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
Birmingham office
We are proud to invest in and support the city by providing attractive career opportunities as well as by undertaking a variety of community and pro bono activities. For more than 6 years, teams across our Birmingham and London offices have collaborated to assist children to apply for British citizenship, with Kids in Need of Defense (UK). Some examples of local partnerships include our work with the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trusts and The Wildlife Trusts who we’ve partnered with to provide pro legal advice, donations and skilled volunteering, including team Wild Work Days to support conservation and habitat restoration efforts at local nature reserves. As well as education programmes supporting young people build their literacy and confidence through our partnership with ChapterOne.
What we do
Formally launched in 2015, our Birmingham office offers comprehensive legal solutions in our key practice areas.
Our lawyers work seamlessly in integrated teams, as extensions of our London-based Legal Practice Areas and alongside our international teams, providing clients with access to Hogan Lovells' sophisticated global resources while delivering personalized services. We act for many of the world’s largest and most influential corporations and financial institutions, and our work on complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions regularly places us at the heart of exciting and high-profile deals. Our strategic advice in ground-breaking disputes has both clarified English law and set precedents for future cases.
About us
Our Birmingham office reflects the firm’s commitment to providing innovative and cost-effective solutions for the delivery of legal services. In addition to the extensions to our Legal Practice Areas, it is also home to the firm’s Legal Delivery Centre, which handles document review and due diligence, and to a variety of Business Team functions, including Compliance & Conflicts; Finance; Knowledge; Marketing & Business Development; People; Practice Operations; and Technology.
Our Legal Delivery Centre is the base for a strong paralegal community, who work alongside, and as an integral part of many of our practice areas and work across a number of key matters.
Application details
- Please note there are no restrictions on applying for the HL Lift Off programme alongside a Vacation Scheme or Training Contract. However, you cannot apply for two vacation schemes or a vacation scheme and training contract role within the same application window.
- Our current application window runs from 1 September 2024-31 August 2025.
- Application deadline: Monday 31 March 2025 at 22:59 (UTC)
