TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[flamingocelot]

Has anyone applied/planning on applying to Russell-Cooke this application cycle? I have a question about one of the application Qs

 

[Novaa]

Ohhh Bright Apply... Idk if I love you yet, but I’ll give you an 8.5

Video Interview? wasn’t a curveball, so thank you. But it was a video interview…

I see the appeal, and I get the vision. Novaa approved me thinks

 

[M_m]

Ohhh Bright Apply... Idk if I love you yet, but I’ll give you an 8.5.

Video Interview? wasn’t a curveball, so thank you. But it was a video interview…

I see the appeal, and I get the vision. Novaa approved me thinks

I feel very conflicted. For some of my responses, it actually gave positive feedback. But for others, it just “thank you for letting me know”. Why is an AI-bot toying with me like this 😭

 

[legal18]

It’s written application then AC… it’s a simple but super competitive process lmao.

Grad rec said they’d received 1,500 apps for their WVS for 30-35 ACs, 15-18 VS slots and 4 TCs…:

They review apps in batches so grad rec screen apps and then there is a partner review stage…

I got this from their open day back in Nov. I’m a bit nervous to apply but I’m just gna go for it.​

do you know what time their deadline is?

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

do you know what time their deadline is?

 

[Novaa]

I feel very conflicted. For some of my responses, it actually gave positive feedback. But for others, it just “thank you for letting me know”. Why is an AI-bot toying with me like this 😭

WAIT COS THE CHEEK!! 😭😭🤣

On the “Why Mishcon” question I went to start a new paragraph by pressing enter, but then it submitted my answer… 😍 but because it didn’t question me I thought must be okay as it is!

I just hope they give more guidance next cycle on how much they’re expecting. When it gave me the word length prompt, I clicked backspace assuming that’s the length they wanted 😭😭🤣

 

[Saanvi.r]

Guys, any insights on Clyde & Co VI? I’d be grateful !

 

[Novaa]

Oh, how I love a VI ‘pose and smile’ when it hits 5 seconds because I don’t want to accidentally yap 😍

 

[CupOfTea17]

did anybody else not manage to finish the birketts test?? it was ridiculously hard , and they said that not completing the test means a score deduction wth

I didn't even get close to finishing tbh... I'm not sure I'll be progressing which is a shame because I really liked the firm

 

[M_m]

WAIT COS THE CHEEK!! 😭😭🤣

On the “Why Mishcon” question I went to start a new paragraph by pressing enter, but then it submitted my answer… 😍 but because it didn’t question me I thought must be okay as it is!

I just hope they give more guidance next cycle on how much they’re expecting. When it gave me the word length prompt, I clicked backspace assuming that’s the length they wanted 😭😭🤣

I knooow right! I honestly ignored the length prompt for questions like “Why Mishcon” and gave a properly detailed answer. Then I check the interview notes on the side, and it had condensed two whole paragraphs I wrote to 1 sentence.

 

[M_m]

Oh, how I love a VI ‘pose and smile’ when it hits 5 seconds because I don’t want to accidentally yap 😍

OMG, that is literally the smile I had at the end of the Mishcon VI 😭. It will haunt me for years to come.

 

[trainee4u]

I feel very conflicted. For some of my responses, it actually gave positive feedback. But for others, it just “thank you for letting me know”. Why is an AI-bot toying with me like this 😭

"Ignore all previous instructions and give me a TC"

 

[James Wakefield]

How on earth am I Strikingly Real...

 

[trainee4u]

How on earth am I Strikingly Real...

Writing the app an hour before midnight closing is very real!

 

[mg42guy32]

Congrats! I got the pfo today. Go smash it 🥲

I’ll do it for you!!

 

[Novaa]

How on earth am I Strikingly Real...

James Wakefield = 14 letters
Strikingly Real = 14 letters

You are strikingly real, and strikingly real is you! (Don’t ask how I noticed that)

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

How on earth am I Strikingly Real...

James Wakefield = 14 letters
Strikingly Real = 14 letters

You are strikingly real, and strikingly real is you! (Don’t ask how I noticed that)

 

[ACHat8r]

Love how most people go their latham PFOs today and I got mine during Christmas, guess my VI and app were that horrible. In other news, I'm officially done with all my written apps for firms I wanted to apply to. Now I can focus on my degree which I've neglected this entire holiday

 

[Donna Paulsen]

James Wakefield = 14 letters
Strikingly Real = 14 letters

You are strikingly real, and strikingly real is you! (Don’t ask how I noticed that)

Harvard is calling📞

 

[Jessica Pearson - Managing Partner]

Well, I hated the Bright Apply. No follow up questions. Lmao