Lewis Silkin Solicitors Interview Questions
Go Back1. 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
2. Do you have any experience in working with tenancy and leasing laws?
3. Do you have any particular areas of wage and hour laws that particularly interest you?
4. When a problem arises, what is your first reaction?
5. If hired here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors, how would you best build trusting relationships with our clients?
6. What was your motivation for pursuing a career in the field of law/legal services?
7. Talk about the most difficult work situation you have found yourself in and explain how you used sound judgement to find a great outcome?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. 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?
11. What do you feel is the most important skill that you possess that makes you effective in the litigation/arbitration process?
12. Where do you feel you could use some improvement in the litigation/arbitration process at this point in your career?
13. What are your interests and hobbies outside of work?
14. 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?
15. 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?
16. 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?
17. 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?
18. 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?
19. 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?
20. What in particular about our firm here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors interests you both personally and professionally?
21. What do you consider to be the most difficult case or project you have worked on during your career?
22. 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?
23. 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?
24. Have you been involved in a corporate tax audit before? What did you learn from that experience?
25. 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?
26. What would make you a great trial advocate if you were to join the team here at Lewis Silkin Solicitors?
27. 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?
28. Talk about a time your ethics were challenged on the job. How do you react to those situations in the legal profession?