TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[lawstudent2]

Congrats!! Can I ask what your amberjack pillars were?

excelled for verbal and numerical and pillars were 6969

 

[wil_low]

Does anyone remember if for Sidley Austin app there was a work experience section (in addition to questions)?! Did it so long ago I can't remember and need to prep for TI

Did it ages ago too but I'm fairly certain there was!

 

[cooked5678]

Did it ages ago too but I'm fairly certain there was!

Thank you so much! Yeah same, better safe than sorry lool

 

[Rosie_Kitten]

Hi - could anybody who progressed past the assessment stage with Simmons indicate what pillar scores you got? I'm just curious, I feel like I did my best VI's, but I am thinking a lot about the quite low scores in the SJT... not that I can do anything about it.

 

[soph107048]

Does anyone remember if for Sidley Austin app there was a work experience section (in addition to questions)?! Did it so long ago I can't remember and need to prep for TI

heyy when did u get the TI?

 

[cooked5678]

heyy when did u get the TI?

2nd Feb

 

[kukubird]

omfg Goodwin AC!!!!

 

[Hinkle_dinkle]

Anyone heard back from Watson Farley and Williams post-AC

 

[cooked5678]

Anyone heard back from Watson Farley and Williams post-AC

No and I was on first AC! They said not until end of Feb but lmk if you get contacted!!

 

[soph107048]

just took one for the team and emailed clyde about a timeline for hearing back

 

[user397485]

anyone heard from bakers post ac

 

[lawstudent2]

anyone know when we are supposed to hear back from mishcon post sjt for summer?

 

[Dogecoin GC]

omfg Goodwin AC!!!!

if they're still giving out ACs, why not Willkie?

 

[Eudora]

anyone know if addleshaw goddard will be issuing any further acs? did my vi on 17 jan

 

[Dannie]

is cleary gonna do more acs?

 

[emma_annom]

Does anyone know when we are likely to hear back from Farrer post proofreading test?

 

[Gabri3l]

Would anyone have any insight into the Proskauer AC by any chance ?

 

[Rosie_Kitten]

just took one for the team and emailed clyde about a timeline for hearing back

I appreciate it. I hope they don't take it the wrong way, as they gave a rough timeline in their last email (although I guarantee the timeline they gave is inaccurate based on dates, they perhaps gave the timeline hoping people wouldn't email about it).

 

[needatrainingcontractasap]

Any update on whether Latham has started giving out ACs for SVS?

 

[Myparentsdream]

'Future Trainee Solicitor'
'Future nothing'
(delete as appropriate)

I had both of these typed in my phone.

I was waiting to hear back from a law firm after a bumpy Vac Scheme.

It was sort of obvious it hadn't gone well.

But 'future nothing' if you don't get one of a handful of jobs at a law firm?

Well, yes, that's how it seemed at the time.

Not now of course, but back in January 2021, as had been the case for the preceding three years, I hitched my sense of self-worth to a two letter acronym - TC, or Training Contract, if you prefer.

Now those letters have quite a different meaning:

Take control
Tutoring career
Take care
Tailor-made career

Etc etc.

It's easier to 'make it' in life without a Training Contract than you might thin

Wait is this tintin09 making a come back😍😍😍

(I saw your Linkedin)