Lawyer Interview Questions

31 Describe an experience when you prepared legal briefs and opinions, and filed appeals in state and federal courts of appeal.
32 Share your approach when examining legal data to determining advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit.
33 Name a time when your patience was tested. How did you keep your emotions in check?
34 How do you balance cooperation with others and independent thinking? Share an example. (Try to determine if the candidate has a cooperative attitude or is otherwise good-natured.)
35 Walk me through how you advise clients concerning business transactions, claim liability, advisability of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, or legal rights and obligations.
36 Share an experience in which you successfully coordinated with others. How about a coordination effort that was not as successful?
37 Share an experience in which your willingness to lead or offer an opinion helped your company.
38 What is the key to success when negotiating settlements of civil disputes? Share an example.
39 Describe methods you have found effective when preparing and draft legal documents, such as wills, deeds, patent applications, mortgages, leases, and contracts.
40 Provide a time when you worked in a rapidly evolving workplace. How did you deal with the change? (Make sure the candidate is flexible.)
41 Name a time when you conferred with colleagues with specialties in appropriate areas of legal issue to establish and verified bases for legal proceedings.
42 Name a time when your creativity or alternative thinking solved a problem in your workplace.
43 Tell me how you probate wills and represent and advise executors and administrators of estates.
44 Provide an experience in which you were sensitive to somone's needs or feelings. How did your helpfulness affect your work environment?
45 Provide an experience in which your ability to actively find ways to help people improved your company or your own work ethic.

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