✅ Why did you choose our firm?

✅ What makes our firm different from our competitors?

✅ Where should our firm open a new office?

✅ Where should our firm close its offices?

✅ Why law?

✅ Why did you choose to pursue commercial law?

✅ How did you come to the decision to become a commercial solicitor?

✅ Why London / the UK?

✅ Any recent transaction at our firm?

✅ Tell us a developing story that was of interest to you and how it might affect our firm?

✅ Where do you see yourself in ten years?

✅ How do you feel about long hours?

✅ Why should we hire you?

✅ Tell us about a time when you had to multitask / work under pressure?

✅ Tell us about a time when you faced a setback? (resilience/determination)

✅ Tell us about a time when you overcame a challenge, or something had not gone as planned?

✅ Tell us about a time when your team failed (personal failure)?

✅ Tell us about a time when you had to communicate a complicated idea?

✅ Tell us about a time when you took initiative?

✅ Tell us about a time when you have led a team to success, or worked in a team?

✅ Tell us a time when you have gone beyond the expected level of services?

✅ Tell us about a time when you had to work with a difficult person?

✅ What’s your greatest strength?

✅ What’s your biggest weakness?

✅ Moral dilemma type questions?

✅ What was your favourite module?

✅ If you could bring into force any law, what would that law be and why?

✅ Can you tell me what a clause in a contract between these parties would include?

✅ Wacky questions, e.g. what literary or movie character do you most identify with and why?

✅ What three words would your friends use to describe you?

✅ Curveballs, e.g. how many credit cards do you think there are in the USA?

✅ Why are you leaving (or did you leave) this position?

✅ What other firms have you applied to?

✅ What are your hobbies?