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The aim of the preparatory service is to familiarize trainee lawyers with the tasks of the administration of justice and the administration and thereby introduce them to the implementation of the law. At the end of their training, trainee lawyers should be able to work independently in legal practice, if necessary after an induction period, and to meet the diverse and changing demands of society.
The governments manage the overall training of trainee lawyers in their district during the four-month training period at a district office, a municipality that employs at least one civil servant qualified to hold judicial office, a government, a district or a state office of the State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration as well as during the three-month mandatory internship in the professional fields of "administration", "business", "labor and social law" or "tax law" and after completion of the training until their departure.
Alternatively, the four-month training in public administration can also be completed for a period of up to two months at an administrative court, a social court or a tax court. Training directly at the State Ministry of the Interior, Sport and Integration is only possible during the compulsory elective internship. Furthermore, during the first two months of the administrative traineeship (including the last month of the judicial traineeship) and alternatively during the legal traineeship, it is possible to complete a supplementary course in administrative science at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, which counts towards the preparatory service.
The presidents of the higher regional courts are responsible for the overall training of trainee lawyers in their district, unless the respective government is responsible. The responsible government manages the preparatory service, in particular during the administrative station and, if applicable, during the compulsory elective internship or the Speyer semester. As the personnel administration office, it is also responsible for assigning trainee lawyers to the above-mentioned offices.