TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[yk1906]

Has anyone received Slaughter's PFO?

 

[TortillaTC]

If I have to write a max one-page cover letter for a law firm’s open day, and there is no indication on the content, is it okay to just write about (1) my motivations to attend the open day and (2) why me? I think if I wrote about “why commercial law?” too, it’d be unnecessarily long.

@Abbie Whitlock thank you in advance!

 

[flower1]

Has anyone received Clifford Chance WG test - thought it was supposed to be sent early November?

 

[WeGotThis!]

Has anyone received Clifford Chance WG test - thought it was supposed to be sent early November?

Does their application have questions?

 

[Flu1dity]

Has anyone received Clifford Chance WG test - thought it was supposed to be sent early November?

It's not even 3pm on the first working weekday of November...

 

[Apple]

Weil VI

 

[yk1906]

Weil VI

Congrats!! For VS? Do they have DTC open?

 

[Apple]

Congrats!! For VS? Do they have DTC open?

VS, wrong thread, sorry.

 

[lawyergal101]

Does anyone know roughly how long it takes Travers to get back with a decision post first-stage interview?

 

[p2bv]

Does anyone know roughly how long it takes Travers to get back with a decision post first-stage interview?

How was your experience !

 

[lawyergal101]

How was your experience !

My interviewer was really lovely and it was very conversational. But I defo stumbled in places and waffled on some answers so not super confident

 

[yk1906]

Does anyone know roughly how long it takes Travers to get back with a decision post first-stage interview?

Hi! Could you please share how long it took them to contact you after the initial app submission? Thanks and good luck!

 

[lawyergal101]

Hi! Could you please share how long it took them to contact you after the initial app submission? Thanks and good luck!

Hey! I submitted my app on 21st Oct and got a call on the 30th.

 

[yk1906]

Has anyone who completed the first stage of the Freshfields assessment around the 28th/29th of October received an invitation to the second stage?

 

[p2bv]

anyone heard back from CMS post WG?

 

[Deleted member 41929]

My interviewer was really lovely and it was very conversational. But I defo stumbled in places and waffled on some answers so not super confident

Agreed. It was such a good interview experience. Relaxed, fair, and conversational.

 

[Hopefully2025]

Is there anyone who applied to Slaughters in or before the first week of October and hasn't heard back at all?

 

[sans]

Has anyone completed the Irwin Mitchell online assessment video interview? If so, what type of questions did they ask?

 

[WeGotThis!]

Has anyone heard from Gowling WLG?

 

[applicant3000]

Have there been anymore Slaughters DTC interview invitations? Especially thinking about those who applied in October!