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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26
- Thread starter Ram Sabaratnam
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It’s just work experience right? No opportunity to convert to a tc?
Congratulations !!!After 4 cycles, 10 ACs, 3 VS offers, I have my 1 Lewis Silkin TC offer! Thanks TCLA and best wishes to everyone
what are we supposed to say for 'What is your minimum annual salary requirement?'? I've never seen this on an application before. Also, for 'When are you available to start?' is this asking graduation year, or for when we are free over this summer?
Let me check!
it will be an email regardless of the result!
Hi @Jaysen, just to confirm is this only available to applicants from low-opportunity backgrounds? Saw this on Non-Billable but there’s no mention on the firm’s website
They sent an email when I applied for their vac scheme being like well assess all outcomes for everything after the 6th April
The firm has said that applicants won't be offered an LBA role at the end. However, those who perform well on the vacation scheme and afterwards apply to the LBA role will be placed in a better position (e.g. previous applicants may have been fast tracked).
I think there's a bit of confusion because there is an AI vacation scheme aimed to help those from low income backgrounds and a separate formal vacation scheme.
This opportunity is about the formal vacation scheme.
Discuss something that you have pursued outside of your academic or professional life, why it is important to you and what impact it has had on your personal development. (2000 characters or c300 words).
Identify an industry sector of interest to you and discuss its current challenges or opportunities and how the firm could help a client in this sector navigate these. (2000 characters or c300 words)
Discuss how the role of a commercial lawyer is evolving in today’s business environment. Identify the key skills required and how you have demonstrated these. (2000 characters or c300 words).
Identify an industry sector of interest to you and discuss its current challenges or opportunities and how the firm could help a client in this sector navigate these. (2000 characters or c300 words)
Discuss how the role of a commercial lawyer is evolving in today’s business environment. Identify the key skills required and how you have demonstrated these. (2000 characters or c300 words).
yes i received a video interview email
Hi Jaysen, thank you for the info! If I understand correctly, next applications for the actual LBA role will open some time at the end of 2026 and close early 2027, with a September 2027 start, right? Which means that doing the vacation scheme this summer could count towards our LBA application later this year (even if we wouldn't be directly interviewed)?
Hey!
When I completed vacation schemes last cycle, I stayed in student accommodation for those I had to arrange myself. I found these were significantly cheaper than hotels (if it helps, I paid around £400 for two weeks for one of them) and they were still relatively close enough to central London to make commuting to and from the scheme really convenient.
Also, by the time I did my summer schemes, I technically wasn't a student anymore but was still able to stay in some accommodations. If that is something you are concerned about, it is definitely worth double-checking with each provider, as I'm sure it varies.
As others have mentioned, I'd also reach out to the firm you have the VS with and ask if they have any recommendations - they can usually provide you with a list of accommodation providers that other vacation schemers have stayed with in the past (and one firm even offered to contribute to my accommodation, in addition to providing the list)!
Best of luck!
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