Law firm vacation scheme interview practice
Commercial awareness, motivation for legal work, careful reasoning and contribution during a law firm placement. Practise the 6 questions the real interviewer asks with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About this interview
A vacation scheme interview selects students and graduates for a short period of legal work experience. Interviewers look for informed motivation, commercial thinking, accurate analysis and the judgement to be useful without pretending to know more than you do.
How to prepare
- Review the firm's main practice areas and identify the work that genuinely interests you.
- Follow a current business development and trace its likely effect on clients and legal work.
- Practise explaining how you would research a new legal issue and verify your conclusion.
- Prepare examples of teamwork, careful written work and responding well to feedback.
- Read your application again and be ready to support every claim with detail.
Common mistakes
- Listing news stories without explaining why they matter to a client.
- Claiming certainty when a research task contains gaps.
- Speaking only about prestige rather than the work itself.
- Describing group achievements without identifying your contribution.
What to expect
A real mock interview
6 questions the way the real interviewer asks, 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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