TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Donna Paulsen]

Unrelated but if you guys are looking for a hobby to take your mind off applications and lower your screen time, get a bedazzling kit and bedazzle everything you own. It’s so easy and satisfying. I’ve done 3 lip balms so far xx

 

[deejaykay]

Mishcon...

 

[ABC234]

same here, completely get you it’s my fourth cycle praying this is our last!!

Same here! non-RG uni, graduated 2024, funded and passed the SQE on my own, and only just got my first VS in a US firm - It's possible!!

Hoping to convert and do the best I can, and you can do the same! justagirl23

 

[hanz123]

Same here! non-RG uni, graduated 2024, funded and passed the SQE on my own, and only just got my first VS in a US firm - It's possible!!

Hoping to convert and do the best I can, and you can do the same! justagirl23

wow hats off to you as a non-RG grad too love this for you!!

 

[TheSlapDotCom]

surely mishcon would have to get back to us tmrw as im pretty sure they said they‘re aiming to communicate outcomes during feb…

 

[deejaykay]

surely mishcon would have to get back to us tmrw as im pretty sure they said they‘re aiming to communicate outcomes during feb…

They also said mid feb, but that has come and gone. But what do I know, I have no grit.

 

[Lissa06]

guys when slaughter and may said in the email they will get back towards the end of February... surely that can't mean march right? they have like one business day left, I'm going crazy

 

[flower1]

Hi, does anyone have a list of the firms that use Amberjack assessment?

Thank you

 

[deejaykay]

guys when slaughter and may said in the email they will get back towards the end of February... surely that can't mean march right? they have like one business day left, I'm going crazy

If I've learned anything applying to law firms, it's that rules apply differently depending on which side of the hiring divide you're sitting on. An application deadline is AN APPLICATION DEADLINE, "we will get back to you by end of feb" could mean february 2027, next Wednesday, or never.

 

[jagath]

guys when slaughter and may said in the email they will get back towards the end of February... surely that can't mean march right? they have like one business day left, I'm going crazy

they said beginning of march in an email, which we should take to mean any point from mid feb to never. also it’s been almost 50 days post interview for me!

 

[Apple]

Same here! non-RG uni, graduated 2024, funded and passed the SQE on my own, and only just got my first VS in a US firm - It's possible!!

Hoping to convert and do the best I can, and you can do the same! justagirl23

Well done!

 

[nonliquetagain]

Hi, does anyone have a list of the firms that use Amberjack assessment?

Thank you

from what i recall so far:

- stephenson harwood
- weil
- milbank
- mayer brown
- mishcon de reya

 

[Laurel Lance - Black Canary]

from what i recall so far:

- stephenson harwood
- weil
- milbank
- mayer brown
- mishcon de reya

Milbank is shl not amberjack

-Simmons
-AOS
-Browne Jacobson
-Baker McKenzie
-Reed Smith

 

[shays]

So many rejections for SH like I got to AC a year and a half ago, to the second round last year and this year I got PFO? when they haven’t even changed the application questions basically like excuse me? So pissed off and disappointed

 

[Lollipopx]

Has anyone heard from:

• Hill Dickinson
• Foot Anstey
• PMC
• DWF
• Cripps past video interview/presentation

 

[TheSlapDotCom]

They also said mid feb, but that has come and gone. But what do I know, I have no grit.

LMAOi feel like if not tmrw then it HAS to be next week?? cz ik they were like 1-2 weeks behind w the spring cycle so maybe that delay will carry over into the summer ones

 

[SueD]

Has anyone heard from:

• Hill Dickinson
• Foot Anstey
• PMC
• DWF
• Cripps past video interview/presentation

Nothing from PMC for VS…

 

[ABC2001]

Mishcon...

I still haven't heard back for the spring VC...

 

[trainee4u]

Has anyone heard from:

• Hill Dickinson
• Foot Anstey
• PMC
• DWF
• Cripps past video interview/presentation

Cripps gave out ACs last Friday, with a deadline to accept of tomorrow.

Therefore those who haven't heard will have a tiny chance to get an AC next week, and a much bigger chance to get a PFO.

 

[silonthesofa]

I still haven't heard back for the spring VC...

Apparently if you start their ridiculous AI assessment, but just close it half way through because you got annoyed, you just don’t get PFO’d.