Charles Russell

Charles Russel is a UK based law firm, with two offices in London, and further offices in Guildford, Oxford, Geneva and Bahrain.

The interview and assessment process at Charles Russell is as follows:

• Group exercise
• Role play scenario
• Interview

Group Exercise

Candidates will be asked to talk about current commercial awareness topics for 5-10 minutes. Then one person will be asked to summarise the thoughts of the group.

Role Play

Candidates will be given a scenario and asked to say how they would deal with it. This will be a one-to-one exercise with one of your assessors. You will need to ask appropriate questions to find out specific information at the start of this exercise.

Interview

The interview will be taken by a partner and a member of the HR team. Candidates should expect a mixture of questions, including competency based questions, commercial awareness questions and some quite off-the-wall questions.

Previous candidates have been asked:

• How does the stock exchange work?
• Who would you most like to have dinner with?