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Presumably you’ll be meeting with a number of people back to back. One challenge here is being comfortable saying the exact same thing to multiple people.
I had one that was about 2 hours before and it consisted of 2 different groups of people who interviewed me one group right after the other, with about 3 people in each group. Covered your basic stuff: run through of my resume/questions about my past experience, my career goals, cultural fit/work expectations related questions, and a portion for me to ask questions. A small tip I got before is make sure you decide before you go in if you’re going to shake everyone’s hand or just do a general wave/hello (when being interviewed by a panel) it avoids any awkward moments at the start helps put you at little at ease 🤷♀️
What is your background/experience and how does that align with what the employer needs? (Depending on the position, maybe # of trials, depos, motions, briefs, etc) During your time in the legal field, what assignment are you the most proud of and why? What’s the biggest mistake you’ve made as an attorney and how did you resolve it? What are your strengths/weaknesses? What motivates you? What do you find most challenging about your present job? Why are you leaving your present position (and any others in the legal field)? What would your current employer need to change if they wanted to keep you in your current position? What are you hoping the new position will provide that is lacking from your present one? What work environment do you believe is best for you (remote, in-person, hybrid) and why? What kinds of tasks are you comfortable doing with little or no supervision? What do you need from your supervisor to be successful? Describe a conflict or difficult situation with a co-worker and how you handled it. What aspects of firm culture are most important to you? Describe a situation in which you were criticized, and how you responded. Tell me about a time you went above the call of duty. Why should we hire you? What do you bring to this job? What were your annual billable hours for the last 3 years (and probably your present comp and/or expected salary for the position applied for if speaking with a hiring partner)? What are your career goals and plan for getting there? Are you interviewing elsewhere and/or received any other offers?
You could get questions specific to the area of law for the position you are applying for, e.g. if I need to know how comfortable you are with federal court practice, I could ask you how you determine whether you have diversity jurisdiction and what the time table is for removal.
And, of course, you can get the questions that seem totally off topic but are really designed to find out about your personality, like one firm where I used to work would ask every candidate, if you were an animal, what would you be? (And with that group, some kind of dog was always the right answer. If it was a lab, you were probably hired on the spot. BTW, worst answer by far was “a rabbit because my girlfriend pays more attention to her rabbit than me.” Um, way to over share…
Multiple hours? How many hours exactly?
All the standard stuff, including discussion of experience, strengths, weaknesses, goals, culture/fit. I had a mixture of panel interview and one-on-ones with people from various levels and roles on the teams, from first year associates through senior partner. Some of them liked to focus on the writing sample, others seemed more concerned with personality and fit. My interviews went longer because, apparently two groups were interested and involved in the process.