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What are your interests and hobbies outside of work?

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

While this question can be a pretty standard interview question, the motivation of the interviewer here is two-fold. First, law firms can often operate like a family and life at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison is no different. Your interviewer will be looking to see if you will be a cultural and personal fit with the team so be sure to be open and honest with what personally interests you. Second, having personal interests that tie into the organization is important so be sure to do your research on Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison and the job and try to think of hobbies of your that directly relate to them.

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.

"My biggest passion when I'm not advocating for clients is being outdoors. My family and I are avid hikers, kayakers and bikers and we spend all of the time we can in the great outdoors. For me personally, being outside really helps me re-energize and prepare for a new day ahead on the job. Other than being outside, another hobby of mine is reading and I've been very entranced lately in historical books about the drafting of the United States Constitution."

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27Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison Interview Questions & Answers

1.What kind of people do you enjoy working with?

2.One common legal aspect that we work closely on with clients here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison is zoning for large scale construction and/or purchases. What experience do you have in working with local zoning laws?

3.Talk about a recent time on the job you were working under pressure or stress. How did you cope with that situation and ensure everything was handled smoothly?

4.When a problem arises, what is your first reaction?

5.To be successful here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, 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?

6.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?

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

8.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?

9.Here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, we often have to work with very difficult clients. What would be your steps toward effectively working with a difficult client?

10.To ensure that our clients here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison 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 fe

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

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

13.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?

14.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?

15.With our diverse range of clients here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, are there any specific areas of intellectual property law that interest you the most?

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

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

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

19.If hired here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, how would you best build trusting relationships with our clients?

20.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?

21.To better help serve our diverse client base here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, do you have an area of sub-specialization that you would prefer to focus on if hired?

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

23.When we look for diligent and effective people to join our real estate law team here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, the ability to effectively research legal options and write contracts are vital to our success as a firm. Talk about your

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

25.Do you have any experience in working with tenancy and leasing laws?

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

27.Working with clients here at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison 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?