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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaysen" data-source="post: 29113" data-attributes="member: 1">Please state the month/year you interviewed at the firm.February 2020Please specify what the interview was for.Spring Vacation Scheme 2020Please give an overview of the day with approximate timings.10.30 - 11.15 - Grad rec and partner interview 11.15 - 12.15 - Written Exercise Please provide a summary of each assessment on the day with approximate timings.N/APlease list any interview questions you were asked.Why law? Why White & Case? Who are our main competitors?Tell us about the 2020 strategy?Talk about a time you had to come up with a creative solutionWhat is the role of a trainee? What challenges would you face as a trainee? What would you do if a partner and an associate asked you to do the same work and it was the same deadline? What do you do in your spare time? What is your best advice for each aspect of the assessment on the day? Please break this down for each assessment. This can include advice for preparation, as well as tips for the day.So White & Case do their assessments differently from everyone else as you are by yourself for the couple of hours that you are at the firm. I found this style of interview a lot harder as it meant that I could not relax as easily. The first part of the assessment was the CV-blind interview with the partner and graduate recruitment. They both were really friendly when I came in and asked why law, why White & Case to start off with and about a recent deal that I was interested in. Be sure to be prepared to answer any follow up questions on this, I talked about the Saudi Aramco IPO and asked me what an IPO was afterwards. The interview also consisted of some competency questions, as well asking me about what I thought the role of a trainee was and the challenges I would face as a trainee. Also make sure you know a lot about the firms USPs such as the international seat and the 2020 strategy because the questions are tailored towards this. The CV blind aspect definitely meant that you had to clarify some topics before answering questions, and there is an opportunity at the end to tell them anything you haven’t covered, which I would definitely utilise to ensure that you can completely sell yourself. It felt quite conversational so try and relax and enjoy the process!The second part of the assessment was the written exercise (on a laptop!). This involved writing a memo to a partner for a meeting with a commercial property client about the decline in retail, in particular shopping centres by summarising 3 articles and writing about the issues this would present the client. I found this bit quite hard as the articles were of financial times style and I found it hard to read and understand the information thoroughly in the time you were given (an hour). For me, I found the approach that Jaysen has put in the forum somewhere for structuring a memorandum the best way to approach this as it allowed me to use clear headings and give myself time restraints to complete each one. My feedback for this was that it was good but needed more attention to detail so make sure you leave 5 minutes at the end in order to make sure it’s a well-presented document. Were you successful?No</blockquote>

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