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Join Isabel Elsey, Legal Recruitment Manager at BCLP, for a live Q&A session. Get details on secondments, innovation, growth areas, and everything else you’ve wanted to ask about life at BCLP!
Can confirm this is how it works. I work in BD in an international elite with a particular focus on client dev and no client as far as I am aware gives two hoots about degree. Most lawyers we put forward in pitches graduated years ago. At this point it matters more about DEI quota, hourly rates...
What did everyone get in the automatic feedback report for RS? Particularly the pillars? I did quite high in digital and low in grit. Mid high in the other two
Just re read my freshfields personal statement that I have submitted and realised I mention they have six seats but upon reflection it seems they actually have eight. I took this information from multiple sources including chambers student but maybe that was an old post. Annoyed with myself as I...
@Jessica Booker I got through to the next stage (VI/SJT, not automatic) of a firm. However I realised when I looked back at my initial application, that in the work experience section I wrote about completing a virtual vac scheme and how it has made me consider doing a seat in a particular...
One of the CMS application questions is "Describe your proudest achievement and what challenges you have had to overcome". Is that two separate questions on an achievement, and some challenges, or is it asking to describe an achievement and challenges you had to overcome along the way to getting it?
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