Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a full-service law firm with 12 international offices located primarily in Europe's four major economies. The firm hires about 45 trainees each year.

Key Work Areas

Corporate, intellectual property, finance & projects, real estate, litigation and dispute resolution, employment & pensions, private client.

International Offices

Taylor Wessing has offices in Berlin, Brussels, Cambridge, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Munich and Paris. The firm also has representative offices in Alicante, Shanghai and an associated office in Dubai.

Interview Questions

The application and assessment process at Taylor Wessing is as follows:

• Online application
• Assessment centre
• Final interview

Assessment Centre

The Taylor Wessing assessment centre consists of:

• Meet and greet
• Group exercise
• SHL verbal reasoning test

Meet and Greet

Once candidates have arrived they will sign-in at reception and be taken into a room with all other candidates (about five to eight people). Your name will be placed at a desk where you should sit. Taylor Wessing will have pre-assigned you into teams.

Group Exercise

Two people will be assessing you during the group exercise. One person will be from HR and the other will probably be a partner or associate. Candidates will be given a scenario which varies from assessment to assessment. Previous candidates have been asked to analyse lateral hires of partners from other law firms. One team will be assigned with the the pro's (advantages) of lateral hires while the other will be assigned with the con's (disadvantages).

You will be given 25 minutes to plan, five minutes to put through your argument, five minutes to question the other team and five minutes to be questioned. You will also be questioned for five minutes by the HR employee and associate/partner.

Candidates should aim to demonstrate as much commercial awareness as possible during the group exercise, and will be expected to know about things such as what a board of directors is and does, and what a 'lateral' hire is. Candidates should also have general knowledge about whatever is going on in the legal world, at the time of your assessment centre.

SHL Test

After the group exercise you will be given a 15 minute break and then taken to another room to sit an SHL verbal reasoning test.