Lewis Silkin Mock Interview

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Some of our business here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors is representing companies in collective bargaining agreements with trade unions and work councils. What experience in the collective bargaining process would you bring to the team here?

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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.

Unionization throughout many industries has brought forth the need for employment attorneys to assist in representing organization's at the bargaining table. For this question, your interviewer will be looking to hear what experience you have in this realm so be prepared to talk in detail about the important and necessary aspects for helping the organization you are representing to meet all of their business objectives during the negotiation. Talk about the importance of communication and fact finding in your answer to demonstrate that you will bring those qualities to the organizations that you will represent.

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.

"During my years of practice up to this point, I
have represented employers at the negotiating table with members of the Trades Union Congress. Through any negotiation, my first order of business with my clients was to sit down with management to discuss goals and then to draft proposals to the union that met all of the goals of the organization. Ahead of negotiation, we made a plan for prioritizing the goals in the case any concessions were necessary to gain ground elsewhere. Having this plan always helped in coming to a winning deal for the organization that the union was also happy with. During bargaining, you'll find that I am a forthright and demonstrative communicator with business leaders and clients that I would be representing."

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28Lewis Silkin Solicitors Interview Questions & Answers

1.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?

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

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

4.What would make you a great trial advocate if you were to join the team here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors?

5.Some of our business here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors is representing companies in collective bargaining agreements with trade unions and work councils. What experience in the collective bargaining process would you bring to the team here?

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

7.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?

8.To be successful here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors, 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?

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

10.What in particular about our firm here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors interests you both personally and professionally?

11.With our diverse range of clients here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors, are there any specific areas of intellectual property law that interest you the most?

12.Here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors, carefully analyzing the cases of our clients is of utmost importance. What analytical skills would you bring to the team here?

13.At Lewis Silkin Solicitors, employee satisfaction is very important. To ensure that you would be happy here, what brings you satisfaction in your day to day work?

14.Talk about a creative way that you helped ease the tax burden for a business during your career. How did you help put this process into place?

15.When we look for diligent and effective people to join our real estate law team here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors, 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

16.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?

17.What are your interests and hobbies outside of work?

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

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

20.Working with clients here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors 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?

21.To ensure that our clients here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors are served in the best way possible, our staff must ensure that they are up to speed on all European and local laws. How do you stay in touch with changes to local and European laws?

22.Here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors, we often have to work with very difficult clients. What would be your steps toward effectively working with a difficult client?