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Recent content by MilkMaid

  1. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Does anyone have any guidance on how to respond to a firm asking which firm you have accepted a training contract with? I received a vacation scheme offer from Firm A but I also received a training contract offer from Firm B around the same time. I decided to accept the training contract offer...
  2. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Anyone have any advice on how to chase a firm that keeps moving the goalposts on when they're going to get back to you? At first the firm told me it would be the 27th of Feb. They didn't come back to me by then so I chased it up and they said it would be the 3rd of March which has come and gone...
  3. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Has anyone heard from Shepherd and Wedderburn post interview?
  4. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I was offered a VS with TLT yesterday (this was the Scotland office though, AC was end of January). They told me it would be 3 weeks until I got feedback and it was spot on 3 weeks when they got back to me :)
  5. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    @Jessica Booker sorry to tag you again on this but looking for some advice before I have to respond to the offer I have! Do you happen to know the answer to the above?
  6. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    @Jessica Booker do the same rules apply for accepting a VS offer then reneging on it at a later date in the Scottish system? I've got an offer I'd like to accept but also waiting to hear back from some other firms before making a final decision, so just wanted to ask before I sign anything!
  7. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Sort of saw it coming but still sad! Submitted the VI on 28/11
  8. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    As part of an AC, I've been asked to put together a 10 minute presentation on a current social, political or economic issue currently impacting the UK economy and how that issue impacts commercial law firms (picking out specific sectors affected, what opportunities/challenges there are for law...
  9. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I had an email from Burges Salmon this morning saying they've had received an unprecedented number of applications and that they are hoping to get back to candidates by the 14th of February (that's for the Edinburgh office, not sure about Bristol)
  10. MilkMaid

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Anyone have any advice for a TLT AC?

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