Legal Recruit

 

Legal Recruit is a novel, innovative and independent website which provides practice psychometric assessments for law students applying to City firms.

 

 
 

Have a look at our free factsheets and videos on the verbal reasoning tests, situational judgement tests and how to complete the online application form; click here.

Here are some examples to get you started!

At the end of December 2010, we published our first free book of 150 worked examples of verbal reasoning – you can download the book here.

At the end of April 2011, we published our second free book of 150 worked examples of verbal reasoning – you can download the book here.

You can immediately take a full online practice verbal reasoning test for free. You’ll be presented with 30 questions of the ‘TRUE’, ‘FALSE’ and ‘CANNOT SAY’ variety. After this, you’ll get a full report.

To take the trial, you should follow the instructions on the lower half of this page.

After you register, you need to login using your unique username and password, you can then do the trial assessment by going to ‘Assessments’ on the navigation bar.  If you register to be a member of Legal Recruit (top half of the page), by paying £10 through a secure server, you’ll get unlimited access to our huge bank of verbal reasoning and situational judgement test questions. This is extremely good value, as the website is enjoyable to use and the questions are of very high quality. You will get a detailed report for all tests giving your total score, including the score according to our reference population, not anyone else’s.

Verbal reasoning tests examine your ability to make safe deductions about verbal information in timed conditions. With practice, you can get better and better at them. Most, if not all, City firms use them at some stage in their application process. It’s worth getting good at them, as even if you have good exam results and work experience, you may not be given a chance to attend for interview.

 Some firms also use ‘situational judgement tests’ designed to see how you would react in common scenarios as a trainee in commercial or corporate law. We have similar tests which you can use to see how well your behaviour matches up to the competences looked for by corporate firms. Even if the firm you’re applying to doesn’t use them, it’s worth getting a feel for the competences which they’re based on, which most people agree are shared by successful trainees.

 

Membership

Secure membership gives you a chance to do unto 15 full-length online verbal reasoning tests and 4 full-length situational judgement tests. You can see what others think of our tests here.

You’ll get full explanations to the questions in the form of reports which you can access any time. All scores are also given a normative-reference score, so that you can see where you would be in relation to a graduate-level population. Each test is individually compiled for you in a special way, but always so that you will receive questions from 15 different subject areas. We score the percentiles in “live time”, so that your score is always compared  to the reference population of the total number of people who have taken the Legal Recruit trial test at that particular time.

All results are confidential, and only known to you (not even us). Accordingly, your data will never be passed onto a third party.

 

Books

Book 1 is “300 online verbal reasoning questions for law firm applicants” and Book 2 is “80 situational judgement questions for law applicants” published by Legal Recruit Press, 10 December 2011.

We have two unique books on the verbal reasoning and situational judgement tests giving useful tips about the competences behind these tests, and fully worked examples. To look at the details of these books, and to pay for them securely, please go to this part of the website.

Sample materials from these two books can be downloaded for free : Book 1 Legal Recruit Sample and Book 2 Legal Recruit Sample.


 

What you need

You may prefer to study in your own time, when you’re on a break between the lectures, or on the bus or Tube.

You can print all of our materials on a Mac or a PC easily, if you have Adobe Reader (freely downloadable from here).

To play the videos in high-quality, you will have to download Adobe Flash Player for free your web browser  - however we have also provided the videos in a format that you can watch on an ipad.

 

 

 

Apply now!

This brilliant page (@AllAboutCareers) offers a gateway for you to make your application for a training contract. If you’ve done the LPC, you will need to complete successfully a training contract in order that you may be admitted to the Roll of Solicitors by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. ‘Legal Recruit’ is an independent website, and you are of course free to use this information entirely as you see fit. ‘Legal Recruit’ is in no way affiliated with ‘All About Careers’, though many followers of @tc_applications also follow @AllAboutCareers.