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Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

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Post AC Linklaters rejection. Sweat equity to add to the belt of experience :)
Me too, I didn’t share earlier because sometimes it can feel like you want to deal with things privately as I did at the time. I’m hoping I did enough for A&O :)

I’m feeling ok and positive though and didn’t really feel like that was my firm in the same way I feel for A&O and FF so keeping the faith in this process :)
 
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