GvW Graf von Westphalen prepares law clerks for their bar exams
The first Kaiser crash course for law clerks took place on Friday in the Hamburg office of GvW. The law firm invited all law clerks in the law firm to Hamburg for a one-day work shop focused on preparation for the second state bar exam.
Jan Kaiser, managing director of Kaiser Seminars, guided the almost 20 GvW law clerks from Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich through the thicket of substantive civil law. This is also the material which is tested in the test on civil procedure, enforcement and attorneys and, thus, has great relevance for the test. A primary goal of the workshop involved sensitizing the law clerks for those issues and problems in substantive law which regularly appear in the bar exam.
Some issues of substantive law which are relevant for the test, such as traffic accidents or divorce, by nature are not adequately addressed in the training as a law clerk in a commercial law firm. “The crash course is an important supplement to our practical law clerk training also in this regard,” said Marian Niestedt, the new partner at GvW responsible for human resources. “At the same time, the crash course supplements our training for attorneys F.A.K.T. and also our sample tests for students which we have successfully conducted together with the publication JuS since 2015. The positive feedback from the participants in the crash course, who expressly also appreciated getting to know a further GvW office, reinforces our view that our law clerks must prepare for the second state bar exam in addition to the “on-the-job training.”
Kaiser Seminars is a legal review program which trains the law clerks throughout Germany in weekend and day crash courses in all fields of the law, types of tests and the oral examination in the second state bar exams. According to azur 2/14, the provider is considered to be “the market leader in preparation for the second state bar exam.”
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