• Get Everything You Need to Secure a Training Contract
    Now half the price. Join TCLA Premium for £30/month and get step-by-step application support, daily commercial awareness practice, and 700+ successful examples of past applications and interview experiences. Plus so much more.
    Join Premium →
  • From AI to Energy Deals: Inside a Full-Service Law Firm with Osborne Clarke
    8 Dec 2025 · 6pm (UK) Zoom · Registration Required
    You want to write a strong Osborne Clarke application — but what really makes the firm different, and how do trainees experience the work day-to-day? In this session, you’ll hear directly from current trainees and Recruitment Advisor Patrick Fermin Ryan, so you can speak with clarity and specificity in your applications and interviews.
    Register →

Recent content by bluebell

  1. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Thank you so much!! I appreciate it so much, I am so happy!!!! :)
  2. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Thank you so much Jessica I really appreciate it! :)
  3. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    I have just been made a TC offer for the GLD! I am so happy, and I just wanted to thank everyone who has helped me during the application process!! :)
  4. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Okay, amazing thank u! Keeping my fingers crossed too then :)
  5. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Yeah, I never heard anything back either! Not sure whether to email or not!
  6. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Is this after the application form? If so I never heard back after submitting my form
  7. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Does anyone have any advice for the GLP/GLS trainee scheme AC? Specifically for the written test? Have it coming up and am very nervous!!
  8. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Does anyone have any advice for final stage partner interview at WFW?
  9. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Does anyone know which dates the WFW AC runs on - when I logged on there were only 2 options to book (neither of which really work for me) - Are those the only two dates or were there more which have now been booked up? Not sure if worth emailing GR..?!
  10. B

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Okay, thank you so much! I'm so sorry about the bad luck :( I haven't had an email so assuming I didn't get invited to the next round
  11. B

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Does anyone know what the word limit is for Howard Kennedy - there is no limit? What should I aim for?

About Us

The Corporate Law Academy (TCLA) was founded in 2018 because we wanted to improve the legal journey. We wanted more transparency and better training. We wanted to form a community of aspiring lawyers who care about becoming the best version of themselves.

Get Our 2026 Vacation Scheme Guide

Nail your vacation scheme applications this year with our latest guide, with sample answers to law firm questions.