Pro practiceHead of Legal and Company Secretary practice interview
Combining enterprise legal leadership with board governance, statutory records, regulatory compliance and trusted advice to directors. Practise the 6 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview covers the dual responsibility of leading legal advice and serving the board as company secretary. The panel will assess whether you can protect decision quality, maintain reliable corporate records and advise directors independently. Strong answers show judgement, discretion and control of both strategic legal risk and detailed governance work.
How to prepare
- Prepare examples of improving a board process, resolving a governance gap and influencing a difficult legal decision.
- Review how you plan agendas, improve board papers, draft minutes and track actions.
- Be ready to explain your control over statutory records, delegations, filings and subsidiary governance.
- Practise advising a director in plain language when the legal answer is unwelcome.
- Think through how you divide work between the legal team, secretariat and external advisers.
Common mistakes
- Treating the company secretary role as meeting administration rather than governance advice.
- Recording minutes so vaguely that the basis of a major decision cannot be understood.
- Agreeing with a powerful stakeholder when the board needs an independent legal view.
- Focusing on filings while missing the larger legal exposure facing the organisation.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
6 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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