List of abbreviations
| ABA | American Bar Association | 
| AQS | Advice Quality Standard | 
| ASA | Advice Services Alliance | 
| BIBA | British Institute of Insurance Brokers | 
| BSB | Bar Standards Board | 
| CAFCASS | Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service | 
| CDD | Customer due diligence | 
| CILEx | Chartered Institute of Legal Executives | 
| CLE | clinical legal education | 
| CLEA | Clinical Legal Education Association | 
| CLEO | Clinical Legal Education Organisation | 
| CLOCK | Community Legal Outreach Collaboration Keele | 
| COFA | Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration | 
| COLP | Compliance Officer for Legal Practice | 
| CPD | continuing professional development | 
| DBS | Disclosure and Barring Service | 
| DPA | Data Protection Act 2018 | 
| DPB | designated professional body | 
| DQR | designated qualifying regulator | 
| EA | Equality Act 2010 | 
| ECF | exceptional case funding | 
| ESA | Employment and Support Allowance | 
| EULA | end user licence agreement | 
| FCA | Financial Conduct Authority | 
| FHDRA | first hearing and dispute resolution appointment | 
| FSMA | Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 | 
| FTE | full-time equivalent | 
| GAJE | Global Alliance for Justice Education | 
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation | 
| HEI | Higher Education Institution | 
| IRAC | issue, rule, application, conclusion | 
| KIS | Key Information Set | 
| LAA | Legal Aid Agency | 
| LAFQAS | Legal Aid Franchise Quality Assurance Standard | 
| LASPO | Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 | 
| LERN | Legal Education Research Network | 
| LETR | Legal Education Training Review | 
| LO | learning outcome | 
| LPP | legal professional privilege | 
| LSA | Legal Services Act 2007 | 
| LSB | Legal Services Board | 
| LSC | Legal Services Commission | 
| MCT | multiple choice test | 
| MTCs | Minimum Terms and Conditions | 
| NINSO | Northumbria Internet and Society Research Interest Group | 
| ODR | online dispute resolution | 
| OFT | Office of Fair Trading | 
| OISC | Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner | 
| PFRs | Practice Framework Rules | 
| PII | professional indemnity insurance | 
| PIP | Personal Independent Payment | 
| PLE | public legal education | 
| POCA | Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 | 
| PSU | Personal Support Unit (known as Support Through Court since late 2019) | 
| QAA | Quality Assurance Agency | 
| QWE | qualifying work experience | 
| REL | Registered European Lawyer | 
| RFL | Registered Foreign Lawyer | 
| SAAS | Software-as-a-Service | 
| SCL | Society for Computers and Law | 
| SIIR | Solicitors Indemnity Insurance Rules | 
| SLF | student law firm | 
| SQM | Specialist Quality Mark | 
| SRA | Solicitors Regulation Authority | 
| STC | Support Through Court | 
| TACT | Terrorism Act 2000 | 
| VLC | virtual law clinic |