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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaysen" data-source="post: 16267" data-attributes="member: 1">Sorry to hear about the rejection. I think the strength of your answer would depend on what you mean by category. Some of the older categories like 'silver circle firms' can be quite outdated (because a Macfarlanes/Travers is very different to an Ashurst or HSF).This is a pretty common interview question, and it's something you'll have a better understanding of over time. It's very tricky, but I don't think the interviewers' motivations are quite as bad as you think, unless the interviewer was expecting you to have the one 'right answer'. In reality, I expect they were looking to see your thought process.One way to approach this would be to look at a firm's core practice areas. You can use Legal 500 or Chambers and Partners to look at firms that are grouped within similar tiers. If a firm is known for a particular practice area expertise, you'll likely see it mentioned on Chambers Student/RoF (e.g. Kirkland and private equity, Clyde & Co and shipping, Jones Day and mid-market M&A etc.). That's not a perfect approach, but you could help yourself in your answer by explaining that you're focusing on a particular area and the firms competing in that area. You could also consider the international reach (e.g. is it another firm trying to becoming a global one-stop shop?), its international reach (is it a US firm trying to compete in London?), its clients (does it have strong public sector clients?) etc. Not all of this information will be obvious, but the more you research firms, the more you'll have an idea of how to group firms.If an interviewer asks you: 'Where else have you applied?', that strikes me as quite a different question, more about your motivation rather than your commercial understanding. You are right that firms know that you'll be applying to multiple firms, and you don't need to pretend you aren't. You just want to show that you have some kind of strategy, so even if the firms you're applying to are completely different, you might want to explain what led you to take that approach.</blockquote>

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