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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    To make it personal, attach it to your experiences. How do your personal experiences align with the specific innovative practice groups? Take your individuality and the firm’s individuality and find the common themes that connect the two - this should then be more tailored to the firm and also...
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    There would be nothing to stop them from potentially retracting the offer if they found out you’d breached a term in that offer. Considering a trainee would need to complete onboarding processes and provide all their previous employment, its not completely unfeasible for the firm to find out...
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    They are about to invest tens of thousands of pounds into your training and that’s before you have even joined the firm. They don’t want to risk spending that money and then you deciding to go and work for another firm you prefer because you have done a vacation scheme with them.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    @axelbeugre - would you mind taking this question?
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It’s not a bad thing - you have applied, you are in the running! The only negative would have been if you didn’t apply at all.
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Highly unlikely. They may not even spot it because they can’t assume that isn’t your address. It maybe obvious to you, but might not be to your reader.
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    This doesn’t have to be anything big or controversial. I think its important that your opinion had some kind of contribution or impact even if you didn’t manage to transform everyone to your view point. How I would approach it: - Explain the situation of why you held the opinion and a short...
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    As long as you can be specific with the resources online, this will be fine.
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Reality is most firms will be fluid with numbers - its not a disaster if they under recruit, but they will be able to increase slightly for the right candidates, assuming they need to.
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Can be absolutely anything and doesn’t have to have any connection to law/business. Pick something that genuinely excites and inspires you.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Really wouldn’t worry about this. Freshfields have a labour intensive process and only get through so many candidates a day. I suspect they are only interviewing on certain days as well. They won’t be scheduling interviews they won’t need, and if need be they can always up their VS numbers...
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    Flex Legal Paralegal Roles

    For most firms, paralegals will have to apply for TCs like other candidates. It is a bit of a catch-22 unfortunately - you are much more likely to secure something if you get your graduate visa. It won’t be impossible to do it the other way around, but it will be more challenging. Not all...
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It is the 15th - so tomorrow.
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    They have a lot of roles to fill - I would be surprised if it was late Feb (used to be that late back in the day, especially as the were doing VS and TC ACs side by side).
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    If it is an attachment, don’t make margins too narrow. They will prefer it to fall over one page than they will it being crammed into one.
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I would expect this to only be a TC offer rather than vacation scheme. Firms can add terms to their TC offers that state you can’t do vacation schemes elsewhere, but that will be subject to you accepting first. If you can get them to extend the offer, then you won’t have accepted this term and...
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I look at it differently - lots of people do different schemes each year and then weigh up which firm is the best for them. I'd much prefer people to do this and make an informed decision than being forced to accept the first offer they get.
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Depends what stage they are at. If before mid-September in their penultimate year, there is this "best practice" code that you can hold the offer until mid-September and not have to accept or decline it until then do they can do other schemes with other firms. Not all firms keep to the code...
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    No need to address it to anyone as it is a personal statement rather than a cover letter, and so you can just go straight into your opening statement/sentence.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    Flex Legal Paralegal Roles

    This is tricky - there won’t be a lot of these roles, and where the do exist hours can still be quite fixed and therefore may be difficult to do alongside studying. I think it can also be tricky to find part time and remote - the only part time role I have heard of recently needed to be in the...

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