TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[EfficientBag123]

I get you but I promise it’s not worth it that anxiety will eat you up. Even if you get the AC (hopefully you do) that anxiety will carry on and may potentially ruin your performance or hinder you from performing your best. Just try to hold it back or manage as best as you can and hope for the best !

Never really thought about it like that. First vac scheme cycle and that😂. Thank you though.

 

[billyonthespeeddial]

Guys do you think that for the Debevoise question below it is necessary to mention a deal that they have worked on?: Please tell us about a recent commercial deal that has captured your interest. If you could represent a side, which would it be and why? (Max 300 words)

Not necessary

 

[Harvey Specter]

 

[EfficientBag123]

Completely unrelated but lowkey gassed to see this thread pop off when everyone starts getting AC invites😂

 

[Novaa]

The jump scare seeing an email from Baker McKenzie, then it just being application timelines!! 😭

Side note: more firms should do this!

 

[Unknowncabbage]

Completely unrelated but lowkey gassed to see this thread pop off when everyone starts getting AC invites😂

I reckon we might see quite a few tomorrow (hopefully anyway)

 

[tc2026]

what type of test does Clyde & Co use please? is it amberjack?

 

[tc2026]

not heard anything from Baker - applied end of November, for summer. Do I assume PFO?

 

[LehmanBrothersRiskManagementIntern]

Anyone received Dechert's WE recently? Seems like an incoming PFO

 

[EfficientBag123]

not heard anything from Baker - applied end of November, for summer. Do I assume PFO?

Nah not for summer. They communicate everything after the deadline. I submitted in October for spring, then 2 months later I got progressed. 9 days after the deadline.

 

[EfficientBag123]

I reckon we might see quite a few tomorrow (hopefully anyway)

So do I. Bricking it 💀

 

[Donna Paulsen]

Eversheds Sutherland please send out AC invites soon

 

[EfficientBag123]

Eversheds Sutherland please send out AC invites soon

This how I’m feeling bout baker mckenzie 😂

 

[Unknowncabbage]

So do I. Bricking it 💀

This is going to be me reacting to good or bad news tomorrow 😂

 

[WillKitchen]

I have a Forage question:

This year I completed 5 job sims (White & Case, Clifford Chance, Kennedys and Slaughter & May x 2). At the time I applied to CC's VS I had not done their Forage programme, and the email strongly suggested that applicants have a far better chance of success if they complete at least one. So after submitting I completed their Community and Pro Bono course. If I had done that first, the changes of making it to the next stage would have been (perhaps slightly) increased.

Now I am looking at Jones Day. They were not a firm I had considered before, but I had a great time at their LawCareersNet LIVE event in London and that changed my mind. Having completed 5 Forage sims already, the prospect of doing another is not particularly inviting. But I think that the firm would probably look more favourably on any candidate who had completed their programme.

What would you do? Enrol for a 6th Forage with Jones Day, or trust in the insight and exposure provided by the 5 already completed and prioritise some other research into the firm?

Thanks!

 

[Unknowncabbage]

I have a Forage question:

This year I completed 5 job sims (White & Case, Clifford Chance, Kennedys and Slaughter & May x 2). At the time I applied to CC's VS I had not done their Forage programme, and the email strongly suggested that applicants have a far better chance of success if they complete at least one. So after submitting I completed their Community and Pro Bono course. If I had done that first, the changes of making it to the next stage would have been (perhaps slightly) increased.

Now I am looking at Jones Day. They were not a firm I had considered before, but I had a great time at their LawCareersNet LIVE event in London and that changed my mind. Having completed 5 Forage sims already, the prospect of doing another is not particularly inviting. But I think that the firm would probably look more favourably on any candidate who had completed their programme.

What would you do? Enrol for a 6th Forage with Jones Day, or trust in the insight and exposure provided by the 5 already completed and prioritise some other research into the firm?

Thanks!

you could potentially enrol in it, and maybe discuss how you are working through it at present.

 

[Saul_specter]

The jump scare seeing an email from Baker McKenzie, then it just being application timelines!! 😭

Side note: more firms should do this!

cld u pls send the application timelines email? thanks

 

[BobThebIlly]

Has anyone heard from Davis Polk?