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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    As it’s been 2-3 weeks, I would send them an email and just enquire when you may hear back.
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    What am I doing wrong?

    There is an in-house Instagram account that’s pretty good at sharing roles: https://www.instagram.com/inhouselegal?igsh=MWtuandpa3QxMnpteQ==
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Any roles that develop transferable skills will also work - it would be easier to list the roles that this wouldn’t apply to rather than those that did.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    SRA Character and Suitability (Debt Management Plan)

    I can only see it delaying your start date rather than jeopardising your offer entirely. I have seen reference checks take longer than the SRA’s turnaround times, and offers weren’t rescinded then. When it’s a matter of weeks, firms will just be patient and sit it out. To go back to market and...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    SRA Character and Suitability (Debt Management Plan)

    I suspect the advice/guidance you have been given is going to be the most accurate on this matter. Even if others have gone through this, timescales with the SRA can vary a lot depending on various factors. You may benefit from this process being outside of the peak August/September...
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Both are great roles to secure after graduation and whilst you pursue a training contract. It will be role dependent, but they both should bring a lot of value to your future application through the knowledge and skills you gain. Other roles can do this to though, so it’s not vital to secure...
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    The position needs to be more about the day job - what is going to interest you about the work and responsibilities you will have for the role you are applying to. While the career needs to be a longer term view of why you would stay at that firm for a good amount of time. I would try to get...
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Amazing news! Congratulations (you’ll have to change your screen name as it’s clearly not accurate 😂!)
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Yes - very common. Most exercises (not just written ones) are designed in a way that many people won’t complete them fully in the time provided. Weighting will vary from firm to firm and from exercise to exercise. Some firms don’t go just by exercise but by the individual competencies within...
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I can’t really comment on this with any certainty without knowing how the firm assesses the exercise unfortunately.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    No - it wont be the case. Just be prepared for any questions about how you would choose between the two firms if they both offered you a TC.
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You wouldn’t need to introduce yourself to a colleague - I would just write the memo for the client. If you are having to write something alongside the memo, then that would be slightly different.
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Be prepared to self fund the LPC if that is the case. I don’t know any firms that are offering LPC sponsorship anymore as it is typically more expensive than some SQE courses.
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I have been asked this a lot in recent days. The thing I would stress is that it’s not easy for law firms to run two qualification systems. There is also much more regulation and compulsory training (at cost) to the law firm on the LPC route, which isn’t needed with the SQE. It’s much easier...
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Yes - I would expect you’d need to identify them.
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    To me this is asking about a specific client where is says “choose one of”.
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Yes, that is what they are looking for. You haven’t misinterpreted the question.
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It’s one answer to one question, possibly in one of multiple assessments. Candidates tend to fixate on the things they think went wrong and then over analyse it, and even misinterpret what the interaction was. This issue seems to be a common theme in the forums at the moment and I sense other...
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Two points for each is fine. There are set numbers for these things.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Doesn’t sounds like it - sounds like you answered the question.

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