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Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells is a leading global law firm, with over 2,500 lawyers working in over 40 offices in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. Our scale and capability positions us amongst the global elite of law firms, and provides our trainees with an international stage on which to develop their legal career.

What we do

Our international strength across a wide range of practice areas gives us a strong reputation for corporate, finance, dispute resolution, government regulatory and intellectual property. This provides good training opportunities for those joining us.

Training

Our recruitment and training philosophy is very simple: our continued success as a firm depends on our ability to attract and retain the brightest and most able people.

Our two-year training contract is split into four six-month seats. As a trainee, you will move around four different practice areas during this time, to gain as much experience as possible - one of your seats will be in either our corporate or finance group, and another in one of our litigation teams. You will also have the option of spending time in the second year of training on secondment to one of our international offices or to the in-house legal team of a major client.

As a trainee at Hogan Lovells, you will be offered as much responsibility as you can handle relating to client work as well as a comprehensive legal skills training programme, regular reviews and appraisals. After qualification continuous training and development remain a priority - we enable the brightest minds to deepen their professional and business expertise throughout their career, which enhances the quality of advice we provide to clients, our reputation and your ability to make the very best of your expertise.

Vacation schemes and open days

We offer summer vacation schemes for penultimate year law students and a number of different open days for first year law students and final year non-law students. Further details can be found on our website - www.hoganlovells.com/graduates.

What we look for

We are looking for graduates whose combination of academic excellence and desire for specialist knowledge will develop our business and take it forward. Although we are one of the largest global legal practices, we work in small, hard-working teams where everybody is committed to our collective success.

As a consequence of the high profile, demanding work the firm does, we expect applicants to have achieved excellent academic results from GCSE (or equivalent) onwards. Candidates should be aiming to achieve, or have achieved, at least a good 2:1 (or equivalent) consistently throughout their studies and as their final degree classification.

The right personal qualities are as important as the right qualifications. You also need to be happy working in a team yet capable of, and used to, independent action. You will need to demonstrate an ability and desire for lateral thinking, be capable of close attention to detail, and be ambitious to succeed in a top law firm.

Apply

Apply online at www.hoganlovells.com/graduates.

Contact Details

For further information about Hogan Lovells and our opportunities, please visit our website www.hoganlovells.com/graduates. If you have any questions please contact us at recruit@hoganlovells.com or on 020 7296 2000.