Information about the second legal state examination at the joint examination office of the states of Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg

Prerequisites

• You have successfully completed the first legal state examination and the legal traineeship

Documents required

No.

Note: You must present the required documents when you are hired for the preparatory service or acquire them during the process.

Please note

There are no hints or special features.

Deadlines

No.




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.

Procedure

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.

Processing time

The examination process takes almost 6 months.

Fees

There are no fees for taking the exam for the first time.

Legal remedies

contradiction

Legal basis

• §§ 5 ff. German Judges Act (DRiG)
  DRiG - German Judges Act (gesetze-im-internet.de)


• Agreement of the states of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein on a joint examination office and the examination regulations for the second state examination for lawyers
  Hamburg - § 23a JurPrAmtÜbkStVtr HA | State standard Hamburg | grade improvement | § 23 a - Improvement of grades | valid from: 03/21/2008 (landesrecht-hamburg.de)

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).