TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Legallylaw]

Hi, anyone applied to Shoosmiths on deadline and received the test?

I applied at 11:56 and got the confirmation email. But havent received the test! Should i be worried

 

[radssss]

Hi, anyone applied to Shoosmiths on deadline and received the test?

I applied at 11:56 and got the confirmation email. But havent received the test! Should i be worried

I submitted an hour before the deadline too and haven’t gotten it. Don’t worry!

 

[Legallylaw]

I submitted an hour before the deadline too and haven’t gotten it. Don’t worry!

Ahh! Thats some consolation! My friend applied 2/3 days prior and received the test today! So was kinda assuming PFO

 

[Novaa]

Paul Hastings in the Epstein files

Not this being firm #8 which I’ve seen referenced by people… I know the journalists at RollOnFriday are having the time of their life compiling that list of firms mentioned

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

Not this being firm #8 which I’ve seen referenced… I know the journalists at RollOnFriday are having the time of their life compiling that list of firms mentioned

The journalists at RollOnFriday right now:

 

[Dannie]

Any more cleary ac invites?

 

[Dannie]

Last year mine was a client bulletin summarising news articles about private equity for a variety of clients in the sector. Can’t really remember what the articles were about but they were quite recent to the time of me doing the WE.

I didn’t get the VS due to my interview but I was told my WE was exactly what they were looking for. I used subheadings and bullet points, I’m pretty sure I explained the impacts of the articles on the types of clients, and I brought in some of my commercial knowledge (I somehow remember Elon Musk’s Twitter debt being relevant?)

I knew nothing about private equity and struggled so much lol. Somehow did well.

thank you thank you thank you bless you!!!!! taking it tomorrow morning

 

[Deleted member 43292]

thank you thank you thank you bless you!!!!! taking it tomorrow morning

best of luckkk!!

 

[1stCycleApplicant]

yea fr LMAOOO to think she was only an intern too... I don't understand why she thought emailing with her work email was a good idea lol...

I wonder what she's up to now...

 

[LegallyBrunette_]

I applied the week of the deadline and have yet to hear back post completing their test. I've not heard of anybody else who has been brought to the next stage yet either but that's not to say they haven't.

 

[1stCycleApplicant]

She's no longer in the legal industry - working in PR and marketing now I think

Quite sad given how hard she seemed to have been working towards that clerkship at Bakers lol

hahaha brutal. She had no hope with all those grammatical inaccuracies and spelling mistakes as jeff pointed out. On another note, it's honestly nuts how much the industry has changed. A sloppily written cover letter and vibes would get you into some of the top firms itw. Now you have to literally be perfect on paper (grades, work experience, top uni, cover letter) to even get through to the psychometric testing stage, let alone a video interview!

 

[Bread]

hahaha brutal. She had no hope with all those grammatical inaccuracies and spelling mistakes as jeff pointed out. On another note, it's honestly nuts how much the industry has changed. A sloppily written cover letter and vibes would get you into some of the top firms itw. Now you have to literally be perfect on paper (grades, work experience, top uni, cover letter) to even get through to the psychometric testing stage, let alone a video interview!

Would you call a connection to Epst*in “vibes”?

Also it seems like it wasn’t enough, yikes

 

[legal18]

Someone PMed me who applied on the deadline and had an interview!

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

hahaha brutal. She had no hope with all those grammatical inaccuracies and spelling mistakes as jeff pointed out. On another note, it's honestly nuts how much the industry has changed. A sloppily written cover letter and vibes would get you into some of the top firms itw. Now you have to literally be perfect on paper (grades, work experience, top uni, cover letter) to even get through to the psychometric testing stage, let alone a video interview!

Grad rec after receiving an app with solid grades (AAA and a 1st), 5 years of work experience, top tier cover letters, extracurriculars, etc., and they send a PFO before the automatic SJT, WG and VI:​

 

[Jessica Pearson - Managing Partner]

Grad rec after receiving an app with solid grades (AAA and a 1st), 5 years of work experience, top tier cover letters, extracurriculars, etc., and they send a PFO before the automatic SJT, WG and VI:​

 

[i-want-a-tc]

hahaha brutal. She had no hope with all those grammatical inaccuracies and spelling mistakes as jeff pointed out. On another note, it's honestly nuts how much the industry has changed. A sloppily written cover letter and vibes would get you into some of the top firms itw. Now you have to literally be perfect on paper (grades, work experience, top uni, cover letter) to even get through to the psychometric testing stage, let alone a video interview!

You chose the hardest cycle to start applying

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

You chose the hardest cycle to start applying

Let’s all just time travel back to the 1990s/2000s when all it took was a phone call and interview and boom the TC was all yours…

Oh, but then we wouldn’t have the shiny £150k+ NQ salaries that draw us to apply to US/MC firms in the first place… Oh well that’s a minor.

I’d rather that than having to go through 80 stages of WG, SJT, VI, WE, AC, 2nd AC, final AC, post VS AC, and whatever else they use smh. ​

 

[Jessica Pearson - Managing Partner]

Let’s all just time travel back to the 1990s/2000s when all it took was a phone call and interview and boom the TC was all yours…

Oh, but then we wouldn’t have the shiny £150k+ NQ salaries that draw us to apply to US/MC firms in the first place… Oh well that’s a minor.

I’d rather that than having to go through 80 stages of WG, SJT, VI, WE, AC, 2nd AC, final AC, post VS AC, and whatever else they use smh. ​

Then you'd probably have to rely on knowing someone who knows someone...

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

Then you'd probably have to rely on knowing someone who knows someone...