The Legal Profession Admission Board (LPAB) offers the oldest law course in Australia. The Board’s long history of providing legal education has contributed to a unique and rigorous course that prepares students for legal work in many areas, including business, policy, public service, academia and advocacy. Graduates of the LPAB course are leaders in the legal profession. Originally known as the Solicitors Admission Board (SAB) and the Barristers Admission Board (BAB), the LPAB governs the accreditation for all law courses and universities in NSW. The Board’s course set the standard and shaped the curriculum against which all other law courses were measured. These highly regarded standards are maintained today through a unique collaboration between the LPAB and the Law Extension Committee (LEC) of the University of Sydney. Together they continue the exceptional teaching and examination traditions instituted by the Supreme Court of NSW prior to the first University law degrees in Australia. Graduates are unique because of the nature of the course. Taught at night and on weekends, our alumni study while working and so are prepared to meet the rigorous demands of practice. They are experienced in managing competing priorities and practiced in meeting tight deadlines. Completion of the Board’s course requires resilience, perseverance and a real hunger to join the legal profession. This characteristic coupled with the high academic standards of the course produces confident and work ready graduates. Students are taught in a lecture based program by leaders in their field, drawn from the ranks of academia and the profession. Lecturers include authors of leading textbooks, and barristers arguing the cases which will shape the law of tomorrow. For the purposes of admission as a lawyer, graduates of the Board’s course and accredited university law schools are equivalent. Generations of judges, solicitors and barristers have been educated in this way for over 170 years.