I’m starting to prepare for interviews and I’m wondering if anyone has any advice for what I should expect for questions. My last experience interviewing was while I was in law school, so the questions revolved around law school classes, practice area I’d like to be in, and general conversation getting to know me. With a few years of actual legal experience under my belt, what questions can I expect? For context, I mostly work in M&A/private equity.

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Why do you want to leave where you are? What about our firm attracted you? Why do you want to work with/in this group? What type of work (task wise) were you doing? Be prepared to ask at least five questions. Make sure to have reviewed each interviewers background.

You'll always get "tell us about your work in your firm" and "why us", in my experience

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