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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris Brown" data-source="post: 202977" data-attributes="member: 35674">I’m not an expert on applications at all as this is only my first cycle. What has crossed my mind however, is that these points seem more suited to address why someone would want a career at Paul, Weiss (training, mentoring, coaching, lean team structure, small trainee intake and greater responsibility, etc.) and doesn’t seem to address the specific question which asks ‘as a premier law firm, what enables Paul, Weiss to maintain its competitive advantage’. There is no mention of Paul, Weiss being a premier law firm, or how it maintains its competitive advantage against other premier law firms (I don’t know if this is needed necessarily). For example, I have seen Milbank (a New York HQ firm like Paul, Weiss) refer to themselves as a premier law firm on LinkedIn and on their website/legal directories. Perhaps reference to Paul, Weiss’ other competitors would have been good here as well (e.g., Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Skadden, etc.). Also, I think since Paul, Weiss is so new in London (it’s pretty much still in growth mode as they are building up a dispute resolution practice), it may have been good to highlight what gives Paul, Weiss a competitive advantage on an international scale or in the US. If it needed to be more UK focused, perhaps discussion of the London office being PE focused (most of Paul, Weiss’ clients in London are PE firms) would have been good. To expand on this, you could have added the points from the first paragraph: By hiring top-tier, high-profile PE partners and being a full service firm across the breath of transactional practices, Paul, Weiss can offer the best service to its PE clients. This results in Paul, Weiss securing large-scale mandates like the KPS Capital deal (€3.5bn). This will allow Paul, Weiss to maintain its competitive advantage against other PE focused firms in the UK. Paul, Weiss’ strategic move to Soho means the firm is now closer to its PE clients. In the long term, this could allow Paul, Weiss to continue to maintain its competitive advantage against its closest competitors in London specifically. I don’t know whether these points are right or wrong at all. They simply crossed my mind, so I might actually be fully waffling here. 😂😂</blockquote>

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