Applying to Skadden's 2028 summer associate program in the US? Skadden asks you to complete a Suited assessment as part of your application. Try Suited's tests below in the real format, then read what it measures, how long it takes, who sees your results and how to prepare for each part.
Key facts
- Required: Skadden asks everyone applying to its US offices to complete a brief online assessment from Suited, and calls it a requirement of the application process.1,2
- What it is for: In Skadden's words, the assessment helps it learn more about candidates and see how your goals and values align with the firm's.1
- When: Instructions for Suited arrive after you submit your Skadden application. You can also build your Suited profile in advance.2,4
- Time: About 30 minutes once you have registered and verified your account. It is free for candidates.4
- Parts: A cognitive part on attention to detail, critical reasoning and logical reasoning, with right answers, and a behavioral part on how you work, with no single right profile.4
- Retakes: You can retake it every 9 months, which means once per recruiting cycle. Treat your first sitting as the one firms will see.4
- Who sees it: Only the firms you authorize see your results, and no firm can see where else you applied. Firm access ends when you graduate.4
- How it is used: Firms read your results alongside your resume, transcript and interview feedback. Suited does not make hiring decisions or accept or reject anyone.4,6
Each firm reads your results against its own model of the attorneys who thrive there, so the same results can fit some firms better than others. There is no universal pass mark.4
Try the tests
Suited's three cognitive tests and its behavioral part, a few questions each at the real test's pace, on the same screens as the app. Each one opens in its own window, with a report at the end.
Attention to detail
Two timed parts: are two strings exactly the same, then which of four sets match a first one character for character.
19 questions · 1:35
Logical reasoning
One or two facts and four conclusions. Mark each True, False or Uncertain from the facts alone.
12 conclusions · 2:00
Critical thinking
Number sequences with one term missing. Find the rule and type the number.
5 series · 1:30
Behavioral assessment
Statements, pairs and points on how you work. No right answers and no clock.
8 questions · no clock
What the Skadden online assessment looks like
The invite
Apply to Skadden first. Instructions for the Suited assessment follow after you submit, and finishing it is part of a complete application for the US offices. Firms that use Suited invite you when you apply, but you can set up your profile ahead of time.1,2,4
Your profile
You create a free Suited profile with your resume and academic information, then take the assessment. Allow about 30 minutes after registration and account verification, in one quiet stretch.4
The cognitive part
Questions on attention to detail, critical reasoning and logical reasoning, and these have correct answers. The timed sections add up to 15 minutes, each after an untimed sample, and there are more questions than anyone finishes, so give this part your full attention.4,9
The behavioral part
Rating and forced-choice items on how you approach work, collaborate and respond to different demands: your traits, your values and how you handle stress. Answer as you are in a work setting, not with friends, and don't overthink single items; your results come from all your answers together.4,5
Who sees it, and how
You choose which firms can see your results. Skadden reads them against its own model of attorneys who thrive at the firm, alongside your resume, transcript and interviews. Each office's hiring committee then decides.4,3
The two parts of Suited
- Cognitive Right answers
- Attention to detail, critical reasoning and logical reasoning.
- Behavioral No right profile
- Rating and forced-choice items on your work traits, values and stress response style.
- Whole assessment About 30 min
- After registration and verifying your account; free for candidates.
- Retake Every 9 months
- Once per recruiting cycle, so one sitting counts for the whole season.
Suited's current law page gives the length, the parts and the retake rule. Its older blog post describes the behavioral part in more detail: rating and forced-choice items, measured as traits, values and stress response.4,5
Before you start Suited
- Submit your Skadden application first and watch for the Suited instructions.
- Set aside 45 quiet minutes: about 30 for the assessment, plus registration.
- Use a laptop with a stable connection, and silence your phone.
- Warm up on a few reasoning and proofreading problems so the cognitive part feels familiar.
- Ask Suited about accommodations before you begin, not after.
- Decide which firms can see your results when you share them.
The sections, one by one
Suited names the skills its law assessment measures. The cognitive items have right answers; the behavioral items ask how you tend to work and use rating scales and forced choices.4,5
- Attention to detail: Spot what differs or doesn't match, quickly and accurately.
- Critical reasoning: A number series with one term blank: find the rule and type the number.
- Logical reasoning: Work out what must follow from a set of rules or statements.
- Work traits: Rating scale items on effort, collaboration, independence and similar traits.
- Values: What matters to you at work, such as achievement, security or self-direction.
- Stress response: Your usual way of handling tight deadlines and changing priorities.
Here is each part as it appears in Intervyo, on Suited's screens: a plain blue-gray page, an untimed instructions page with a sample before each timed section, and the clock starting only when you select Next. Suited names three cognitive skills for law, attention to detail, critical reasoning and logical reasoning, and a behavioral part on how you work. Each block says what the part checks and how to answer it well.4
1.Attention to detailTwo timed parts
Two parts, each on its own clock. First, rows of paired strings split by a colon, such as erbdaq : erbbaq, and you mark each pair Same or Different. Then a first set of characters and four copies under it, and you tick every exact copy, or No Match. Each part opens on an untimed page with a sample you can check before the clock starts.4,9,11
What it measures: Spotting a one-character change at speed: a swapped letter, a case flip, two neighbors transposed or a changed digit, the errors a citation or a defined term picks up.
