Insider guidance for the legal careers that matter.
Strategic advice and mock interviews for students targeting training contracts at top firms in Hong Kong and the UK — from people who have sat on the hiring side of the table.
Free · 15 minutes · no obligation
Most preparation focuses on the wrong things.
Students arrive at vacation schemes ready to perform — primed on IPO mechanics, drilled on the perfect 'why this firm' answer, anxious about whatever final assessment their firm has chosen to run.
But the offer is rarely decided on those things. It's decided on the pattern of behaviour across the scheme, on the conversations supervisors have with each other on Friday afternoons, on whether the team would actually want this person on their desk for two years.
We work with students who want to understand the whole picture — not just rehearse the parts they can see.
We offer a small, deliberately limited set of services. Each is designed for a specific moment in your interview journey.
Strategy Session
A 15-minute conversation about your situation, with no obligation. Useful before you choose any further engagement.
Free · 15 minutes
Mock Application Interview
A 60-minute mock of the HR-led or single-interviewer round that opens most firms' vacation scheme process.
HK$2,500 · 60 minutes
Mock Senior Lawyer Interview
A 60-minute mock with one of our senior practitioners — for the associate or counsel-led interviews common at vacation scheme stage.
HK$3,500 · 60 minutes
Mock Partner Interview
A 60-minute mock with a serving or recently serving partner at a leading international or PRC law firm — calibrated to your target practice and firm type.
HK$5,500 · 60 minutes
Guided Partner Interview Preparation
A multi-session engagement combining prep, a partner-led mock interview, written feedback, and a live debrief.
HK$7,500 · multi-session
We work with a limited number of students per cycle. Engagement begins with a Strategy Session.
Our approach.
Foundation before technique.
The right preparation isn't a polished surface — it's an honest understanding of what's actually being assessed, and why. Technique matters, and we'll work on it. But technique without the right underlying picture rarely lands. We start with the foundation, then we sharpen the technique.
The work is done by people who have sat on the hiring side.
Our interview panel is drawn from serving and former partners at leading international and PRC law firms, alongside senior lawyers in active practice and in-house roles — all with extensive Hong Kong and UK experience. All work with us under professional non-disclosure, which is why you won't find their names on this page — and why their feedback is as candid as it is.
A career, not just an offer.
The training contract you accept matters as much as the one you're offered. We talk honestly with students about fit, not just conversion — about which firms suit them, which don't, and why. A career is too long, and a training contract too formative, to be built around the first offer that comes along.
Free reading: The Training Contract Offer Checklist
What firms actually assess across a vacation scheme — and what they don't.
It sets out the six signals firms quietly score across a scheme, the moments that settle an offer before the final week, and the preparation genuinely worth your time. Written for students who'd rather know than guess.