Legal Management: online course with internship agreement
Legal Management is an online course in in-house legal support across the EU. It covers contract formation and lifecycle management, consumer and IP law, GDPR tasks such as DSARs and breach notification, the digital acquis, and corporate compliance. It suits future paralegals, legal executives and contract managers. Study 100 % online for 180 days. An internship agreement (convenio de prácticas) is included. Price: €200.
- 180 days of access
- 100 % online, at your own pace
- Level: beginner · No prior legal training assumed
- Assessment: 10 quizzes (50 questions) and a final project
- Internship agreement included
- Certificate with a verifiable QR code
- Languages: Spanish, English, French
- Price: €200
Who it is for
- People aiming for paralegal, legal executive or contract manager roles in a company's legal department
- Legal assistants who want to understand which tasks are legal support and which are reserved for lawyers
- Office or operations staff who handle contracts, renewals or customer complaints
- Professionals working with EU entities in Ireland, the Netherlands or Luxembourg
What do you need to start?
Prior knowledge
- No prior legal knowledge needed: the course starts with legal systems and sources of law
- Comfortable reading long documents in English, such as EU regulations and directives
- Basic organisation skills for tracking dates, versions and files
Software and equipment
- A computer with an internet connection
- No specific contract-management (CLM) product is required or provided: the course treats CLM as capabilities that a well-run repository can also deliver
What you'll be able to do
- Sort workplace tasks into legal support versus reserved legal activity limited to solicitors, advocaten or avocats
- Map each contract stage (draft, negotiate, sign, store, renew/terminate) to its task and risk
- Build a renewal-deadline calendar using end date minus notice period to rank which contract needs action first
- Calculate a 14-day withdrawal deadline, including split shipments, missing information and buyers outside the EU/EEA
- Match a brand, shape, invention or written work to trademark, design, patent or copyright and its registration route
- Distinguish EU regulations from directives and judge whether an instrument already binds a company in a given country
- Separate a data subject access request from a 72-hour breach notification and handle each correctly
- Identify where a cross-border consumer complaint can be pursued now that the EU ODR platform has closed
Skills you will practise
- Contract lifecycle management
- Renewal-deadline calendars
- Clause libraries
- EU consumer withdrawal rights
- EUTM, designs and patents
- GDPR: ROPA and DSARs
- 72-hour breach notification
- NIS2, DORA and AI Act
- AML/KYC and sanctions
- Whistleblowing channels
Syllabus
- The in-house legal support role across the EU — Paralegal, legal executive and contract manager as national labels for the same work, and the boundary with reserved legal activity.
- Law, legal systems and sources of law in Europe — Why common-law and civil-law systems treat court rulings and codes differently, and how this affects legal-support work across EU countries.
- The EU legal order — Primacy, direct effect, regulations versus directives and the preliminary reference procedure, applied to whether an EU act already binds a company.
- Contract law on an EU frame — Contract formation through offer, acceptance and cause, grounds that undo a contract, applicable law under Rome I, and EU sale-of-goods directives.
- Contract management end to end: negotiate, record, optimise — The five-stage contract lifecycle, clause libraries, central e-signed repositories, CLM capabilities and renewal tracking based on notice periods.
- Consumer and commercial law in the single market — The 14-day withdrawal right and its exceptions, unfair commercial practices versus unfair contract terms, and cross-border complaint routes.
- Intellectual and industrial property in the EU — Trademark, design, patent and copyright: subject matter, duration, routes via EUIPO and EPO, the 2024 design package and the Unitary Patent.
- Data protection in practice — GDPR legal bases, records of processing (ROPA), access requests, the 72-hour breach deadline and international data transfers.
- The digital acquis — What the AI Act, DSA, DMA, Data Act, NIS2 and DORA require and how they reach a company's day-to-day work.
- Corporate compliance — Whistleblowing channels, AML/KYC and sanctions checks, and entity management for companies in Ireland and Luxembourg.
Internship agreement
With this course, an intern could support an in-house legal department or a contracts team by preparing contract drafts from approved clauses, maintaining a contract repository and renewal calendar, or logging access requests and data processing records. Other suitable tasks include drafting replies to consumer withdrawal queries, assisting with KYC file reviews or compiling material for company board packs.
The internship can run at the same time as the course, within the 180 days of access.
Frequently asked questions
Will the Legal Management course qualify me to give legal advice as a lawyer?
No. The Legal Management course prepares you for in-house legal-support roles such as paralegal, legal executive or contract manager. These titles are not protected. Giving independent legal advice under your own name, or representing someone in formal proceedings, is reserved for regulated lawyers holding a protected title, such as a solicitor, barrister, advocaat or avocat. The course teaches you where that line falls so that you can work safely within it.
What could I actually do during the internship, and who finds the company?
You find the host company yourself. The school then issues the internship agreement and its annex, which the company signs electronically, usually within one to two working days. Suitable placements include an in-house legal department or a contracts team. Tasks could include maintaining a contract repository and renewal calendar, preparing drafts from a clause library, logging GDPR access requests or helping with KYC and compliance files.
Which laws and EU instruments does the course cover?
The course covers the GDPR, including ROPA, access requests, 72-hour breach notification and international transfers. It also covers Rome I and Directives 2019/771, 2019/770, 2005/29/EC and 93/13/EEC. Further topics are the EU trademark and design system via EUIPO, European and Unitary Patents via the EPO and the UPC, and the AI Act, DSA, DMA, Data Act, NIS2 and DORA. The final module deals with whistleblowing, AML/KYC, sanctions and entity management in Ireland and Luxembourg.
Do I need to learn a specific contract-management software to work in this field?
Not necessarily. A common belief is that contract lifecycle management (CLM) means buying and mastering one particular product. The course presents CLM as a set of capabilities: searchability, deadline alerts and version control. Different tools can provide these, and at small scale a well-run central repository can do the same. What matters most is tracking each contract's real action deadline, which is the end date minus the notice period.
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Content updated: 07/10/2026