Legal Researcher practice interview
Researching legislation and case law, testing authority, synthesising competing sources and writing concise legal analysis. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A Legal Researcher finds and tests legal authority, resolves difficult questions and turns the result into useful written analysis. The interview looks for a disciplined search method, accurate treatment of sources, concise writing and honesty about ambiguity or gaps in the available law.
How to prepare
- Practise breaking a broad instruction into issues, jurisdictions, search terms and likely primary sources.
- Prepare an example where later research changed your initial view of the answer.
- Revise how you check whether legislation is in force and whether a case remains persuasive or binding.
- Edit a previous research note so its issue, conclusion, reasoning and limitations are easy to find.
- Be ready to explain how you record searches and verify every citation.
Common mistakes
- Stopping after finding one source that supports the expected answer.
- Treating a summary or commentary as a substitute for checking primary authority.
- Hiding uncertainty instead of explaining why the answer is qualified.
- Producing a long chronology of sources without a clear conclusion.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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