, authorities and other professionals.
• Graduates will know and apply the most pertinent techniques in each case aimed at the identification and liquidation of customs duties, tax obligations, the constitution of judicial deposits and attention to whatever expenses and costs are necessary to guarantee the effective judicial protection of the rights of the represented persons.
• Graduates may create the organizational structure of the legal office based on the human resources that make it up and the type of clients to whom it is addressed, and establish an economic and fiscal management protocol for the professional office, compliance and protection of occupational risks and personal data.
• Graduates will be able to express themselves orally and in writing, appropriately within the context and the needs or special characteristics of each client, and extract legal consequences from the facts in an argued manner, in all procedural areas.
• Graduates will be able to interact appropriately with citizens, institutions and other professional people.

The following documentation must be sent by post or courier to the Postgraduate Admissions Section:

• Completed Admission Application.
• Updated Curriculum Vitae.
• Photocopy of DNI (only Spanish candidates) or passport (only foreign candidates).
• Photocopy of Transcript / Academic record (completed or in the last year of the university degree).
• Two passport-size, color photographs.
• Document that proves the candidate has a B2 Intermediate Level in Spanish (for non-Spanish speakers who wish to study the Master's degree).

Once all the documentation has been received, and it is verified that the submitted degree grants access to a Master's degree, as established in Arts. 15 and 16 of Royal Decree 1393/2007, candidates must take the proficiency test of the chosen program, which is carried out by the Department of University Development.

The test is taken in person in Madrid and in various Spanish cities and, additionally, it can be taken remotely for those applicants residing outside of Spain.

The proficiency test, which intends to analyze the student's capacity to complete the Master's program, assesses the applicant's profile and abilities, so it does not require prior preparation and allows the student to receive more comprehensive and personalized advice on his/her academic and professional options.

The proficiency test consists of three parts. The first is an aptitude test that assesses the maturity of the student, as well as analyzes the reasons that lead him/her to study at this University. The second is a Spanish level test, where appropriate, for those students who cannot prove that they have the required level, in which the Intermediate Level must be reached; and the third phase is a face-to-face or telephone interview with the Coordinator of the Program in which he/she is enrolling, or with the Department Head.

Once the aforementioned proficiency test has been passed, the candidate holds a personal interview with the Coordinator of the Program in which he/she is enrolling or with the Department Head.

2.- After the admission tests, the Admissions Committee analyzes the results and the documentation submitted by the candidate, and approves or rejects the application. The candidate receives written information about his/her admission, about the process of formalizing his/her enrollment in the Program, and about the final documentation to be submitted, duly authenticated.

3.- Formalize registration and enrollment

After registration, the candidate proceeds to formalize his/her enrollment, choosing the courses online and completing the required information. Throughout the process, the candidate is in constant contact with the Department of University Development and with the academic managers of the chosen Program, who will advise him/her on any questions.

The weighting of the different phases are as follows:

- Admission test: 25%

- Interview: 25%

- Academic record of previous studies: 50%