TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[lawyersum]

Literally. It took me 2.5 hours. And I have no idea how they’re going to assess us, I doubt they’re going to read all of our chat.

Ikr, pretty ridiculous to make candidates sit for two hours and do that only to scrap them with ambjerjack/cappfinity later

 

[aspringlawyer25]

Any insights on Osborne Clarke's deductive reasoning test? Is it a WG?

 

[yk1906]

Has King & Spalding opened their apps?

 

[e_turbo2]

Can anyone provide any BCLP interview insights please? Feel free to DM me or reply in thread here 🙏 // separately, @Andrei Radu How should I prepare for a strength based interview with this firm? Thank you!!

 

[l789]

when do White&case get back to applicants about the careers dinner- London one is on the 19th. Surely that’s cutting it fine.

 

[GT1205H]

I see there is a lot of activity regarding DLA Piper. I'd like to know (be extremely grateful too) if someone who has been invited to a phone interview can share when they received their 'passed WG' email and what their scores were. If it helps anyone (I have not been invited to a phone interview - yet?)

• Applied 6th October
• Watson Glaser Invite 26th October (did it on the 28th)
• Received the 'you have successfully passed our online assessment' email on the 29th Oct
• My 'scores' were: 3 Strengths to leverage and 1 Further exploration

But I have not been invited to a Telephone interview (maybe it will be a PFO)

 

[i-want-a-tc]

I got equivalent to 20 but not heard on next steps yet!

You the guy that gets through everything, you're in AS CAC finals right? Wishing you all the best bro (assuming you're a guy).

 

[Bbhu19]

Does Simmons and Simmons have video interview questions during their amberjack, and are they motivational or scenario based?

 

[Jennifer2003]

Does Simmons and Simmons have video interview questions during their amberjack, and are they motivational or scenario based?

It is at the end, there's 4 with unlimited time to prepare and they are motiviational/commercial based

 

[yasmars]

Does Simmons and Simmons have video interview questions during their amberjack, and are they motivational or scenario based?

If you did the test last year it’s more or less the same. They never really change anything

 

[cookedlawstudent]

Just completed the stage 1 online test for Freshfields, I feel like I did well in every aspect besides from the Critical Reasoning, I feel that was not as good as the others. Can anyone who was invited to stage 2 say how they felt regarding their performance of the stage 1 Critical reasoning test?

 

[pleasepleaseplease]

A&O Shearman AC invite!!!!!!!!

congratulations! please could you share what your feedback report said?

 

[TCtoothfairy]

Latham lgbt open day!! 🎉

 

[LawAspirer]

Does CMS give you the results for the Watson Glaser right after you complete it?

 

[summersun]

Mishcon 's test was horrible! I kept missing some typing mistakes because I could not see my answers well and I even sent a few with typos by mistake because it sent them when I was still correcting my parapgraphs 😭 Basically spent two hours typing just to purely expect a PFO....

 

[londonlawyer]

Hi @Andrei Radu @Abbie Whitlock, I'm quite unsure as to how I should approach the question "Please give details of computer skills rating?". There is no specified word count, but all the other questions have a 250 word limit. I'm not sure whether they are looking for us to go into dept about the various software programmes I've used in my internships/VS and then ultimately make a self-assessment.

 

[llblawstudent]

Anyone know when we might expect to hear back from Weil post VI and Freshfields post stage 2?

 

[Someoneinlaw]

Simmons AC!

Hiii congratulations! please when did you complete the online assessment?

 

[Goodbyetc]

How long does Willkie take after the VI to make a decision

 

[1stCycleApplicant]

How long does Willkie take after the VI to make a decision

Within 15 working days. I received my WE invite after 14 working days