Achieving Your Goals
As an employee of Hill Dickinson, whatever your role, you will be given the opportunity to develop your talents and learn new skills through a wide variety of learning and training opportunities.
Learning is not just about attending courses; we see your development as a partnership and can help you realise your potential through coaching, learning from others, informal lunchtime seminars, attending internal and external training events, studying for relevant professional qualifications and attending courses run jointly with our clients. If you have the drive to succeed, we can equip you with the skills.
We continually extend our lawyers’ knowledge through specialised legal training using both internal and external speakers including barristers, leading experts, universities and business schools. In addition we develop our lawyers’ skills in commercial awareness through the provision of structured internal Hill Dickinson Business School programmes.
We have a comprehensive induction programme and offer updates and refreshers on a regular basis in a range of technical areas including IT, finance and compliance.
We offer tailored development programmes for people of all levels within the firm for example:
- Management development programme, including leadership, managing change and managing performance
- Associate development programme, including negotiation skills, presentation skills and team leadership
- Assistant solicitor development programme, including personal effectiveness and business development
- Trainee and paralegal development programme, including personal effectiveness, presentation skills and specialised legal seminars
- Firm wide and business support development programme, including team leadership, customer care, law for non lawyers and train the trainer
