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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Miller" data-source="post: 82813" data-attributes="member: 5063"><p>For the competency interview, I would recommend starting with my Definitive Guide to Law Firm Interviews, available via the link in my signature. </p><p></p><p>Scenario interviews, by the manner in which HSF do them, are somewhat hard to prep for. Bear in mind that their strongest practice areas are corporate and disputes, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see one of each scenario, but they could be from literally anything and they are designed to test your legal and commercial understanding in a much more realistic way than a case study interview. I much prefer them for that reason. Anyway, I digress... I would certainly be brushing up on things like the basics of contracts, life cycle of a deal, life cycle of a dispute, etc from a legal perspective. </p><p></p><p>When youre actually in the room, the scenario will be new to you and you'll need time to think. I personally took some notes as the partner was explaining the situation and then, to give myself extra time, I basically repeated the scenario back to the interviewer and framed it as "so my understanding is XYZ is this correct?". That gave me enough time to start identifying, prioritising and analysing key issues without pausing for awkwardly long lengths of time or feeling contrived. </p><p></p><p>Hope this helps to some degree!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jacob Miller, post: 82813, member: 5063"] For the competency interview, I would recommend starting with my Definitive Guide to Law Firm Interviews, available via the link in my signature. Scenario interviews, by the manner in which HSF do them, are somewhat hard to prep for. Bear in mind that their strongest practice areas are corporate and disputes, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see one of each scenario, but they could be from literally anything and they are designed to test your legal and commercial understanding in a much more realistic way than a case study interview. I much prefer them for that reason. Anyway, I digress... I would certainly be brushing up on things like the basics of contracts, life cycle of a deal, life cycle of a dispute, etc from a legal perspective. When youre actually in the room, the scenario will be new to you and you'll need time to think. I personally took some notes as the partner was explaining the situation and then, to give myself extra time, I basically repeated the scenario back to the interviewer and framed it as "so my understanding is XYZ is this correct?". That gave me enough time to start identifying, prioritising and analysing key issues without pausing for awkwardly long lengths of time or feeling contrived. Hope this helps to some degree! [/QUOTE]
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