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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

As a leading European law firm, Noerr offers you the best conditions for your career. You will work in a collaborative atmosphere with the best in your field, benefit from a wide range of development measures, have ample opportunity to network internationally, and very quickly assume responsibility for adding value to what we do. Whether or not you have prior experience, we encourage you to join us.

Fundamentally, career development at Noerr looks like this:

As an associate or senior associate, you will be involved in case work from your first day and belong to a team led by a partner who will be responsible for you. Our Starting@Noerr induction programme will make sure that you get to know all the relevant practical aspects of your work during your first six months, under the supervision of a tutor individually assigned to you: people, tasks, methods, "dos" and "don'ts" – in short, all you need to "get there" quickly and start making a constructive contribution.

Annual appraisal interviews, based on a structured catalogue of assessment criteria, will make sure that your partner and you discuss explicitly where you are and, therefore, what development can be regarded as feasible, desirable or already achieved. One feature of Noerr's approach is that the training of our associates and senior associates is also a matter for our partners and is not merely left to external trainers and educational institutions. This means that partners will play a substantial role in your further training measures. Look here to find out more about the wide range of training measures that will promote your development corresponding to your career status.

If you start as an associate, you can normally expect after two years to be appointed senior associate and included on the firm's letterhead. From your third year, you will usually complete your 3-4-month secondment, probably with one of our international partner law firms or one of our clients. After a further three years, you are likely to be promoted to associated partner or counsel. As an associated partner, you will share responsibility for the firm's success and increasingly manage your own cases, as well as internal teams. Promotion to counsel is of interest to proven specialists in their field who do not (yet) wish to follow the path leading to partner status, usually for personal reasons. Finally, nomination as equity partner or senior counsel follows in your eighth year. This requires an outstanding reputation both inside and outside the firm, based on a well-founded business case and successful positioning in the marketplace with a corresponding client base.

All of these steps will not only be transparent for you; you can also openly discuss which ones you find most appealing. At certain stages in your own and your family's lives, the position of counsel may be of interest to you. Even so, this will not oblige you to rule out completely the possibility of becoming an associated partner. Rather, you may wish to put it off for just 2-3 years. Feel free to talk to us about it.

Who we look for

Advisors at Noerr are ambitious, think one stage further and can also see the business-related challenge behind legal issues. Key requirements are desire, curiosity about new things, eagerness for challenges, openness and a capacity for teamwork – all these qualities describe our advisors, who are composed of lawyers, tax advisors and accountants.

Also, because teams really have to be able to work together, we place great emphasis on your personality. Our firm as a whole and every one of us, from assistants to partners, benefit from the fact that a team atmosphere is cultivated and a cooperative company culture dominates. Following our values, you will fit in with us if we perceive you as both a highly skilled and trustworthy person who approaches tasks with passion and with commitment to the team. Additional qualifications such as a doctorate or LL.M. are welcome. A strong command of English is essential.

If you want to climb the career ladder all the way to partner, it will be important in the long term for you to specialise in one field of law. You will need to have a clear profile and to be perceived as an expert in the marketplace. Noerr will support you in this through further training both inside and outside the firm, opportunities to raise your profile (such as lectures and publication projects) and – particularly important to us – continuous feedback from your partners. Over time, your entrepreneurial thinking and actions will gain in importance. Ultimately, as a partner, you will be responsible not only for cases but also for teams. Here, too, Noerr will support you through targeted further-training modules, devoted to the skills that this will require. These will be complemented by coaching sessions dealing with specific fields of learning.

For many advisors, Noerr is planned as a springboard for your career. We also support this type of interest. This is because all your further training measures, your secondment and the manner in which you assume responsibility from your very first day, contribute to work on the widest variety of cases and thereby establish contacts with clients at an early stage are well suited for paving your way to a career outside our firm.

Has this made you want to join Noerr? If so, apply now.

Training

In keeping with our values – excellence, passion, trust and team spirit – your personal development opportunities are our top priority. Excellence requires continuous training, and this, in our view, will also rekindle your passion again and again.

Therefore, one feature of Noerr’s approach is that measures to support our advisors are also a matter for our partners and are not merely left to external trainers and educational institutions. Only in this way can we prepare development programmes that are tailored precisely to our employees’ needs, are constantly fine-tuned and achieve lasting results. The involvement of our partners ensures that the right target for specialist knowledge is set and guarantees the effective transmission of know-how, including the personal management skills and experience of our advisor personalities, who are respected throughout our sector.

Outside your on-the-job training, we consider your further development to consist of two elements: your specialist expertise needs to grow constantly alongside your authority as an advisor. We subdivide your advisory abilities into personal, social and entrepreneurial skills.


 

Your specialist training will take place regularly at the location where you are based and, at greater intervals, across locations in the company of all colleagues in your field. Alongside this, external events such as conferences and seminars are designed to contribute to the development of a high level of specialisation. In addition, we want to foster your know-how across specialist fields, as well as your general business management skills. The latter will take place through lectures and workshops, mostly held locally.

In contrast, to develop your advisory skills we will form classes across locations and specialist fields. Over a period of five years, you and your class will work through seven modules in total, devoted emphatically to your personality (strengths, weaknesses, typical characteristics), your social skills (teamwork, leadership, conflict management etc.) and your entrepreneurial potential (negotiating, pitches, project management etc.). The aim is for you to develop your skills in a more reflective and deliberate manner (than simply by intuition), so that you will be equipped for the growing requirements as you deal with internal teams and external clients.

Similarly, the aim of your secondment, which normally takes place from your third year, is to make you sensitive to new perspectives and to enable you to appreciate different methods and types of logic and to surmount both subject-related and cultural barriers. You will do this by spending 3-4 months either supporting your client’s legal department or visiting one of our 160 partner law firms in the Lex Mundi network.

Here is an overview of the modules covered by Noerr Campus:

 

Application

    How to apply

    Applying online: If you have found a suitable vacancy, click on “Apply now” at the bottom of the advertisement. A window will open, where you can enter your personal details and upload your application documents. If you have prepared well, you should expect to spend only 5-8 minutes on this. Please have the following application documents ready, preferably in PDF format: - Covering letter - CV - School/university certifica...

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    Documents: Please make sure that your application is as complete as possible. Ideally, your application should contain a personalised covering letter, your curriculum vitae (CV) and the most important certificates. The covering letter gives you the opportunity, among other things, to explain why you are interested in the position and to describe two or three stages in your CV that are relevant to the position. Your CV will be all the more readable if it is structured clearly and significant eve...

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    Tips for applicants

    Documents: Please make sure that your application is as complete as possible. Ideally, your application should contain a personalised covering letter, your curriculum vitae (CV) and the most important certificates. The covering letter gives you the opportunity, among other things, to explain why you are interested in the position and to describe two or three stages in your CV that are relevant to the position. Your CV will be all the more readable if it is structured clearly and significant eve...

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