Lawyer

☛ What is your greatest personal asset? Your greatest weakness?

☛ Do you like routine work?

☛ What constitutes "security" in your mind?

☛ What fields interest you other than the one you are in?

☛ What do you really feel are things that help a person become successful?

☛ What constitutes "success" in your mind?

☛ What kinds of things give you the most satisfaction in your work?

☛ What criteria are you using to evaluate the employer for which you hope to work?

☛ What's the worst question you can think of to ask me?

☛ What do you enjoy doing the most?

☛ Why did you only get a "P" in ____?

☛ What classes are you taking?

☛ How did you like ___ (work experience)?

☛ What are your ultimate career goals?

☛ Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten? Twenty?

☛ What is your greatest strength?

☛ What is your greatest weakness?

☛ What one thing have you done that you're proudest of?

☛ Do you have any more questions?

☛ Why do you want to work in city? (Be prepared for this one if you have no obvious ties to the area. Firms do not want to waste recruiting efforts on someone who is not committed to their location)

☛ Why do you want to be a lawyer?

☛ Why do you think you're suited to a career in the law?

Why don't you want to be a barrister?

☛ If you couldn't work in the law, what would you be?

☛ What do you think you'll be doing during your first year at the firm?

☛ Do you like working in a team?

☛ Do you like working by yourself?

☛ How do you feel about long working hours?

☛ What are our strongest practice areas?

☛ Which of our practice areas interest you and why?

Determine how the candidate defines what is right.

Determine how the candidate defines a loss. Is there a loss in terms of fundamentalism, social institutions, moral agency or virtuous organizations as a whole?

Fundamentalism: Financial and legal responsibility only "Business of business is profit."

Social Institutions: Social contract exists beyond economics and legalities. Need to accommodate stakeholders' interests.

Moral Agency: Moral obligations similar to people. Morality and ethics are part of culture: The 'right thing to do.

Virtuous Organizations: Organizations that foster the good society. Obligation to build a better world.

The relationship should be an honest, open, and trusting one where questions can be asked and opinions can be expressed without concern of retaliation.

Be brief and use specifics to say what and how you do when, for example, you receive clients, draw up legal documents relevant to the case, decide for or against taking the case, etc.

Lawyers must be able to work long hours alone, with complex documentation and literature. At the same time, their interpersonal skills must be outstanding to effectively communicate in the office and in the courtroom. Lawyers use not only their analytical prowess but also their personalities in their work.

☛ If so, how did you cope and how did the matter resolve itself if it did occur?

☛ What would your peers say about you?

☛ Describe your ideal work environment?

☛ Describe your worst work environment?

☛ Tell me about a time when you successfully handled a situation?

☛ Tell me about a time when you felt that you dealt with a situation inadequately, and how has that changed how you would approach the same situation?

☛ What do you think you can bring to this position?

☛ What do you think you can bring to this company?

☛ How do you see this job developing?

☛ What sort of salary are you expecting?

☛ What sort of employment background do you have?

☛ Why did you come to us through an agency?

☛ Have you applied anywhere else apart from us?

☛ Have you had any other interviews apart from us?

☛ Have you been offered a position yet?

☛ How much notice would you need to give to your present employer if you were offered a position?

☛ Would you be willing to branch out into any other area of law, if the need arose?

☛ Have you ever been abroad?

☛ Do you speak any other languages apart from English?

☛ What questions have you for us?

☛ What was your last salary?

☛ If you did not have to work what would you do?

☛ What decisions do you find easy to make?

☛ What decisions do you find difficult to make?

☛ Do you like to work in a team or on your own?

☛ What would you do if you don't get this position?

☛ If offered the position, how long do you plan to stay at this company?

☛ On taking this job, what would be your major contribution?

☛ How do you get the best out of people?

☛ How do you respond under stress?

☛ Tell me about a time when you misjudged a person?

☛ Do you check your emails when you're on holiday?

☛ Do you have a role model? If so, who is it and why?

☛ If you could try any job for a week, what would you do?

☛ How do I rate as an interviewer?

☛ Rank these in the order of importance: power, health, status, wealth.

☛ Give an example of when you have learnt from a mistake.

☛ Who would you like to punch on the nose?

☛ Sing us a verse from your favorite song.

☛ What did you have for breakfast today?

☛ What experience have you had in organizing or directing clubs and/ or activities?

☛ Tell me about yourself?

☛ Describe yourself in one word?

☛ What are your future career plans?

☛ Why did you choose law?

☛ What courses have you liked best? Least?

☛ What qualifications do you have that make you feel you will be successful in your area of interest?

☛ What have you learned from some of the jobs you have held?

☛ What type of people do you feel you work with best?

☛ What type of people would you have trouble working with?

☛ How would you reconcile being assigned a case you were morally opposed to?

☛ Why do you want to be a lawyer?

☛ Why did you go to law school?

☛ How do you like law school?

☛ How are you doing in school?

☛ What are your grades?

☛ Why are you interested in this firm?

☛ What can I tell you about this firm?

☛ What type of law do you want to do?

☛ Who are your favorite instructors?

Besides a law school degree, many lawyers have degrees or coursework in a number of other relevant subjects, like English, politics, socialism, and economic science. Some lawyers have degrees in accounting or engineering.

Lawyers are highly trained, highly educated professionals who command vast and precise knowledge in many areas besides law. They are also able to manipulate their knowledge creatively to make their case. Lawyers are confident and charismatic.

In the Movie the actor portrayed a lawyer who shared his honest feelings to all around him. Sharing honest feelings, especially ones of anger, frustration, and hate, may be inappropriate and also based on inadequate information about another person or situation.

Find out what specific behaviors are inadequate. Even if the impressions are wrong about you, do not retaliate.

Lawyers are usually represented as criminal lawyers in the public eye. Many, of course, are civil lawyers, and there are those who specialize in corporate law - the legal aspect of business transactions. Business companies always hire lawyers to represent them and handle any legal aspects, definitions, and documentation of their activities.