Birmingham Training Contract
Since opening the Birmingham office in 2015, we’ve built a consistently profitable and strong legal capability, working in corporate, litigation, real estate, and real estate finance.
Over your training contract, you’ll rotate through four different seats. You’ll build on your skills as you go, learning how to deliver level-headed advice to clients and deepen your commercial instincts and sector expertise.
Your seats will take place across a variety of practice groups within the Birmingham office. Each of these will last six months and will help you scope out where your interests lie and which area best matches your developing skill set.
Applications open: 18 September 2023
2025 Training Contract:
Applications close: 31 January 2024.
2026 Training Contract:
Applications close: 31 March 2024.
Salaries:
Year one - £32,000
Year two - £35,000
Upon qualification - £75,000
The key traits of every Hogan Lovells lawyer
Intellect and intellectual curiosity
We challenge conventional thinking and that often means doing work with little precedent. You’ll need to be ambitious and able to look beyond the obvious to deliver something unique and exceptional. We also look for a strong academic record from GCSE onwards up to a 2.1 across your degree and above (or equivalent).
Commercial awareness
Clients need us to be their trusted advisors across their business. You’ll need to be comfortable speaking their language and interested in how business works.
Communication and interpersonal skills
When working with clients it’s important to be able to communicate in both a clear and concise way. Good verbal and written communication skills are a big part of being a successful lawyer.
Team working & building relationships
No one can do what we do alone. You’ll need to relish being part of a team, where everyone pitches in and achieves great things as a collective.
Resilience
You’ll have a rigorous attention to detail, be calm in the face of complexity and deadlines and happy to put in extra hours if that’s what it takes to deliver exceptional work. You’ll need to be comfortable adapting to new surroundings, respond to cultural nuances and tackle the unpredictable with confidence.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the qualification route?
Legal Practice Course (LPC)
All our trainee lawyers take the accelerated LPC at BPP University.
You’ll study in Birmingham and benefit from the social events and presentations we run at our Birmingham office.
What financial assistance do you offer?
Financial assistance*
We’ll pick up the bill for all your course fees. We’ll also pay you a maintenance grant of £7,000 to support you in your studies.
*We don’t offer retrospective funding though if you’ve started or completed the LPC before accepting an offer from us.
Can I apply to both Birmingham and London?
We ask you to submit just one training contract application per year, so we recommend that you apply to either Birmingham or London.
How many trainees do you hire per year?
We currently recruit two trainees to our Birmingham office.
Can I find out more about the online Watson-Glaser critical thinking test?
- We use the Watson-Glaser critical thinking test.
- The online critical thinking tests assess how well you can absorb and analyse information.
- They measure your ability to evaluate arguments, deductions, inferences, and conclusions.
- They're good predictors of success in roles where you need to see things clearly from many angles and separate facts from assumptions.
- To get a feel for the intellectual demands you'll experience from day one, you can take our practice test.
- Be sure to read the feedback you receive as it will help you with the formal assessments.
Birmingham Training Contract
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