Hey, I can see Andrei has responded but feel free to pm me, I did an AC for their VS last yearDoes anyone have any advice for a Mayer Brown assessment centre/partner interview? It would be very much appreciated!
Hey, I can see Andrei has responded but feel free to pm me, I did an AC for their VS last yearDoes anyone have any advice for a Mayer Brown assessment centre/partner interview? It would be very much appreciated!
You can accept but keep looking and applying for other roles. If you then secure something more commercially focused, you can decide whether it is better to move.Really unsure what i should do. I received a paralegal offer but it is in a high street firm rather than commercial. I was previously in hospitality and started applying to any paralegal role that came up but now i am thinking if i commit to a non-commercial practice area i will look unserious as i graduated a few years ago. I was initially willing to accept as it is local to me and thought it would be better to manage with the application cycle rather than commuting two hours a day to a city firm. Would you guys take it or keep applying to commercial paralegal roles?
Has anyone else heard back? Assume a PFO as I've heard nothingI have received an online test invite for Howard Kennedy an hour back for whoever is still waiting![]()
I interviewed for their vacation schemes. I imagine the process is similar for direct TC. I had a commercial focused group exercise, for this make sure to weave in your knowledge of MB and the firm’s market strengths alongside any commercial trends. We also had a ‘fact find’ which is essentially client interviewing. This is far harder to prepare for. It involved a decision on whether to invest in company a or b and we had to ask an associate open and closed ended questions to inform our decision. Finally we had a written exercise it involves proofreading an email and composing a brief email memo. Best of luck!Does anyone have any advice for a Mayer Brown assessment centre/partner interview? It would be very much appreciated!
What kind of time period are we talking about between the application being submitted and the interview taking place?I was offered a training contract at quite a large firm. In my application, I stated that I was working part-time as a paralegal at a small law firm. Between sending my application and being invited for interview, they fired me (it was a very small firm and it was not particularly personal). During my training contract interview I verbally said I was still working there but was planning on quitting. Do you think this will come up in my pre-employment screening checks that I will have to complete in over a year's time (I will likely have a new job in the meanwhile).
Bros gonna be disappointed when he checks his inboxTheir email says by 6pm on 9 May so expect a 5.59 email on that date.
Between sending my application and my interview, a few weeks (less than a month). I was let go a little over a week after my applicationWhat kind of time period are we talking about between the application being submitted and the interview taking place?
LMAOOO Yeah I got the email earlier as well, well at least now I don't have to risk reading a bad email right before my best friend's bridal showerBros gonna be disappointed when he checks his inbox
Only if you mean because they have now extended this deadline to 19 MayBros gonna be disappointed when he checks his inbox
It’s not to say it couldn’t be picked up - it could. It’s why lying about things like your employment in terms of when or how long you did it is something to definitely avoid.Between sending my application and my interview, a few weeks (less than a month). I was let go a little over a week after my application
Thank you Andrei, this is super helpful!I have never completed a fact-finding exercise in an AC before, but I have some tips based on my experience with it in a client interviewing competition:
- Determine the scope of your inquiry: essentially, you want to find out early on what information you are looking to get and why, as this can help you ascertain what further questions will actually be relevant. As such, after hearing/reading the brief, ask yourself: what are the commercial/legal issues we are dealing with, what is the client's interest, and what do I need to help them achieve it?
- Organize your questions: if you can see early on that your questions can be split between a few different areas, you should make a mental plan to go through each area one at a time.
- Ask open-ended questions: this is crucial to prompt the associate to give you more information you may not even be aware you should be looking for yet. If you ask closed-ended questions like 'Did this particular thing happen?', this simply does not give the respondent much to work on.
- Spot strategic ambiguity: in my client interviewing competition, interviewees received a specific set of instructions as to how and when to give out information, and at some points, they would have to be intentionally ambiguous. This was to assess if you can spot that and know how to follow up more on the issue until you get the information you need. I would suspect the same will hold in your case, as the firm is looking for ways exercises that can differentiate between candidates' skills. Thus, I think you should constantly be on the lookout for insufficiently specific responses.
- Be an active and inquisitive listener: probably the most important line of advice here is this - you need to have a genuinely inquisitive mindset, to actively want to get to the bottom of the issue. This is what enables you to naturally seek the facts that are kept hidden from you. One method that worked for me in this regard was to try to imagine myself in the shoes of the client as I was picturing their story, which prompted me to ask the right questions as to how I got into a given situation.