Now that you have secured an interview, make sure to do a deep dive at the law firm's website about their corporate/transactions department(s) - look for patterns:

• major clients/recent deals - industry or financial sector specializations? 
• recent or open lateral hires - where is the firm seeking to grow or deepen its practice?
• marketing materials - how does the firm describe its practice and core strengths? What niche markets does it identify?

Chambers | Associate - this "Student's Guide to the Legal Profession" offers quick charts on diversity and rankings, and summer program projections. The Bonus Features tab for a firm often includes tips from recruiters and recent summer associates. Participation by law firm recruiters means you are seeing the firm in the way they would like to be presented to prospective summer associates, so with that caveat in mind, dig in.

Bloomberg Law offers a variety of tools to help you get an overview of a firm's practice profile -

• Bloomberg's 4-minute video on using a Transactional Precedent Search to obtain overview information about both large and boutique firms' corporate practice
• League Tables - top 20 firms in a variety of deal categories
• Deal Analytics - review major transactions by law firm or attorney; search by Advisors (firm) or Advisor (individual). Provides documents and background information on M&A and equity offerings. 

Lexis+ Market Standards - database of publicly filed transactions with coverage of M&A for over 33,000 deals from the last ten years. Click More Filters to search by law firm. 

Many leading law firms and specialty practices publish client advisories, newsletters, and other literature focused on their topical areas of expertise and business development focus (and some even assign summer associates to work on updating and adding publications). Some good sources to browse for large law firm literature: 

• Bloomberg Law's large collection of Law Firm Client Alerts - search by firm name (search box at top) and filter by date (left).
• Law 360 - results on a law firm name search may include both news about the firm and Expert Analysis articles authored by lawyers within the firm.  
• Lexis+ Law Firm Memos - over 100,000 law firm memos on current legal issues, updated daily, from more than 200 of the top law firms. Search by firm, practice area, text string, or date.
• Lexology.com - a free web-based source of legal updates, insights, and analyses published by over 900 law firms across 50 work areas. Refine search results by law firm, work area, or jurisdiction. Allows users to register and customize daily updates in specific legal areas. Consider checking this source again the day before your interview, in case of late-breaking news from your firm.

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