TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

[Chris Brown]

I don't know who needs to hear this but I f***ing HATE VI's!

Did one this afternoon, it wasn't even hard but I still c**ked it up. Literally my 3 dream questions, had great answers for each, end up spiralling in the last 10 secs. I pass the phone interviews (you know, with real people) every time but yet to pass a VI.

Le sigh. 😭

Whoever decided that VI’s were a good thing to add to the graduate recruit process needs to seriously go outside and touch some f****ng grass imo. Worst idea to have ever been thought of smh. 🤦🏽‍♂️😂​

 

[billyonthespeeddial]

I don't know who needs to hear this but I f***ing HATE VI's!

Did one this afternoon, it wasn't even hard but I still c**ked it up. Literally my 3 dream questions, had great answers for each, end up spiralling in the last 10 secs. I pass the phone interviews (you know, with real people) every time but yet to pass a VI.

Le sigh. 😭

Same. How can I pass an AC and literally do embarrassingly bad in VI with one of my favourite firms in the same cycle? It really takes a different skillset

 

[thecuriouslawyer]

I don't know who needs to hear this but I f***ing HATE VI's!

Did one this afternoon, it wasn't even hard but I still c**ked it up. Literally my 3 dream questions, had great answers for each, end up spiralling in the last 10 secs. I pass the phone interviews (you know, with real people) every time but yet to pass a VI.

Le sigh. 😭

I DO! I feeeeel you!! I'm practicing for the Mishcon VI right now and I literally can't wait for it to be over but also i'm so nervous that I'll mess it all up bc it holds so much weight.

 

[futuretrainee101ac]

Grad rec said last week that they still had a few places left on the spring vac scheme, so I wouldn’t lose hope just yet!

Thank you so much! I was starting to haha

 

[futuretrainee101ac]

In the same position. This is very likely to be a PFO I’m afraid.

They’ve already completed their first stage interviews, ACs and made offers for the Spring Vac Scheme as far as I’m aware.

That’s what I thought too

 

[👩🎓]

Hi all, does anyone have any advice regarding Hill Dickinson's VI and test? Any tips would be highly appreciated, thank you.

 

[SeniorJunior]

Has anyone heard from Addleshaw Goddard at all? I am still waiting since submitting the app/test in early January.

I had my AC today for the SVS

 

[FCL25]

Hill Dickinson PFO 😭 still stings even though they’re not my main target. Still waiting to hear back from AG which I assume at this point is most likely PFO. Leaving WBD as my last hope!

 

[Chill_solicitor]

Any Ropes and Gray AC invites?

 

[floral.tcla]

Hey, as someone who studied law I found that the Forage internships are really useful to get yourself familiar with legal documents such as term sheets, SPAs, employment contracts etc. The Slaughter and May programme literally provides you with an exemplar term sheet and goes through each section with an explanation. If you do enough of them, you’ll see that the exercises are very similar to what you get in ACs and you’ll be familiar with the documents involved in a transaction or shareholder agreement so it won’t be so foreign to you. Even though I studied law, of course we aren’t exposed to practical documents during our degrees, so Forage has really been helping me in that sense. Hope this helps and be kind to yourself, you got to a Linklaters AC which is defo something to be proud of

hi! thank you so much for this ))

 

[jojo23]

Add Stephenson Harwood and their 1800 words (3 600 word questions) to that

I tried to erase this one from memory 🤣🤣

 

[Tiffanychan4]

Kennedys final Partner interview!!! anyone has this too or knows anything about it too please reach out as I'm not sure what to expect.

 

[Katy12345]

Has anyone heard from Addleshaw Goddard at all? I am still waiting since submitting the app/test in early January.

They have done VI’s, AC’s and given out offers but people are still getting invites to all stages. I believe they only send out rejections once all places are filled up so they can have everyone in reserve until then

 

[LawJourney101]

Any Hogan Lovells news as of late?

 

[Chris Brown]

Any Hogan Lovells news as of late?

I saw someone on the forum mention they had received an AC invite recently and that Hogan Lovells confirmed to them that they were running AC’s until around mid March time. 🙂​

 

[aa1]

Kennedys final Partner interview!!! anyone has this too or knows anything about it too please reach out as I'm not sure what to expect.

Congrats! Can I kindly ask what location / sqe or TC this was for - thank you!

 

[Miss Chocolate]

If you have enough time before your TC starting then part time might be an option where firms do not have bespoke SQE prep courses.

I would expect those firms who use BARBRI would be flexible particularly with location as it’s effectively an online course.

I’d also say the higher the maintenance grant, the more likely there won’t be flexibility with location as that grant is calculated on the basis of you living in the location of their preferred supplier.

Firms may consider personal circumstances on a case by case basis - but I think it would need to be something more substantial than just wanting to be out of the U.K. (and that could raise a bit of a red flag to them too).

Ooooh thank you for this. I think more than a part-time arrangement, what I would ideally like is something remote. Very useful to know BARBRI is a remote online course. I suppose if I get enrolled onto a course, I could always check with the firm closer to time

 

[c3alg]

The holding email was for still handing out VIs just in case there's any confusion there

oh okay thanks

 

[BillSikes]

Hill Dickinson test invite for London

 

[Tiffanychan4]

Congrats! Can I kindly ask what location / sqe or TC this was for - thank you!

thank you ! i applied to their Healthcare TC