The consortium behind the City Legal Practice Course (LPC) has collapsed, with five of the eight firms securing a deal to use BPP Law School exclusively as their LPC provider, Legal Week can reveal.

Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, Lovells and Norton Rose have signed an agreement to use BPP as their sole LPC provider when the three-way contract with Nottingham Law School and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (OILP) ends in June 2006.