Group 4 Interview Questions : Public Interest/NGO/Advocacy

Interview Flow

A. Law School
B. Preparing and Taking the Bar
C. Career Proper
D. Final Word

A. Law School
1. Did you find yourself pursuing a career in the legal profession from a young age?
2. Were you a full-time or working student?
3. Would you say that being a (full-time / working) student was advantageous on
your part?
4. Are you a member of a certain organization/fraternity in your years as a law
student? If yes, did it help you significantly in your law school days?
5. Was there a time in your law school life where you questioned your decision to
pursue law and even considered discontinuing it? If yes, what made you stay and
finish law school?

B. Preparing and Taking the Bar Exams

1. After graduating, how did you approach the review process in preparation for the
bar exams?
2. What to do before the bar exams?
3. How did you cope, during the time that you prepared and took the Bar Exams?
4. What were the challenges you faced?
5. What advice will you give to future bar reviewees?

C. Career Proper
1. After passing the Bar exams, how did you start your legal career?
2. Being a member of an organization/fraternity, would you say that it has helped
you land a job immediately or even later after graduation?
3. What was your first job as a newbie lawyer?
4. What field or fields of law did you pursue? How many years in each field?
5. What inspired or drove you to pursue your current advocacy work in the public
interest sector? What are your motivations?
6. While Studying in Law School, where did you see yourself venturing into
afterwards, a career in the govt service sector, corporate and private enterprise
sector, or non government, public interest and advocacy sector?
7. What is your advocacy?
8. How are you able to pursue your advocacy?
9. How can one join in your group?
10. How were you able to connect with a group which supports your advocacy?
11. Did you encounter any legal issues or conflicts as pertains to your advocacy
work, and how did you handle it?
12. Is a legal career in the public service sector fulfilling?

D. Final Words
1. Any advice for would be lawyers, law students who would want to pursue a
similar career path in the public interest sector?
2. Would you recommend new lawyers to pursue a career in legal advocacy work?
3. Any Lawyering advice for future lawyers?