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When was your Clifford Chance interview


February 2018


What for? 


Vacation scheme


Please describe the interview process at Clifford Chance.


This was basically a competency, written task and case study (last two rolled into one)


What advice would you give to future applicants about the Clifford Chance interview?


Competency: really simple as long as you come in knowing that you have to really sell yourself and use all your experiences to demonstrate your personality. It's definitely not hard and I think they're just seeing your personality from that one, as well as box ticking (commercial awarneess, communication etc)


Written task (part of the case study): so this is kinda hard and definitely you're put under pressure for this, since you have 30mins to read the info, write a memo (on a laptop no less) to the partner about potential client concerns and what CC can do. It defintiely requires a prior understanding of what lawyers actually do which is tough if you haven't really gone deep into researching the exact role of lawyers or haven't done a VS etc. For that again structure really is key I'm assuming and they're looking (much like with Dechert) that you can write concisely, clearly and in a structured manner.


Case study: you then had to present based on the email you wrote to the partner (which was printed off, the partner isnt given a copy so they go in blind). The presentation again Im assuming is mainly about structure etc as well as the content you talk about. The partner then grills you on everything you've said/potentially missed and brings in new scenarios to test your problem solving on the fly. Then they discuss really general questions about you (I got "challenges facing CC" and "why do you think you will be a good lawyer at CC"). The Q&A is by far the hardest part of the case study, and prior research about current affairs topics (brexit, gdpr etc), general commercial awareness (e.g knowing what a leveraged loan is and the issues surrounding that) and knowing the role lawyers do in every dept and how they tackle different crises within businesses is key.


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