Legal hiring, measured.
Legal hiring rewards precision and judgment. Prelim measures research, drafting, and reasoning through realistic work samples — so you see how a candidate thinks, not just where they studied.
Pedigree isn't the same as judgment.
Legal hiring has historically leaned hard on where a candidate went to school and where they've worked, because those signals were easier to check than actual reasoning ability. Prelim measures the thing that actually matters — how a candidate researches, drafts, and reasons through an unfamiliar fact pattern under real time pressure — so firms can widen the funnel without lowering the bar.
Choose your hiring track.
The hiring problems that matter in legal — one platform, one scoring model.
Roles we help you hire.
Representative job titles Prelim assesses for legal, grouped by track.
What Prelim assesses in Legal.
- Legal research & analysis
- Contract drafting work samples
- Compliance reasoning
- Governance judgment
The full product catalog.
Every module below is available for legal hiring, feeding the same scoring model as your chosen track.
A real hiring scenario.
Writing samples from prior firms said little about how a candidate reasons under time pressure on unfamiliar fact patterns.
Prelim scored a live contract-drafting exercise and a compliance-reasoning scenario against the same rubric every partner on the panel had reviewed in advance.
Questions legal teams ask us.
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