TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Z48]

Hi, thank you so much for this! I understand you cannot share the exact question but I would be grateful if you could tell whether the questions are more competence / motivational based or more like why DAC and firm-based?

1 motivational, the rest are competency

 

[jojo23]

Freshfields waitlisted me(?)

Im not sure what emotion im meant to feel here🤣

I just remembered, freshfields was the vi where my dog wouldnt stop barking during one of the questions and i just kept going 💀

 

[User2640]

People that got rejected from WFW today was that post app, VI or AC?

Post VI

 

[helenaskelton]

I have a clash with akin’s assessment day. Does anyone know if they have multiple?

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

Freshfields waitlisted me(?)

Im not sure what emotion im meant to feel here🤣

Same situation here idk what to feel cos it isn’t an AC invite yet it also isn’t a PFO it’s just not now but maybe later lad thanks for applying… 🤷🏾‍♂️​

 

[aria_d]

Any Skadden news?

 

[tarastar]

Hi everyone, I've been applying to US law firms and I notice some brand themselves as being private capital specialists and some focus on asset manager clients so I was wondering what the difference is and how that impacts trainee tasks

 

[nonlawstudent98]

Any Skadden news?

I'm pretty sure the forum is going to erupt as soon as Skadden news comes out!

 

[Donna Paulsen]

I’m back from changing the narrative and trying this instead of playing Angry Birds with a TikTok live on my phone while watching Love Island! 😍

Listened to the “Tech in 2026: Silicon Valley's power plays and players” episode.

My high score was 53,802 and here are my takeaways from what THEY said…

- The FTC is in a silly goofy mood, like yeahhh those antitrust cases against Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta? Forget about it 😭🤣🤣🤣

- Grok might go to App Store jail, and Ani is weird (Grok’s AI companion model thing?)

- Musk and Zuckerberg are in charge of the Silicon Valley x Washington DC fan club (Both are fighting loser allegations...)

- The Metaverse is in its flop era… the Meta Ray Bans are not. But there’s a generational divide on whether they’re weird or not.

- The Republicans are in their employment era, and the Meta board of directors are loving them.

- Microsoft wants no part in this mess (Apparently? 👀)

- Google tripped at the start of the race and has caught up (Gemini, Notebook LLM) and is currently the 2nd most profitable company in the world behind Nvidia and those damn chips…

- The data centres… 🙂 2050 is around the corner, and that carbon footprint is getting interesting, but I thought COP28 had a goal for…? People may also start launching legal action as more are built in residential areas

- Also we may see more AI-based litigation from consumers due to AIs integration in a lot of businesses now and the reliance on the potentially incorrect/biased information it generates. (Employment & Insurance)



So proud of you Nova and I love this coverage! 😍 but girl they’re going to have to pry love island out of my cold dead hands… #teambelle #lucindaisasnake #stopcryingcurtis #chargeit

 

[flamingocelot]

Referring to a three-word firm in the application as an abbreviation of the first letters of each word should be fine, right? (So long as I use their full name initially)

 

[alphabravocharlie]

I'm pretty sure the forum is going to erupt as soon as Skadden news comes out!

Did they give a date for releasing the news

 

[nonlawstudent98]

Did they give a date for releasing the news

No but last year it seems that outcomes were received on the 6th. So, I'd expect sometime this week!

 

[Bbhu19]

did wnyone actually get HFW vac scheme offers? I saw people get AC last week but no one said acceptanve

 

[sadlawyer01]

is the cleary WG automatic?

 

[TheSlapDotCom]

For the Mishcon AI test, did everyone else also not get a question in Part 6? It just sent me a text saying Mishcon looks for xyz in an ideal candidate. Didn't know what to say and just replied "I understand.", to which it responded with "Thanks for sharing that with me."

Also anyone else not been asked additional questions on anything? I only got to type one message per question and everything went straight to thanks for sharing. A friend said a lot of additional questions were asked.

uhh lowk no i didnt have that. i think for me it was smth along the lines of “Mishcon looks for xyz in candidates, tell me how you’ve demonstrated these traits”. smth of that nature

 

[TheSlapDotCom]

is the hogan Lovells online immersive assessment automatic ?

yes! if ur referring to the first stage test. not the job sim

 

[whywhy88]

is the cleary WG automatic?

Nope

 

[Donna Paulsen]

I am once again asking if anyone has Covington AC insights. Happy to help for other firms

I have one they just haven’t invited me yet lol xx

 

[PermanentParalegal]

Today going to be Skadden day?

Not looking like it

 

[sagekensuke]

Cleary AC! sent the application and did the WG both in mid January if it helps anyone