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Recent content by Interested_In_Law

  1. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    If you haven't done a Masters before, many firms will allow you to do the GDL/SQE with an additional dissertation so that it counts a Masters and you can then apply to SFE to access a Masters Loan of around £12,500. You would only be able to claim that once though.
  2. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Thanks, I applied the day before the deadline and did the test on the deadline day, but I know that they do not recruit on a rolling basis. The AC's they listed as available were between 8th-11th December. I saw that there were lots of slots still left.
  3. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Did anyone else not receive a confirmation email after submitting the Macfarlanes simulate test?
  4. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I think either PFO or in the very best case they are operating a waitlist in case someone drops out, but I imagine that the likelihood of getting to AC is very slim tbh.
  5. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    They said they’d get back by the end of February so I hope they send something today.
  6. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Still not heard from Ropes, Travers or Latham 😭😭
  7. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Looking back, last year they came out on 26th Feb I think.
  8. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Interestingly, the video interview platform HireVue, which a number of law firms use, has come under fire for using facial recognition data in AI technology to assess candidates in a way which could potentially be discriminatory. I think it is quite worrying, because AI technology does have a...
  9. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Were you on the waitlist? I ended up registering to watch virtually.
  10. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Anyone still waiting on Latham Spring (post-app)?
  11. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Although that does include GDL students (confirmed in email).
  12. Interested_In_Law

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I might be wrong but I think that, potentially unlike the main TC, in the Middle East vac scheme there is no minimum benchmark for the Watson Glaser. In the Watson Glaser instructions for the vac scheme they specifically mention 'we do not determine the outcome of a candidates application on...

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