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Ask Paul, Weiss Anything!
Hi! Thank you so much to all of you for spending time to answer our questions! This question is probably more for Paul - is the firm open to receiving applications for a newly-qualified (NQ) position? I am currently an overseas trainee solicitor in another common law jurisdiction with...- sandralai
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23
Has anyone heard back from Freshfields with a TC rejection after AC? Or actually, are they only communicating successful TC offers so far?- sandralai
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23
I understood from last year that CC prefers penultimate year law students or final year non-law students. Asked grad rec before but they just pointed me to the standard CC website. Can anyone confirm if this is still the case this year or have they changed their policy? Thanks!- sandralai
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Clifford Chance - Details of Previous Rejections of TC
Hi all, thanks so much to everyone for some help on discussing rejections previously in another post (https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/forum/threads/how-to-explain-rejections-in-interviews.4387/#post-88714) - it surely made me a lot more comfortable talking about them! For Clifford...- sandralai
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How to Explain Rejections in Interviews?
Thank you so much! Would add that I have been thinking if a track record of commercial firm vacation scheme, while reflecting my continued interest in commercial law, would at the same time show I am consistently considered "a bad candidate" by other firms... I totally agree with your point...- sandralai
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How to Explain Rejections in Interviews?
Thanks so much for your kind advice!- sandralai
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How to Explain Rejections in Interviews?
Hi all, would appreciate some insights in the matter. I have previously completed some vacation schemes at international law firms, but did not convert them into any training contract. I am quite sure in the coming HR and/or graduate recruitment panel interviews, the interviewers will be quite...- sandralai
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International Students & Vacation Schemes
Hi. Thank you very much for everyone's insights. Adding onto the topic, I am an international student on Tier 4 Visa. Does the term break count as "outside" term time (such that London winter vacation schemes are actually out of the question for international students)? I understand that the...- sandralai
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- Forum: Applications Discussion