TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Madison Pinewall]

Also. They are definitely recruiting for spring/summer so it may be that I could be offered a spring placement instead (should I succeed haha)

 

[EL2003]

I got 32/36 on the pillars for Mayer Brown's amberjack test but medium for Applied Verbal Intellect. Is that likely a PFO because surely that is really important.

Update: It was a PFO! Also sorry to everyone that messaged me privately I forgot my password so just saw them

 

[lawgirIie]

Any DLA Piper Leeds or any other office heard anything back about the vacation scheme?

 

[Bread]

I'm not too sure, I applied in December. Would have been around the 10th I think. They got back to me about 3 weeks later regarding the WG and it's only been about a week since I completed it. I applied to Gibson Dunn at a similar time and have had no response yet. I think GD is more rolling with spaces actually filling. The AC is the end of this month if that helps

Thank you! Very helpful, and best of luck!

 

[applicant457]

WFW AC!! Any tips?

 

[ddalki]

Latham, Cleary, and Jones Day AC invites! I’ve never been to an AC before, so this is mildly terrifying. Hoping everyone is hearing great things!

 

[Madison Pinewall]

Latham, Cleary, and Jones Day AC invites! I’ve never been to an AC before, so this is mildly terrifying. Hoping everyone is hearing great things!

Wow!! What a morning!!

 

[Novaa]

THE AC DANCE WORKED, KEEP IT GOING GUYS

 

[Dannie]

I'm trying to arouse my inbox so it can send me SOMETHINGGG (Good)

 

[user123987]

Is it just me whose inbox has been so dead

 

[Chak]

Latham, Cleary, and Jones Day AC invites! I’ve never been to an AC before, so this is mildly terrifying. Hoping everyone is hearing great things!

This is so impressive! Congratulations!!

 

[Gottagetthroughthis101]

Thank you so much guys for your kind words!!! It is my first ever proper AC as previous ones were just a short proof reading exercise so any tips would be so helpful. It’s exactly in a weeks time and I know some people were offered slots way before me so I need to max out on the prep outside of my 9-5

 

[legalbanana]

For anyone that did the Dechert WE did you get a confirmation email afterwards? I've just completed mine and I'm terrified something didn't submit

 

[llblawstudent]

This is so impressive! Congratulations!!

Hey, how soon after your interview did you hear about JD? And how was the interview?

 

[Eudora]

Latham, Cleary, and Jones Day AC invites! I’ve never been to an AC before, so this is mildly terrifying. Hoping everyone is hearing great things!

Huge congrats!!
Just out of interest, was the Latham AC invite from today?

 

[ddalki]

Wow!! What a morning!!

It feels surreal! … But to be fair, I did refuse to check my inbox the past few days and almost missed one of the invites . It seems like I might see you at Cleary’s AC; best of luck! We’ve got this!

 

[LawAspirer]

For anyone that did the Dechert WE did you get a confirmation email afterwards? I've just completed mine and I'm terrified something didn't submit

Nope

 

[Rosie_Kitten]

Is it just me whose inbox has been so dead

Applied to 30 firms... basically nothing this week. My only hope is lots of then have responded to almost nobody recently.

 

[ilikelaw]

gosh all these posts about AC invites are making me wanna apply to more firms just in case, but i gotta force myself to lock in for exams first

 

[ddalki]

Huge congrats!!
Just out of interest, was the Latham AC invite from today?

Thank you! Nope, it was from a few days ago, I just… refused to check my email because I was scared……