One of Sidley's questions is 'In your view which personal qualities make a successful lawyer?'
I've written up my own list, but revisiting their website just now they have a quite neat little 'what we look for' list of personal attributes.
While I'm pleased to find that there's significant conceptual overlap between their list and mine, I'm now wondering if I should shift gears/rewrite to focus more on what they obviously think are key qualities.
Are firms generally looking for their own material to be reflected back at them on these sorts of questions, or do they prefer something a little different? And if using their listed qualities, is it better to use the specific language they use or does it not matter? (ex. they list 'perserverance,' I had already written on 'resilience')