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Drill it dailyA short, repeatable loop of market stories, interview prompts and AI feedback. Five minutes is enough to keep it live.
Know the story. Build the answer
Briefed gives you three ways in: learn how commercial mechanics actually work, react to live market stories with trainee-style prompts, and drill a dedicated question bank, all graded by AI feedback that shows exactly how to sharpen your answer. Every bit of it is built around your target firms to best assist you for your own personalised journey.
M&A
5 min read
Private equity slows, strategy buyers return.
Why higher financing costs change deal structure, diligence priorities, and the work flowing into corporate teams.
Interview prompt
Explain how this trend could affect a City law firm's M&A and banking departments.Your answer
Higher rates make leveraged buyouts harder to finance, so strategic buyers with stronger balance sheets may be more competitive.
For law firms, that means more advice on earn-outs, financing conditions, and refinancing risk.
AI marking
4.2
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Strong commercial link. Add one client example and separate the M&A impact from the banking impact.
What worked
Connects market pressure to practice groups.
Next upgrade
Name a client decision: pause, refinance, restructure.
Model structure
Issue -> client impact -> legal work -> view.
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Built around youYour firms, your practice areas, your archetype. Briefed learns what you're actually aiming for before it teaches you anything.
Topic score0 – 5
Progress you can seeEvery attempt is scored and tracked by topic, so you know what's strong and what still needs a rep.
Matched to your firms.
Marked like an interview
Start with the commercial issue
Briefed explains the business event, the client pressure behind it, and why a law firm would care. No vague “keep up with the news” energy.
Learn how the mechanics work
Before you're asked to react to a story, Briefed explains the concept behind it: deal structures, financing mechanics, the regulatory levers that decide who wins. Short, concise explainers, not a wall of theory.
Turn the issue into an interview response
Questions ask you to connect facts to departments, client decisions, risk, revenue, and your own reasoned view: the stuff that makes an answer feel trainee-ready.
Know exactly what to fix next
The AI marks your answer like a demanding but useful coach: what you did well, what you missed, how to tighten structure, and what a stronger answer might sound like.
Everything adapts to you
Once Briefed knows your firms, practice areas and performance, your preparation becomes personalised. Market stories, interview questions and explainers are prioritised around what matters to you, so you always know what to work on next.
And more on the way
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Commercial explainers, not just headlines
Available nowShort written explainers across every practice area, each ending in a quick recall test, so you build the foundations behind the news rather than just skimming it.
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Scenario-based interview questions
Coming soonLonger, multi-part scenarios that mirror how partners actually probe a candidate's reasoning, beyond single knowledge-check prompts.
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Spoken answers
Coming soonRecord your answer out loud and have it transcribed and marked, so you're practising for the format the real interview actually uses.