TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[BM99]

Does anyone know generally how long will it take for Slaughters to come back to our application with either a rejection/interview invite?

 

[applicant3000]

Have there been anymore slaughters ac invites since the first batch went out?

 

[pleasepleaseplease]

Does A&O test have a deadline?

Hi, do you know now if there is a deadline?

 

[rosedunn]

what are people doing about A&O shearman not having enough boxes for modules?

 

[Willgetatc]

what are people doing about A&O shearman not having enough boxes for modules?

I emailed grad rec and they said to send the full grades by email to attach to my application!

 

[GT1205H]

Hi! Does anyone know how long the description of a work experience entry for the Clifford Chance DTC app should be ? Like roughly how many words ?

 

[yk1906]

For those who applied for Mayer Brown DTC, have you received a test/VI yet?

 

[Ronaldo04]

Does anybody know what a good score in the A&O report is. So what would the benchmark be across all pillars

 

[hmevey]

Hey guys, with application answers if the word count is 500 words or 300 words, is hitting 50 so words under e.g. 420 or 230 sufficient or should you bump this up. I feel like ive said everything i want to say but not sure if this means im not saying enough? any help would be appreicated!

 

[loch_sk]

Freshfields Stage 2 Job Simulation!

 

[Irishman11]

If we haven't heard from Travers by now is it likely a PFO?

 

[DavidJC]

If we haven't heard from Travers by now is it likely a PFO?

It's only been a week since the deadline and I think there's only three of them in the team manually going through every application so I wouldn't say so.

 

[Irishman11]

It's only been a week since the deadline and I think there's only three of them in the team manually going through every application so I wouldn't say so.

I mean, they have been reviewing them on a rolling basis and people who applied on deadline day have been invited to interview. But I guess maybe they're just picking exceptional people first or something.

 

[WeGotThis!]

For those who completed the A&O DTC VI, how many questions are there and are they motivational or competency? Thank you!

 

[milawalton]

Has anyone heard back since Stage 2 of the Freshfields Trainee Associate programme

 

[milawalton]

Has anyone heard back from Hogan Lovells Direct TC?

 

[Irishman11]

Out of interest how many words did you guys do for your Travers Smith cover letter?

 

[flower1]

Hello, has anyone done the Clifford Chance VI - I tried to find information on their website about format but there's not much

Thank you

 

[ashwright]

Might just be me being technologically inept, but I can't find a 'back' button on the A&O Shearman application portal to look at previous parts of my application? If I press the 'Back' button at the top, it just takes me to the application portal homepage. I can only see 'Save and continue' and 'Save and finish later'...

Any advice before I start re-entering all these entries for a third time? 😵‍💫

 

[law123456789]

I submitted FF test one on Nov 5th and got stage two on Nov 10th, so 5 days between them. Think they send the tests in batches though so it could be more or less time for others.​

Really confused - what are the stages for FF? I've submitted my written app today.. what can I expect?