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<blockquote data-quote="James Carrabino" data-source="post: 115157" data-attributes="member: 16764"><p>I wouldn't know at all how much depth they were looking for, but I did not have any legal insight at the time at all so I went into zero depth <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>For example, one firm asked us to do our written task 'as if it were a problem question' and I had no idea what that meant but thought perhaps I was the only one who had no idea - I didn't realise that this was a law student term! So I didn't speak up and just wrote it like an essay...</p><p></p><p>Another firm's case study relied on knowledge of the concept of corporate legal personality, which I had not encountered before and only learnt about afterwards when discussing the task with another vac schemer (this meant that everything I had said was essentially wrong)!</p><p></p><p>So it was not a matter of being asked to provide any sort of in-depth legal analysis, it was simply that the task they had given us which they claimed could be done by law and non-law students alike, pre-supposed at least a modicum of legal knowledge in order to be done correctly.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, it is possible that after many years practising law, whoever set these tasks was completely unaware that the terms they used would be unfamiliar to a non-law student!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Carrabino, post: 115157, member: 16764"] I wouldn't know at all how much depth they were looking for, but I did not have any legal insight at the time at all so I went into zero depth :) For example, one firm asked us to do our written task 'as if it were a problem question' and I had no idea what that meant but thought perhaps I was the only one who had no idea - I didn't realise that this was a law student term! So I didn't speak up and just wrote it like an essay... Another firm's case study relied on knowledge of the concept of corporate legal personality, which I had not encountered before and only learnt about afterwards when discussing the task with another vac schemer (this meant that everything I had said was essentially wrong)! So it was not a matter of being asked to provide any sort of in-depth legal analysis, it was simply that the task they had given us which they claimed could be done by law and non-law students alike, pre-supposed at least a modicum of legal knowledge in order to be done correctly. Honestly, it is possible that after many years practising law, whoever set these tasks was completely unaware that the terms they used would be unfamiliar to a non-law student! [/QUOTE]
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