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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthew Ashikhin" data-source="post: 9561" data-attributes="member: 1406">When was your Sidley Austin interview? February 2019What was it for? Vacation SchemePlease describe the interview process at Sidley Austin.Consisted of one interview with 2 partners and the HR manager. Lasted 1 hour. The HR manager just sits there and takes notes so all the questioning is done by the partners both of whom were very friendly and charismatic which gave a very good impression of the firm!The first half of the interview was centered around general questions e.g. Why law (Especially when you are not a law student), Why Sidley Austin etc; it was essentially like a normal conversation.The second half was based on an FT article that they pulled from the last week or two. Mine was the speculation that Iceland will buy out stores that Sainsbury and Asda will likely have to sell in order to merge. It was simple and straightforward in the start but got technical and quite tense closer to the end, but not overly so. Overall, I enjoyed the interview process!What advice would you give to future applicants for the Sidley Austin interview?As a non law student, I feel like they went a little easier on me and were quite surprised by how far from Law I really am an why exactly I came to law and not something else. This also made the more technical part of the interview less difficult too. As a previous post said, DO NOT talk about something that interests you in Law unless you can genuinely talk about it. I slipped about real estate and the partners did try to catch me out on that by asking what other areas of law flow into this and what are the complications of real estate buy outs like the one in the article. I was asked how I would deal with clients and earn their trust to which I answered that reaching a mutual understanding is key; explaining what service you offer to a client in a simple yet technical enough way etc.If you get into a pickle, DO admit that you are not sure and ask them to clarify and maybe even explain. I like to think that if they reject you for not knowing the law enough (and that means at all, as even I have some understanding of the law), thats good because then you werent meant for the firm anyway and if you did get the vac scheme, you would not enjoy it as much as you think. Having a good idea as to why you want to work for Sidley Austin and how they are distinguished from the other American firms as well as Magic Circle law firms. I did not talk much about this to be frank. Carry yourself confidently and don't be afraid to make mistakes. Its very good if you pick up on your mistakes and dont take yourself too seriously. I got quite a few laughs out of the partners and recruiting manager and told them some anecdotes from my childhood at random points in the interview. I feel like if you start out serious, thats how you will be treated, if you have a mix of everything, then thats also how it will be.</blockquote>

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