• 📅 Vacation Scheme Applications 2025–26

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  1. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Rejected post AC for Addleshaw Goddard. Happy to offer help and advice for anyone with an invite.
  2. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Bates Wells WG invite
  3. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    The Rest is Money and Politics are both great. If you get past the political leanings and the “contentious” personalities, you get a broad, sufficiently detailed, and easy to understand comprehension of what goes on within and between business/politics. It focuses massively on context, which...
  4. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    September 2025
  5. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Thanks for the insight Jessica. Where I have begun working, they offer part time hours. This means they’d be open to me staying and completing any studies necessary. Obviously this will have to pass with the firm if I end up joining. It’s an option I seem to prefer as it means I can still do...
  6. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Does anyone have good insight in to why they would choose a Traditional TC over a Graduate Solicitor Apprenticeship (1 year as an apprentice whilst studying and 2 years doing the normal TC) and vice versa? I have to make my decision by 5pm today! Context: I’m a non law grad who has just joined...
  7. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Hope all is well! I don’t want to say “don’t worry about it” because I completely get your uncertainty and doubt. My friend who has a TC with HSF was in the exact same position. Waited almost a week to hear back. The silence was gruelling. Turns out the partner who made the decision went on a...
  8. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Same! I’m for Feb 3rd. Wishing you the best of luck.
  9. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Which office?
  10. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Addleshaws AC invite for London Spring VS. For future questions; I applied all the way back in May, completed the CRT in September and my VI on the 10th of Jan. Best of luck and if anyone wants to chat prep please get in touch!
  11. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    When is your AC?
  12. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    did you get invite? if so congrats!
  13. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Don't wait on AG. I applied back in May and received an update in September. I'm sure it won't be close to that but know they will take as much time as they need. If you completed the VI already, let's say the first week of Jan, then I don't think they'll avoid giving a response just before the...
  14. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    For AG = Completed the Voice Interview on the 10th of Jan. Went much better than I expected but it is so up in the air. Been waiting since May last year for this one application so if I don’t make AC that’s so disappointing😭. For CMS = Completed the WG on the 18th of Oct. Honestly not to...
  15. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Has anyone heard back from AG (Addleshaw), Bates Wells, DAC, CMS (for the grad solicitor apprenticeship), and Lewis Silkin? I have applied for all of them long before the end of October. For AG = Completed the critical thinking test on the 26th of Oct For CMS = Completed the WG on the 18th of...
  16. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    This Addleshaw or akin gump?
  17. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Do national firms that have a home base located outside of London, such as, Burges Salmon in Bristol, place greater emphasis on finding candidates who have connections to the firm's home base? I'm a Midlands candidate and there are very few firms I can apply to close to me. As a non-law grad...
  18. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    They said that once you’ve passed you’ve passed. They review your application holistically but it weighs very little in the grand scheme of things. GR placed greater emphasis on the AC, as you’d expect. Bear in mind each stage is about whittling down the sea of applicants. Everyone is competent...
  19. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Amberjack...
  20. bangarangbass39

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Was this the CRT or the Video Interview?

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