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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nky_lawstudent" data-source="post: 1946" data-attributes="member: 350">Sharing my open day and networking lunch experiences after attending a handful (mostly magic circle and US biglaw)*however this is not in their london office, instead in another int. city The rule - its not your fault that you don't find the person you are talking to informative The trouble I had when I asked questions such as how you find the firm, training in the firm, what do they do, different practice areas or even questions such as legal tech, they tend to give really short answers or they give them with broad descriptions. It has been quite a frustrating experience for me when Im trying to find what is special about the firm, yet was given very broad answers. I started to amend my questions after finding to more open ended ones... hoping they will speak more. However, this sort of works (getting them to talk more, but still not much that is really relevant to making good cover letter) until I met with an A&O trainee, after talking to her and asking different things about the firm practice area, strategy and development, she actually said sth like 'why are you asking me such broad questions, don't you want to know more about the application process' she actually offered her linkedin contact... So as a rule of thumb, I think do look into their website before going to their open day, don't have to ask really technical questions (bc the person you are talking to might not share similar interest/work in that deal), and be honest with what you want to know. I actually believe how useful/positive you find these networking sessions is more determined by how willing the person you are talking to wants to share, instead of really how well you structure your questions (of course, try to avoid stupid questions such as what do you do). Last words, if you don't really have a particular question you have in mind, you can maybe join a group i.e. a trainee may be talking to 2-3 people, join them (just find a space next to them and the trainee/associate can notice you), since you are new to the group, they usually just go on with what they can are already talking about, you can just listen to that, instead of going through the trouble and starting a entirely new convo</blockquote>

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