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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maria d'Orey" data-source="post: 121343" data-attributes="member: 25017">Hi [USER=17670]@Crystal86[/USER] , great question!I was actually doing my conversion degree during the application process, so when it came to the assessment centre I had a little bit of a background in law.I'm not sure if Ashurst's vacation scheme assessment centre is one of a kind, but our only exercise was to write a business report in 1 hour.  This required the ability to process and critically analyse information quickly (because you needed to read a variety of documents to get an idea of what arguments you could make) and write clearly, so this is what I practiced the most (as we knew the structure of the exercise in advance). I think you can easily practice this by doing a similar exercise on a weekly basis where you time yourself to go over a few articles and write a short summary of what you've read. However, please note that there was no need to know the topic in advance in this case.The interview was also mostly competency-based, although I was asked about any news that had caught my attention recently (which I already expected, so I had also prepared for). The few commercial questions I got then were based on the story I had mentioned, from what I remember.I mainly went over key commercial and legal concepts before my final interview with the partners (for a TC). I focused on my uni notes on contract and land law (because they were related to the work I had done during the vacation scheme).I also refreshed my mind on some commercial concepts that I thought could help me during the commercial scenario questions. For example, some basic principles of corporate finance, ways to finance a business, ways in which businesses can grow, some key types of contracts in M&A transactions, common clauses in commercial contracts, rights of shareholders, arrangements that may be initiated after insolvency, how exactly different practice areas can be involved in due diligence, etc.However, I definitely did not need to know most of this to answer my interview questions - it just helped make me comfortable to discuss this sort of topic! I really hope this is helpful!</blockquote>

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