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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

I thought they did as well and on the feedback report I thought at least some of the earlier ones would have heard back mine was nearly two months ago
applied to London, haven't heard yet
They never said March 2026!
Irwin Mitchell is really gonna wait until the very last second of March huh…
In my AC they said hopefully earlier in March, but latest by end of March lmao
 
The new Baker McKenzie form is absolutely god-awful
Weirdly, the cvmail form is still active... do we know which of the two forms should be used? They are not the quite the same. Although the questions are identical, the new form suggests a 300 word limit for the second question (cf 400 word limit in cvmail) and does not require referees (cf 2 referees in cvmail)...
 
The new Baker McKenzie form is absolutely god-awful
No ano it’s atrocious. Whoever decided to approve of this format needs to give their head a good shake and wobble ngl. It’s so bad omg…

The worst part is everytime I tried to log back in it wouldn’t accept my password. I entered my email for a new one and it refused to send a link…

Eventually I figured it out by some holy asspull. It asks for us to enter our academic details twice on the form to make things more frustrating.

Then the work experience section is a nightmare to navigate too. It asks us to upload a CV only to ask us to manually enter the WE all over again anyway.

The only decent part is the section for answering app questions cos it lets you format it and tweak the styling so it looks presentable…

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Weirdly, the cvmail form is still active... do we know which of the two forms should be used? They are not the quite the same. Although the questions are identical, the new form suggests a 300 word limit for the second question (cf 400 word limit in cvmail) and does not require referees (cf 2 referees in cvmail)...
I thought CvMail was bad until I came across this new Bakers portal it’s snatched the crown straight off of CvMail for worst app form lmao. It took me hours to figure it out but glad it’s over…

Now I’m confused cos I submitted my form using the new portal. Were we meant to use their CvMail one? I only did 300 words per Q and I’ve not even included any references either yikes…

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