Hill Dickinson

Hill Dickinson is a UK legal firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London and Chester. The firm specialises in shipping law.

Training Contract interviews take place in each of the firm's four offices. Each firm's interview process is roughly similar:

• Presentation
• Formal lunch
• Written exercise
• Interview
• Group discussion

Presentation

At the start of the presentation exercise, each candidate will be given an envelope with a different topic inside. Each candidate will then have 10-15 minutes to prepare a short presentation on the subject they have selected. The firm's assessors will then randomly call candidates to give their presentation in front of everybody else.

The presentation topics vary a great deal and range from "shopping" to "gangs" to "drugs".

Lunch

This lunch is quite formal. Be polite, and ask intelligent questions if you are sitting near to current employees of Hill Dickinson.

Written Exercise

After lunch all candidates are asked to meet in the same room. Everybody is then asked to start a written exercise, whilst individual candidates are called for interview. There will be plenty of time to complete the written task.

Interview

Recent interview questions candidates have been asked include:

• Why do you want to work for Hill Dickinson?
• Why should we hire you?
• Tell us about our recent cases.

Group Discussion

Previous topics of discussion at Hill Dickinson have been:

.."At a horse race, two jockeys collide and a third gets injured. This hapened because one horse was too close to another coming round a bend. The general rule in horse racing is that you should not cut across another horse if it is dangerous to do so. Who do you think was at fault and should the other parties be able to sue for injuries and loss of earnings?"..

.."If you were in charge of a new country, what two constitutional rules would you create and why?"..