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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Do Mishcon call with both negative and positive news after an AC?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Does anyone know if you have applied to Winston, taken the WG, but not been invited to the first set of interviews, is it likely to be a PFO. Or, do they conduct multiple rounds of interviews?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Hear, hear!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    This absolutely reeks of chatGPT ;)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    5 days :)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Anyone on here have experience with the Mayer Brown AC?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Anyone have experience with Mayer Brown ACs - would like to know more about the fact find exercise, is it just like a normal case study exercise?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Has anyone heard back from Winston post WG? I was invited last week and completed Monday for ref.
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    No, it isn't as far as I'm aware
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Yes, but the deadline for this has now passed. I'll email and ask if I can switch to that. I'm hoping I won't have to do all the stages again. Seems like the only option really, as I don't want to shoot myself in the foot with my current employer. Thanks, Jessica!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It is in one of the aforementioned sectors, we often work with other law firms as well, which makes a conflict check even more likely. I'm really not sure what the best course of action is, I'm going to email grad rec and see what they say.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    My thoughts exactly, I'll be like a bad smell in the office.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I worry, as I'm progressing well in this role and explicitly said in my interview, when asked about the SQE course and PgDL I had taken, that I was no longer interested in a career in law. Telling them 1.5 years down the line that I want time off for what is essentially a job try-out, won't go...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    If my employment contract for my current company has a clause in that reads: 'You are prohibited from engaging, either independently or as an employee, agent, or consultant for any other individual, partnership, or corporation, or as a Director of any entity, in any trade, business...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    If during a work placement the lawyers were QCs as it was a few years ago now, but one has now retired (when he was a QC) and the other is a KC, do you put blah blah QC and blah blah QC or blah blah QC and blah blah KC, or Blah Blah QC (Retired) and Blah Blah KC?
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