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What information do you want to learn from the interviewing when interviewing for a position out of law school?

What information do you think the interviewer should learn from you?

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1. Work flow.
2. Insurance costs.
3. Structure for making partner.
4. Work from home policy
5. Non billable things that go towards billable hours
6. Bonus structure
7. Hours requirement.
8. Travel percentage
9. Reimbursement for Travel

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Case handling
Open door policy (new associates are going to ask a lot of questions and want to know that questions at work/ re assignments are welcome)
Firm expectations
Resources (i.e. templates for assignments, document library)
What their day to day will look like
Training opportunities

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Transparency about expectations and what the associate will actually be doing.

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Staffing (i.e., am I working with mid levels or partners?), open door policy, work from home policies and practice, billable hours (like the actual requirement, not the one the recruiters want students to know).

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I would have liked to tone down the intimidation factor and talked more about who I’d actually be working with and the types of files I’d be on instead of worrying like hell whether they’d like me.

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Probably depends on the type of job you’re applying for. If you’re going to be a “real lawyer” meaning the kind of lawyer that goes to court to handle things, trial experience is going to be a big topic. Those that did extensive clinic work or interned at firms that allowed you to go to court with the partner/associate will do fairly well in this category.

But if you’re gonna work as a paper pusher in a big-money law firm, I would defer to what other associates might suggest.

Lol is that all some people do? I doubt it. At any rate, seems like a pretty important thing to do. By your definition almost every lawyer (litigators included) who writes emails to their client is a paper pusher.

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