They love to pretend they’re busier than fee earners and in that way somehow justify their existence – so what better opportunity for the fair folk of human resources (HR) to show their mettle than to help prepare interview questions to fire at potential trainees?

Given that the training contract interviews don’t really take place all that often, you might think they would have time to come up with some decent questions. Not always so, according to research for the upcoming issue of Legal Week Student.