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Does anyone have any experience/advice with this from previous years? Appreciate this process is still rather new, so for reference this is what I have been told I will be assessed on: Work simulation tasks – tasks based on real scenarios you may encounter at Freshfields. Video response questions – short recorded answers to real-life situations. Any/all advice would be super helpful, find video interviews much harder than in person ones.

Another Kirkland & Ellis (New York) interview. This time for the 2027 New York Summer Associate Program. One of my students just received this email. Here's what most candidates don't understand about US law firm applications: Kirkland & Ellis receives thousands of applications for a handful of spots. They're not looking for "good" candidates. They're looking for candidates who demonstrate: ↳ Commercial fluency — not textbook definitions, but real understanding of how Kirkland's private equity clients think about deals, risk, and value creation ↳ Clear data points — your CV must show a pattern of interest in corporate law and finance, not random experiences ↳ Precise answers — "Why Kirkland & Ellis?" cannot be generic. You need to articulate why Kirkland's full-service model for private equity sponsors matters to YOU This student built their application using our proprietary frameworks: → VTMR™ to structure their CV (Value, Transferability, Metrics, Relevance) → PEAL-X™ to answer "Why Kirkland & Ellis?" with specificity → Commercial Fluency™ to speak confidently about Kirkland's deals and clients The result? A virtual interview invite to meet with three Kirkland & Ellis attorneys. If you're applying to US law firms in London or New York — Kirkland & Ellis, White & Case, Sidley Austin, Ropes & Gray — your application must be engineered to stand out. We call this Offer-Engineering for Elite Careers™. — I'm Hassan Akram, founder of Elite Careers Strategy. I help candidates land training contracts, vacation schemes, and summer associate offers at Magic Circle law firms, US law firms, and top investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. DM me "KIRKLAND" if you want to learn how we prepare students for US law firm applications.

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