How to answer it well
- 1Compare in chunks of two or three characters rather than the whole string at once.
- 2Watch for lookalikes, such as u and v, b and d, G and 6, $ and S, and for a capital letter that has become lowercase.
- 3Settle each row once and move on. Rechecking a row you have already answered costs time you need for the next.
- 4Leave a row blank rather than guess. Suited says wrong answers may count against you.
Best guessSuited does not publish its section times for law. In the one Suited sitting with published screens, a 2024 banking sitting, the two parts ran 1 and 3 minutes, with more rows than anyone finishes.
2.Logical reasoningTimed section
One or two facts at the top, then four conclusions under them. You mark each conclusion True if the facts guarantee it, False if they rule it out, and Uncertain if they settle neither.4,11
What it measures: Working out what must follow from a set of statements, and holding back when it only might.
How to answer it well
- 1Rewrite each fact as a rule in your head: "Any baker is also a volunteer" means all bakers are volunteers.
- 2Judge each conclusion against the facts only, not against what seems likely.
- 3A conclusion is Uncertain unless the facts force it one way. Could be true is not True.
- 4Don't assume a group has members. A "some" conclusion is True only when a fact says someone exists.
Best guessIn the 2024 banking sitting this section ran 5 minutes, with four conclusions to a screen.
3.Critical reasoningTimed section
A number sequence built by a fixed rule, with one term blanked out as ____, and a box where you type the missing number. Suited's law guide shows this as its Critical Thinking sample: 2, 4, 8, ____, 32, 64, 128, 256. The arithmetic is light, and Suited suggests a notepad.4,9,10,11
What it measures: Finding the rule behind a pattern quickly and applying it without slips.
How to answer it well
- 1Check the gaps between terms first, then the ratios, then whether two sequences alternate.
- 2Test your rule on the terms after the gap as well as before it.
- 3Type only the number. A blank costs nothing, so skip a sequence you cannot crack.
Best guessSuited gives only the 15-minute total for the timed sections. In the one Suited sitting with published screens, a 2024 banking sitting, this section ran 5 minutes.
4.BehavioralUntimed
Statements you rate from Very much me to Not me at all, and pairs of statements where you choose the one more like you and by how much. There are no right answers, and Suited reads the whole set against a model of the attorneys who do well at each firm.4,5,11
What it measures: How you approach work, collaborate and respond to different demands: your traits, your values and how you handle stress.
How to answer it well
- 1Answer as you are in a work or school setting, not with friends.
- 2On a pair, you are only saying which statement is more like you, not that it describes you well.
- 3Don't overthink single items. Your result comes from all your answers together, and statements come back in different words.
Best guessThe 2024 banking sitting had 96 questions, about 20 minutes, and also asked you to share 10 points among three statements on handling stress.
Practice items and how to approach them
Attention to detail (practice)"Intervyo practice item, attention to detail: the original reads "Brennan v. Halverson Mfg. Co., 512 F.3d 1187 (9th Cir. 2008)". Which copy matches it exactly? (a) Brennan v. Halverson Mfg. Co., 512 F.3d 1178 (9th Cir. 2008) (b) Brennan v. Halverson Mfg. Co., 512 F.3d 1187 (9th Cir. 2008) (c) Brennan v. Halvorson Mfg. Co., 512 F.3d 1187 (9th Cir. 2008)"4
- 1This is our own practice item for a skill Suited names; it is not a Suited question.
- 2Check in chunks, not all at once: names, then volume and reporter, then page, then court and year.
- 3Watch for swapped digits and one-letter changes, the two most common traps.
- 4Answer and move on; don't recheck an item you have already settled.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
(b). Option (a) swaps the page digits to 1178, and option (c) changes Halverson to Halvorson.
Logical reasoning (practice)"Intervyo practice item, logical reasoning: every associate on the deal team reviewed the purchase agreement. Some associates on the deal team are first-years. Which must be true? (a) Every first-year reviewed the purchase agreement. (b) Some people who reviewed the purchase agreement are first-years. (c) Only associates reviewed the purchase agreement."4
- 1This is our own practice item for a skill Suited names; it is not a Suited question.
- 2Rewrite each statement as a rule: all deal team associates reviewed it; some deal team associates are first-years.
- 3Test each option against the rules only, not against what seems likely at a real firm.
- 4An option that could be true but need not be is wrong.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
(b). The first-years on the deal team reviewed it, so some reviewers are first-years. (a) is wrong because first-years outside the deal team may not have, and (c) is never stated.
Critical reasoning (practice)"Intervyo practice item, critical reasoning as number series: what number fills the gap? 3, 5, 9, 17, ____, 65"4,10
- 1This is our own practice item in Suited's number-series format; it is not a Suited question.
- 2Check the gaps first: +2, +4, +8. Each gap doubles.
