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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    ok thank you! I know the word count is long but typically questions only ask you to focus on one thing, so comparatively, to me this seems like quite a short word
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Hello! Does anyone have any advice for answering the following question? If you help, I will give you unlimited virtual cookies :))) ‘In no more than 500 words, please tell us about your extra-curricular activities, positions of responsibility and an achievement of importance which you are most...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    does anyone have any advice for how you'd go about structuring the following question, please, because it asks for soooooo many things in a short word count. I will give you a virtual cookie! ‘In no more than 500 words, please tell us about your extra-curricular activities, positions of...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Has HL sent anything today?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Does anyone know how many HL SVS applicants pass the WG?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Hi Ram, thank you very much! :)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Hello, can someone please advise? If I email graduate recruitment with a question about my application that they answer and confirm my application is under review, should I reply to say thanks (for replying and letting me know)? In the original email I included thank you. I would reply because I...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    bro how long does it take to send decisions? obviously, I am the best candidate so why take so long to make me a partner, smh 😒 (obviously this is a joke and ik how few hr staff there are and how high the number of applicants are)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    anyone received any communication from Linklater's summer vs after completing the tests?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    hi, a bit random but I have a place for a firm's first year open day tomorrow... but I'm not eligible (I'm a second year on a three year course). I messaged grad rec a few days ago and they outlined the eligibility information but didn't reply to my follow up email asking whether I still have a...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Is HL like Linklaters in that (a) you have to email graduate recruitment to find out your WG results/report and (b) they will give it to u if u ask? Thanks and gl! :)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    is it worth applying to mission's vacation scheme (deadline is today, ready to submit)? it's non-rolling but ik it's the last day and idk if it's true that applicants who've previously applied to law firms unsuccessfully can be automatically screened out... I also completed work experience with...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    late November - yes it was for the SVS.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    any advice for applying to Linklater's open day?
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    hi, please can you let me know where you found out about this opportunity? was it through an organisation like seo London? thanks!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Slaughter and May - PFO. Low 2:1 in all Oxbridge modules, banging CV + cover letter. Will improve for next cycle because tbh I know that they focus a lot on grades.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I was told by grad recruitment that they only look at applicants’ responses to the online questions (thoroughly) if you’ve passed the Watson Glaser, and that one reason they have it is to make their lives easier with less applications to review? Unless you mean something different?

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