Hill Dickinson 2020/2021

[Num]

Hi guys, during the pandemic I attended the Bright Network internship for commercial awareness and one of the sessions involved legal drafting/research. The 'lecturer' very kindly made available her slides and comments to everyone who attended. I happened to find it just now and was surprised I still have this, so I thought it may be very useful for those who have written exercises tomorrow to take a look as some points are good! Let me know how you get on 🤞

 

[Christina93]

Mine does too. It says we need to be on call and on mute. So I’m unsure if it means to be sharing screens or camera on. The actually written exercise we are to do on our own word (with many options disabled) and then email across - all within the hour?

So I think we have an hour from the moment we open the document to write our answers and then a 10 min leeway at the end to email it. That's what I gathered based on the timings they gave in my instructions.

 

[liverpoollawyer]

Hey guys I had it this morning it’s absolutely fine you just have your camera on for the whole time you do it!

 

[WAH]

Made so many spelling mistakes

 

[WAH]

Hoping HR are bright enough to realise the ones who turned off spell check and the ones who cheated

 

[anaa]

Hey guys I had it this morning it’s absolutely fine you just have your camera on for the whole time you do it!

Hi! Did you have to share your screen - was the task fairly straightforward?! I’m stressing!!!

 

[anaa]

Hoping HR are bright enough to realise the ones who turned off spell check and the ones who cheated

How would they not know?

 

[Num]

Hey guys I had it this morning it’s absolutely fine you just have your camera on for the whole time you do it!

That’s a relieve to hear it was fine!! May I ask if the task was straight forward too?

 

[liverpoollawyer]

Hi! Did you have to share your screen - was the task fairly straightforward?! I’m stressing!!!

That’s a relieve to hear it was fine!! May I ask if the task was straight forward too?

Hey nope just camera on prob to check your identity etc! Yeah straight forward try not to worry

 

[WAH]

How would they not know?

I find it hard to believe that anyone would have perfect spelling and grammar doing that exercise in such a small amount of time. Unless you’re a genius

 

[Num]

Made so many spelling mistakes

I think they will expect this, especially if you actually turned off spellcheck too😅 wouldn’t worry! How did you find the task?

 

[Num]

Hey nope just camera on prob to check your identity etc! Yeah straight forward try not to worry

That’s not bad, was it a group call or just you and someone on their end? Either way sounds like no hassle

 

[liverpoollawyer]

Just one big call but you’re automatically on mute etc so you soon forget about it anyway

That’s not bad, was it a group call or just you and someone on their end? Either way sounds like no hassle

 

[anaa]

Just one big call but you’re automatically on mute etc so you soon forget about it anyway

I’m so glad that you found it alright - hope you’re doing something relaxing for the later part of ur day lol xxxx

 

[Martin S.]

Has anybody had their written exercise already done?

 

[Wannabelawyer10]

I'm disabling spellcheck too, don't want any bad karma from cheating!

 

[anaa]

I'm disabling spellcheck too, don't want any bad karma from cheating!

Me too - have a feeling they’ll defo have a way of checking😬

 

[Andrew M]

Me too - have a feeling they’ll defo have a way of checking😬

There may be a way of checking whether it was disabled on the document?

I'm actually a little worried because I just checked mine back after finishing and there are zero spelling mistakes. And no *real* grammar mistakes, apart from a couple of sentences where the suggested wording is more 'concise'. So I'm hoping they do have a way of checking because I wouldn't want to be accused of cheating. I didn't - I just kept things nice and simple.

I really enjoyed the exercise though, I have to say!

 

[anaa]

There may be a way of checking whether it was disabled on the document?

I'm actually a little worried because I just checked mine back after finishing and there are zero spelling mistakes. And no *real* grammar mistakes, apart from a couple of sentences where the suggested wording is more 'concise'. So I'm hoping they do have a way of checking because I wouldn't want to be accused of cheating. I didn't - I just kept things nice and simple.

I really enjoyed the exercise though, I have to say!

I’ll hold you to that🤣🤣🤣 I hope I feel like that too

 

[Wannabelawyer10]

What the recruiters see when I'm doing the exercise 😭