How "technical" should I expect interviews to be for a 5th - 7th year technology transactions BigLaw position? Spent my entire career at one firm and I'm not used to answering questions on the spot (because clients pay us to take time researching/writing out our advice/work product).

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Regardless of your interview, it is good to practice being in the hot seat. As you get more senior that is more and more of your job.

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Yes, just had that with a new client where the CEO was unexpectedly on the call. It is an excellent skill to practice.

At that level? I would be surprised if you didn’t get hammered with a few technical advanced questions. Maybe you can brush up on your knowledge a little bit

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I definitely need to study up but I'm so intimidated about where to start!

The rule of thumb is to prepare to be drilled on your technical skills. I’ve had several of these at those levels and it really depends on the interviewing partner. Some focused on that and others don’t. If you share a bit more details about the firm (or type of firm), might be able to share more. I’ve interviewed with most types, east coast and west coast.

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I am a first year associate. What is difference between east coast firm and west coast firm?

I interview candidates at that level and I am definitely asking at least two or three technical questions. And none of those require hours of research.

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@A3 can you frame that better? It's hard to follow what you're asking

We used to ask generic questions on how to handle a tech contact negotiations such as SLAs, general indemnifications questions and data security questions and we expect the candidates would be familiar with those after years of practice

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This is helpful, thank you! Feels a little less intimidating when you phrase it like that. Except for the data security stuff... at my firm we were expected to pretty much "call the Privacy team" whenever data security / data privacy stuff came up. Oh well, nothing I can't study!

Depends on the firm. When I was moving to V5 as a rising fifth year, got drilled on technical questions. Then was moving as a rising 7th, to another V5, didn’t get asked any technical questions but could be possibly bc they already saw where I was coming from so didn’t feel the need to

Haha this is helpful because I'm at a firm where you'd definitely expect us to be super technical. But I guess I'll just prepare for either case!

For a transactional role, just imagine it’s one of your clients calling with an ad hoc question. That happens to me all the time.

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