Hogan Lovells Mock Interview

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Question 9 of 29

Employment law often involves deep human emotion when bonds are supposedly broken between employee and employer. How do you separate your personal feelings and emotions when involved with a case?

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Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

This question gets to the root of your ability to keep your own personal feelings and biases out of your work while working to the letter of the law in what is best for your clients. In the practice of employment law, you have been involved with cases that have involved potential injustice to the rights of workers and/or employers and you need to stress your ability to keep your own thoughts and feelings separate from your work. The best way to do so is through an example or two of a case that you worked on.

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"Recently, I was consulting a large employer that was moving forward with a mass layoff and part of my role was to ensure that the organization was selecting the right employees to layoff based on performance records. I spent many days reviewing performance reviews, improvement plans and disciplinary actions and my own personal thought was that the employer was really an organization filled with high performing people. While in my heart I felt for the employees that would soon be out of work, my duty to the organization was to help them take the best action legally and I did just that through a thorough and well documented process. If hired here at Hogan Lovells, I will bring the ability to remain focused on the best interest of your clients at all times."

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29Hogan Lovells Interview Questions & Answers

1.What do you consider to be the most difficult case or project you have worked on during your career?

2.What Supreme Court ruling have you disagreed with and why?

3.What in particular about our firm here at Hogan Lovells interests you both personally and professionally?

4.To better help serve our diverse client base here at Hogan Lovells, do you have an area of sub-specialization that you would prefer to focus on if hired?

5.To ensure that our clients here at Hogan Lovells are served in the best way possible, our staff must ensure that they are up to speed on all state and federal laws. How do you stay in touch with changes to local, state and federal tax laws?

6.What do you feel is the most important skill that you possess that makes you effective in the litigation/arbitration process?

7.To be successful here at Hogan Lovells, we want to ensure that you are motivated each and every day on the job with our clients. What drew you to working with patent and trademark law?

8.Talk about a time that you had to think on your feet on the job. What was the situation and what was your thought process for acting quickly?

9.Employment law often involves deep human emotion when bonds are supposedly broken between employee and employer. How do you separate your personal feelings and emotions when involved with a case?

10.What do you feel are the key qualities that a great attorney should have?

11.Where do you feel you could use some improvement in the litigation/arbitration process at this point in your career?

12.Here at Hogan Lovells, we often have to work with very difficult clients. What would be your steps toward effectively working with a difficult client?

13.With our diverse range of clients here at Hogan Lovells, are there any specific areas of intellectual property law that interest you the most?

14.What was your motivation for pursuing a career in the field of law/legal services?

15.Do you have any particular areas of wage and hour laws that particularly interest you?

16.At Hogan Lovells, employee satisfaction is very important. To ensure that you would be happy here, what brings you satisfaction in your day to day work?

17.What drew you to an interest in pursuing a career in real estate law? What excites you each day to be successful in this area?

18.When we look for diligent and effective people to join our real estate law team here at Hogan Lovells, the ability to effectively research legal options and write contracts are vital to our success as a firm. Talk about your ability to excel in these are

19.Have you been involved in a corporate tax audit before? What did you learn from that experience?

20.Talk about a time your ethics were challenged on the job. How do you react to those situations in the legal profession?

21.One common legal aspect that we work closely on with clients here at Hogan Lovells is zoning for large scale construction and/or purchases. What experience do you have in working with local zoning laws?

22.Working with clients here at Hogan Lovells entails the need for strong finance and accounting principles. Why is this important and what will you bring to the team here in this realm if hired?

23.Talk about the most difficult work situation you have found yourself in and explain how you used sound judgement to find a great outcome?

24.Hogan Lovells values philanthropy and community giving. How do you choose to give back to others?

25.If hired here at Hogan Lovells, how would you best build trusting relationships with our clients?

26.What experience do you have in working with large scale construction companies on state and federal regulations? Would this be an area that would interest you?