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My TC journey!
The M&A written exercise will be the most suitable exercise for Skadden. Written Exercise (M&A) | The Corporate Law Academy Simply order below. 1. Select your preferred time slot the next working day in your order notes. 2. You will be sent the written exercise, together with the instructions...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #29
- Forum: My Training Contract Journey
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Only apply to offices you are willing to have a long-term career in. Firms are very used to people trying to game the system by applying for a supposedly less competitive office and then try to move to London either when they go forward for a TC or upon qualification - it rarely works or goes...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #8,016
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Work Experience Section
You don't always have to link work experience back to the firm and especially in instances like this - I would focus more on your key responsibilities and any achievements for such roles. Some people also choose to group such roles together into one work experience entry, so that might be...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #13
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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My TC journey!
You will receive the 2024/25 guide to written exercise - please be aware the guide is the same for each assessment.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #27
- Forum: My Training Contract Journey
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My TC journey!
We would recommend either the legal and commercial exercise or the finance exercise. https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/product/commercial-analysis/ https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/product/written-exercise-finance/ As the team’s last day is Friday, this would need to be booked and...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #24
- Forum: My Training Contract Journey
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
We would recommend the technical exercise: https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/product/written-exercise/ Please be aware we would recommend booking this ASAP as the team are not working after the 20th December through to 2 January., so no written exercise feedback will be provided during...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,941
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
The M&A written exercise will be the most suitable exercise for Skadden. https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/product/written-exercise-ma/ Please be aware we would recommend booking this ASAP as the team are not working after the 20th December through to 2 January., so no written exercise...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,938
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5
Looks like historically most of their trainees comes from the VS but that they purposely keep a direct TC route open for those who cannot apply for VS:- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #1,437
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
No - there is no need to align everything to the largest or most profitable area. As long as the area you are focusing on regularly takes trainees, then it is not an issue for you to focus on it. It would only be very niche areas that you may not even sit in as a trainee that are areas to avoid.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,929
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Some firms do tailor emails to different groups of candidates - not all do though.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,919
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Have heard of at least one person who has got through who applied previously and didn’t get through last time.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,877
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Yes - we do have written exercises they can be found here: https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/product-category/written-exercise/ If you don’t know which exercise would be best, then you can make us aware of which firm you would like it most aligned to and we can tell you which exercise...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,876
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I don’t think this error alone would influence an application- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,683
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Yes - we can review up to 1500 words of work experience- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,682
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
The examples are all extracurriculars and in my view should not be in work experience sections. The general rule is that extracurriculars / positions of responsibility should be the things you choose to do, while work experience should be the things you are contractually committed to. The...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,672
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I’d generally try to use full names unless the name is quite unique.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,670
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
It says vacation schemes though at the start of the paragraph - so it is not clear/is inaccurate if they actually do allow grads to apply.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,664
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
There could be a few reasons (none of which I agree with). 1) helps to manage application numbers by restricting it to a certain group of people. 2) there is less risk of people reneging an offer where they cannot start another TC earlier than the offer the firm will give 3) there is less...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,662
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
https://chambers.com/department/willkie-farr-gallagher-llp-private-equity-buyouts-500-million-and-above-uk-1:3551:11805:1:3674 https://www.willkie.com/capabilities/practices/corporate-financial-services/private-equity- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,660
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
No messages have been deleted in the last week by the TCLA team. Posts can be easily deleted by the person who posted them though, and the TCLA team have no control over someone editing or deleting their previous posts. The last posts that were deleted by the TCLA team were in relation to a...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7,656
- Forum: Applications Discussion