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  1. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    It’s love hearts to celebrate TCLA’s 7th birthday which is tomorrow! 🎂
  2. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Hmm… great question… I was thinking maybe it could be something like: 👀😂😂
  3. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Congrats on TCLA turning 7 years old tomorrow! 🥳 Since it is TCLA’s birthday tomorrow, can we all get a TCLA 7th anniversary premium discount. 👀 It would be just a one time thing, just purely to celebrate TCLA’s 7th birthday! 🎂🎉 What do you think? 🥲🥲
  4. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    What are these floating heart things on the forum? Can anyone else see them or am I just high as a kite? 🪁
  5. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    They’ll probably get back to all you guys bang on 17:59 tomorrow night. They defo meant it to be taken literally lmao. 😂 Best of luck to everyone who has applied to Shoosmiths. 🙂
  6. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Yeah there’s four stages: (1) written application, (2) pre-recorded VI, (3) written exercise and (4) partner interview. I think partner interviews are running until the end of next week (2-3 week time frame). 🙂
  7. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Huge congrats. 🥳
  8. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Hi @Andrei Radu, This might sound like a silly question, but how does a firm balance meeting its clients’ needs against its own? In the case of Paul, Weiss, you mentioned that Brad Karp (Chairman) made the decision to invest a lot into Paul, Weiss’ unprecedented expansion into London, with the...
  9. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Someone who had their interview recently told me that Paul, Weiss’ interviews are running till next Friday (based on what HR told them). I’m not sure whether Paul, Weiss are doing interviews for both Spring VS and Summer VS at the same time or separately. I was told by this person that it’s the...
  10. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Perhaps they received a lot more applications this year compared to last year and so are sending out PFO’s in a staggered way? We don’t know if people received PFO before or after the March date on last year’s thread, but simply chose not to say anything. 🤷🏾‍♂️ The interviews are virtual and...
  11. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    This is probably the likely scenario. It might be they have finished sending out interview invites for the time being and now will start sending out PFO’s to mostly everyone remaining. They could have a number of ‘reserve’ candidates that they can offer interviews to if those doing interviews at...
  12. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    That’s actually impressive tbh. I was struggling to get past 800 words lmao. 😂 I think my split was around 125 for why commercial law, 375 for why White & Case and then 250 for why me (750 words in total). 🥲 The remaining 50-75 words were for short introductory and concluding sentences e.g...
  13. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    From what I’ve seen on the forum, Ashurst have done all their AC’s. Some people have received VS offers and some are still waiting to hear back the outcome post AC. If you haven’t heard back from Ashurst post app, they will be sending their PFO’s out on the 28th (pushed back from the 14th). I’m...
  14. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    It could be possible that more than 1 person on the forum has heard back but only 1 person posted about it? It might also depend on when they had their AC. If they had their AC earlier in the timeline of AC’s, they will probably have heard back sooner from Freshfields. Best of luck for the DTC...
  15. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    These are the dates on their website about AC and VS. I think people that got AC invites first (sent out yesterday) will probably be doing the first or second date out of the options below:
  16. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I read somewhere recently that the BRICS nations are good options because they have a lot of potential for economic growth. However, I think some firms are looking at Singapore as an alternative to China (ongoing political tensions). I’m not sure if these are 100% correct though. 🥲🥲
  17. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Jheeze this is the kind of problem I aspire to have someday. Bro is too GOATed frfr! 🐐 Multiple VS offers so having to withdraw from some. I would class that as a uno reverse PFO. 😂
  18. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    I think they just state that the max is 1,000 words. I’m sure it was the same for the VS application. My cover letter for the VS was like 800 words and I got past the application stage, so I think anything between 700-850 words is fine. It needs to be concise and structured into three parts: why...
  19. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Finally after almost 6 weeks of waiting Travers Smith PFO. For reference, I applied very close to the deadline I think maybe 1-2 days before. 🥲 I almost missed it entirely because it was hidden amongst a bunch of TCLA notifications lmao. It got sent at around 5pm today. 🥲
  20. Harvey Specter

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    This is what someone said the Ropes AC consists of. It sounds like a full day thing tbh.

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