- 3If the gaps don't settle it, check the ratios, then whether two series alternate.
- 4Type only the number. A blank costs nothing, so skip a series you can't crack and come back to it if time allows.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
33. The gaps double each time (+2, +4, +8, +16, +32), so 17 + 16 = 33, and 33 + 32 = 65 checks it.
Behavioral (practice)"Intervyo practice item, behavioral forced choice: which is more like you at work? "I like to finish one matter fully before I start the next." or "I am comfortable moving between several matters in a day.""5,4
- 1This is our own practice item in the forced-choice style Suited uses; it is not a Suited question.
- 2Picture yourself in a work or school setting, as Suited asks, not your weekend habits.
- 3Choose the one that is more often true, even if both are partly true.
- 4Keep going at a steady pace: one answer does not decide anything, and each firm has its own picture of success.
Tip: There is no single right profile. Trying to guess what a law firm wants tends to blur your results rather than improve them.
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How long to hear back after the online assessment
Suited is part of a complete application, and Skadden interviews on a rolling basis. Offer decisions wait for your fall 2026 grades, so finishing Suited early keeps your file ready.2,3
Nov 2, 2026 (summer 2028)
Skadden, US offices
The US 2028 2L postings and the combined 2027 1L and 2028 2L postings went up; the New York posting lists the Suited assessment as a requirement.7,2,1
Feb 10, 2026 (summer 2027)
Skadden, New York
The 2027 New York posting closed.8
Jul 2021 (summer 2022)
Berkeley Law, early interview week
Berkeley's career office listed Skadden among the law firms using Suited, and described these assessments as 20 to 30 minutes.6
Each Skadden office has its own hiring committee, which meets regularly, so timing can differ between the offices you apply to.3
Best guessTake Suited within a few days of applying, so that your screening interview and your fall grades are the only things left. Expect screeners from late November 2026 through February 2027.
What happens after the online assessment
Online application
Resume and undergraduate transcript through Skadden's Flo Recruit portal, then your fall 2026 grades once available.1,2
Suited assessmentYou are here
This page. A brief online assessment for US offices, on how your goals and values align with the firm's. Instructions arrive after you submit.1,2
Screening, then full-round interviews
A virtual screening interview with one or more attorneys, then full-round interviews with partners and associates from the practices that interest you.3
Offer
Decided by each office's hiring committee once your fall 2026 grades are in. If you get an offer, you can ask for follow-up conversations with more attorneys.3
Cognitive part vs behavioral part
The two halves of Suited reward different approaches. Practice helps the first; honesty helps the second.
What it reads
Attention to detail, critical reasoning and logical reasoning.4
How you work, collaborate and handle different demands.4
FAQ
Does Skadden use Suited?
Yes. Skadden asks applicants to its US offices to complete a brief online assessment from Suited, and its 2028 postings list it as a requirement of the application.1,2
How long does the Suited assessment take?
About 30 minutes once you have registered and verified your account. Berkeley Law's career office described law firm assessments like it as 20 to 30 minutes.4,6
Can you prepare for Suited?
Suited says you cannot study for the cognitive part, but it offers a practice assessment in your student account, and you can set up well: rested, on a laptop, with a notepad, and reading each sample before the clock starts. Practicing the formats makes the timed sections feel familiar. For the behavioral part, answer honestly from how you are at work or school; there is no single right profile.12,9,4,5
Can I retake the Suited assessment?
Every 9 months, which means once per recruiting cycle, so take it when you have enough uninterrupted time to do it properly.4
Who sees my Suited results?
Only the firms you authorize. A firm cannot see where else you applied or shared your results, and firms' access to your law school results ends when you graduate.4
Does Suited decide whether I get a Skadden interview?
No. Suited does not make hiring decisions. Skadden reads your results alongside your resume, transcript and interviews, and each office's hiring committee decides.4,3
When should I take the Suited assessment?
Soon after you apply: Skadden sends the instructions after you submit, and offers wait for fall grades, so a finished assessment keeps your file ready. Berkeley's career office notes some students prefer to take assessments before a busy interview stretch.2,3,6
Online assessment at other firms
Sources
Firm pages first, then dated candidate reports. Last checked Nov 4, 2026.
- 1Skadden: Summer Associate Application Information
- 2Skadden (Flo Recruit): 2028 Summer Associate Program - New York
- 3Skadden: United States: Law Students and Graduates
- 4Suited: For law students
- 5Suited: What is the Suited psychometric assessment?
- 6Berkeley Law Career Development Office: CDO: EIW Law Firm Assessments (2021) · prep site
- 7Skadden (Flo Recruit): Job Openings at Skadden (Nov 4, 2026)
- 8Skadden (Flo Recruit): 2027 Summer Associate Program - New York
- 9Suited: How to prepare for and respond to the Cognitive Skills Assessment (law)
- 10Suited: What's measured (Cognitive Skills Assessment, law)
- 11assessmentpass: Huolihan Lokey Online Assessment Walkthrough (May 2024) · prep site
- 12Suited: Resource Guide for Law Students
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