Sidley Austin LLP Mock Interview

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What do you feel is the most important skill that you possess that makes you effective in the litigation/arbitration process?

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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

This is a twofold question where your interviewer is allowing you to talk about what you feel your best skills is as a litigator and/or arbitrator as well as letting you talk about what you feel is the most important quality of someone who is successful at trial or arbitration. Speak to your top strength and prove that it is vital to your success by using a specific example of a time that you've put it to use on the job.

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"Really my number one reason for pursuing a career in law has turned out to be what has made me the most successful I could be in my career and that is my verbal communication skills. In the courtroom setting, my persuasive skills come from a concise and logical place and this sits well with judges and juries alike. My communications skills extend to an innate ability to listen attentively and be witty enough to ask great follow up questions during cross examination."

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27Sidley Austin LLP Interview Questions & Answers

1.What do you feel is the most important skill that you possess that makes you effective in the litigation/arbitration process?

2.What do you feel are the key qualities that a great attorney should have?

3.Talk about a time that you had to think on your feet on the job. What was the situation and what was your thought process for acting quickly?

4.Here at Sidley Austin LLP, we often have to work with very difficult clients. What would be your steps toward effectively working with a difficult client?

5.Who is your hero/heroine?

6.Have you been involved in a corporate tax audit before? What did you learn from that experience?

7.What are your interests and hobbies outside of work?

8.Where do you feel you could use some improvement in the litigation/arbitration process at this point in your career?

9.Here at Sidley Austin LLP, carefully analyzing the cases of our clients is of utmost importance. What analytical skills would you bring to the team here?

10.Strong time management is important at Sidley Austin LLP. How do you manage your time, even on the busiest days?

11.What would make you a great trial advocate if you were to join the team here at Sidley Austin LLP?

12.Working with clients here at Sidley Austin LLP entails the need for strong finance and accounting principles. Why is this important and what will you bring to the team here in this realm if hired?

13.What experience do you have in working with large scale construction companies on state and federal regulations? Would this be an area that would interest you?

14.If hired here at Sidley Austin LLP, how would you best build trusting relationships with our clients?

15.To ensure that our clients here at Sidley Austin LLP are served in the best way possible, our staff must ensure that they are up to speed on all state and federal laws. How do you stay in touch with changes to local, state and federal tax laws?

16.What was your motivation for pursuing a career in the field of law/legal services?

17.Do you have any particular areas of wage and hour laws that particularly interest you?

18.At Sidley Austin LLP, employee satisfaction is very important. To ensure that you would be happy here, what brings you satisfaction in your day to day work?

19.Employment law often involves deep human emotion when bonds are supposedly broken between employee and employer. How do you separate your personal feelings and emotions when involved with a case?

20.To better help serve our diverse client base here at Sidley Austin LLP, do you have an area of sub-specialization that you would prefer to focus on if hired?

21.Talk about a time your ethics were challenged on the job. How do you react to those situations in the legal profession?

22.What in particular about our firm here at Sidley Austin LLP interests you both personally and professionally?

23.Talk about a creative way that you helped ease the tax burden for a business during your career. How did you help put this process into place?

24.Talk about the most difficult work situation you have found yourself in and explain how you used sound judgement to find a great outcome?

25.Some of our business here at Sidley Austin LLP is representing companies in collective bargaining agreements. What experience in the collective bargaining process would you bring to the team here?

26.Talk about a recent time on the job you were working under pressure or stress. How did you cope with that situation and ensure everything was handled smoothly?