TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Shawshank728394]

my slaughters portal has changed to interview confirmed from application under consideration - has this happened to anyone else and what does it mean?

Are you law or non law?

 

[Madison Pinewall]

Mine has always been on interview confirmed but maybe that’s because they knew straight away after the interview and were at no point considering me lol

I think its more the fact mine changed so they made an update.. whereas if yours never changed they may have just forgotten to do the admin stuff

 

[Shawshank728394]

I think its more the fact mine changed so they made an update.. whereas if yours never changed they may have just forgotten to do the admin stuff

Yh maybe… either way would be nice if they could just tell us
At what point is it acceptable to email and ask

 

[TheSaulGoodman]

Addleshaw Goddard London Summer vac pfo lollllll

 

[Cece176]

Finally got Links PFO lol

 

[henry1050]

anyone heard from Goodwin post-AC?

 

[Unknowncabbage]

Mayer Brown PFO . I guess that wraps up my application season.

5 total applications
3 ACs
1 Summer internship offer

I’ll probably be back because I’m not sure if the internship has the opportunity to convert to an offer? I am also now 100% going on a year abroad which gives me an extra year haha catch you all on the flipside!!

Sorry to hear that, I am sure you will be back even stronger and secure that offer! I was just curious, was the Mayer Brown PFO post AC and if so, when did you do the AC? I am pretty certain I am getting a PFO as I have not heard back for ages.

 

[legallybrunnette]

Hi everyone I just finished my interview for a vacation scheme and I wanted your thoughts on something. At the end, she mentioned that ultimately it was not her decision whether she was going to take me or no and that she is only responsible for completing the feedback form. Grad rec is the decision maker something like that?? I thought the interviewers had greater decision making power. Now I am wondering whether this was her kind way of telling me I got rejected or whether it is something that she/they say to everyone. What are you thoughts? Am I spiralling lol?

Update on me spiralling- I got the vac scheme offer in the end. Thanks for the emotional support chat!!!!

 

[marshall]

congrats! when was your ac

thank you! it was yesterday

 

[Arv_329]

has anyone heard from Slaughter non law yet.

 

[elizabethkate]

Yes I got it! It was kind of weird that they sent that but I guess they are trying to adhere to their diversity stats.

On another point, I dont find their website as helpful as other firms.. I feel like it’s a bit harder to really justify the “why Blake Morgan” question.

i’ve seen some period get pfos so is that a good thing ? i don’t get it and yeha defo harder than others

 

[trainee4u]

I don't usually comment on things like this, but this sounds intriguing. What was the outcome?

So just had my feedback call (PFO) and they said that I was steering the group away on several occasions and I should instead summarise the groupthink rather than doing that to ensure it's a group decision.

I felt this was a bit unfair, as the task was for a specific client base and this girl was waffling on very generally, but I guess thems the breaks if you're in a group that's not particularly effective.

I think I was probably PFOed more on the interview, but they said it was "holistic", not a score per component, so you couldn't really tell.

 

[Saul_specter]

Anyone hear from travers post interview?

 

[jagath]

has anyone heard from Slaughter non law yet.

my portal has changed from application under consideration to interview confirmed

 

[Isabel709]

Has anyone had any positive news (recently) from Simmons & Simmons Bristol post SJT/VI?

haven't had any news

 

[tc2026]

hey, does zip law also talk about tasks on a vac scheme and how to convert specific vacs into TC's?

 

[silonthesofa]

So just had my feedback call (PFO) and they said that I was steering the group away on several occasions and I should instead summarise the groupthink rather than doing that to ensure it's a group decision.

I felt this was a bit unfair, as the task was for a specific client base and this girl was waffling on very generally, but I guess thems the breaks if you're in a group that's not particularly effective.

I think I was probably PFOed more on the interview, but they said it was "holistic", not a score per component, so you couldn't really tell.

Ugh, that really sucks. I'm sorry to hear! Sounds a lot like what someone I know got for their feedback too post group exercise. In that case, he strongly felt the group was making a mistake, but didn't manage to persuade them politically, so he went along with the group think and then for the feedback call, said all the rest of the performance was all great, it was just that one aspect of the group exercise that was wrong.

There's no winning in that case and you just take the bad luck of having gotten stuck with a bad group.
At the very least, I hope that girl didn't get an offer either!

 

[AryanAgg]

Ugh, that really sucks. I'm sorry to hear! Sounds a lot like what someone I know got for their feedback too post group exercise. In that case, he strongly felt the group was making a mistake, but didn't manage to persuade them politically, so he went along with the group think and then for the feedback call, said all the rest of the performance was all great, it was just that one aspect of the group exercise that was wrong.

There's no winning in that case and you just take the bad luck of having gotten stuck with a bad group.
At the very least, I hope that girl didn't get an offer either!

So they wanted him to persuade the group more?

 

[TheSaulGoodman]

Has anyone heard from Russel Cooke since the original batch of PFOs/Zoom invites?

 

[floral.tcla]

is the law saville assessment a standard verbal reasoning test?