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Part 2: Why Law?

This is a horrible question I wish I was never asked.

• It is a personal one and the answers will vary.
• The way I found my answer was I thought back to the first time I thought yes, I can do this as a career and the reasons why. For me it wasn’t until the end of my first year when I had a particularly gruelling seminar on EU Constitutional law, and I realised that I was still excited at the prospect of studying it. So, how could I even think about doing anything else?
• Again be honest about it, everyone has been in your position so even if you think it is a shallow answer the honesty might be refreshing for them. But I always try to keep a personal story in there to make it less artificial and less rehearsed.
• Other things you can do to pad out the answer:
• Pick elements of the job that you think align with you: complex problem-solving, creative thinking, client interactions etc…
• Show, if you can, how this fits your personality, that you enjoy it and a bit of evidence on how you worked out you liked these things. (I realised I liked negotiations when I negotiated with my parents to let me go to law school in the first-place kind of deal. – true story rip)
• This approach allows you to not only demonstrate that you are good for the role but also that you understand the role.