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TheSaulGoodman

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  • Dec 3, 2025
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    Keeping track of the applications I've made so I can stop staring at my excel sheet:

    Rejections

    Travers Smith DTC post app
    Freshfields DTC post stage 1
    A&O post SJT/VI
    Weil post SJT/VI
    Clifford Chance post passing WG
    WFW DTC - applied in December - PFO post app 13th Jan
    Millbank Lev/fin VS Spring - completed stage 1 online assessment Dec 30th - PFO
    Burges Salmon VS Edinburgh - completed auto assessment Jan 5th - PFO
    Cooley VS Spring - applied December - PFO
    Goodwin Procter DTC - completed VI Jan 7th - PFO
    White & Case VS Spring - completed auto assessment Dec 30th - PFO
    Dechert VS Spring - applied Dec 31 - PFO post app
    Clyde & Co VS Spring - completed auto assessment Jan 10th - VI - PFO 9th Feb
    Osborne Clark - DTC - PFO post online test
    Marriot Harrison Summer VS - completed auto online assessment Feb - PFO'd late Feb
    Orrick - VS Summer - PFO'd late Feb
    Akin VS Spring - applied Dec 31 - PFO'd late Feb
    Ropes & Gray - VS Summer - PFO'd late Feb

    Progress updates

    Linklaters DTC - Completed auto assessment in November
    Addleshaw Goddard VS Summer - completed auto assessment Dec 29th
    Gibson Dunn VS Spring - completed online assessment
    Hogan Lovells DTC- applied in October - completed auto online assessment Feb - Invite to Job sim Feb 16th - Felt Job sim/VI went well
    Simmons & Simmons VS Bristol - Auto SJT invite - completed SJT/VI late Feb, VI went well, SJT not the best scores

    No update since application

    HFW DTC - applied in October
    Mayer Brown DTC - applied in December
    Stephenson Harwood DTC - applied in December
    Hugh James VS Summer
    K&L Gates work placement - holding email
    Russel Cooke - VS Summer
    Michelmores Bristol VS Summer
    Goldman Sachs Asset Management off-cycle internship
     
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