Post-qualification

Your intense training doesn’t end when you qualify. There’s a focus on continued professional development throughout the firm, with a particular emphasis on legal expertise, practice knowledge and business skills.

After qualification, emphasis is placed on developing business and management skills together with training for your chosen practice stream. We also support the ongoing advancement of legal skills within specific practice areas, and our legal education programmes will provide resources on the law, and legal developments within your particular practice stream.

Foundation programmes for newly qualified lawyers will give you a more in-depth understanding of the work encountered in your practice area. Foundation events often involve delegates from around the world getting together for a three-to-five day training course. They provide a valuable opportunity to meet colleagues from other offices and to participate in an intensive, practice-specific training programme.

Practice area training programmes

Each of our practice areas has a distinct programme for its lawyers. These combine legal training and skills courses. Examples include:

Professional Essentials

• Anti-money laundering
• Essentials of law firm finance
• Ethics and professional conduct

Commercial Skills

• Understanding corporate professional statements
• Effective written communication
• Drafting
• Successful negotiating

Business Development

• Practical business development
• Developing and managing client relationships

People Management

• Your role as a manager of people
• Becoming a leader

Public Speaking, Personal Impact and Communication

• Developing personal impact
• Effective public speaking

Hogan Lovells and Cass Business Programme For Lawyers (BPL)

Each practice area training programme also forms the initial phase of the Hogan Lovells Cass Business Programme for Lawyers (BPL). Believed to be the first training of its kind offered by an international law firm in alliance with a business school, the BPL comprises progressive training as follows:

• Business Foundations: An intensive introductory programme of business training, covering the main business issues affecting law firm clients.
• Business Masterclasses: Including three electives selected for their particular relevance to lawyers.