Higher Regional Court of Hamburg
Information about the second legal state examination at the joint examination office of the states of Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg
Your legal traineeship ends when you pass the second state examination in law. If you successfully pass the exam, you acquire the qualification to hold judicial office and are entitled to use the designation “Assessor” or “Assessor”.
The exam consists of 8 supervised papers lasting 5 hours and an oral exam. After successfully completing the exam, a certificate is issued by the Joint Examination Office of the states of Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg (GPA).
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Note: You must present the required documents when you are hired for the preparatory service or acquire them during the process.
There are no hints or special features.
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You must apply for a grade improvement at the latest 2 weeks before the desired examination date at the examination office. You must also pay the examination fee within this period. If there is a shorter period of time between the first oral exam and the next exam date, you can still complete the repetition to improve your grade on the third exam date following the oral exam.
Admission to the examination takes place automatically after successful completion of the training stations, so that a separate application for admission is not necessary.
Each examinee is invited by the examination office to prepare the supervised work. The supervision work is done in the 20th month of training over a period of 2 weeks. After completing the work, the examinee completes the optional station of the preparatory service, while the supervisory work is evaluated by 2 examiners. This is followed by an invitation to the oral examination, which takes place at the beginning of the 25th month of training. This consists of a file presentation and 5 examination interviews (civil law, criminal law, public law, lawyer and focus). Passing the exam completes the legal traineeship.
The examination process takes almost 6 months.
There are no fees for taking the exam for the first time.
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Last updated: 13.10.2026