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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TC meaning

    The above explanation is spot on. You may find non-SQE TCs referred to as a "period of recognised training" which is the formal name if you are training under the LPC qualification route.
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    About to start SQE Sponsored by my MC Firm - looking to postpone start date

    I would try to call your point of contact at the firm today to see if they are working today/tomorrow/Friday, as I think it would be best to flag this to them as soon as possible. The more notice they have, the more likely they will be able to consider this. It might be that the person who...
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You will need to pick one area - be mindful project finance will be considered one and environmental litigation another.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    To me this is more practice area rather than sector specific. However, there tends to be cross-overs - for instance, Real Estate, M&A, Private Equity, Technology/TMT all can be seen as both practice areas and sectors. If you do go with more of a sector approach, I would focus on the legal work...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    What is the specific question?
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    The key to this question is recognising an instance where changing your mind led to a better outcome. Lawyers need to have the emotional intelligence to realise where their approach to something or decision-making isn't the best route to take and then adapt to ensure a better outcome. I would...
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    Firms with no minimum alevel requirements

    Many firms do not have minimum A-level grades these days. For those that do, you can explain you went to university based on year 12 grades and can explain this is common in your home country. You can take your A-levels if you want to (it sounds like you wouldn't be resitting them, but sitting...
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It can be any deal - it doesn't need to be something the firm has worked on. I would just make sure it is a deal of interest to the firm (e.g. if they have a sector focused approach, that the deal is within one of their areas of expertise).
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    This can be anything you would like to include but that hasn’t naturally been able to be presented in other sections, because you haven’t been asked but you think it’s quite vital for your candidacy. This shouldn’t be anything you ran out of space to include, but anything where you haven’t been...
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    Resitting A-Levels and future implications?

    Your first sitting of your A-level grades are likely to be sufficient unless the A* is in something like general studies/critical thinking or for your EPQ. If that is the case, you have very little to worry about, and you will just need to explain your rationale for resitting.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    It is fine to use an example from the work experience - I would just not describe the skill on the work experience entry and focus more on how the skill was developed in the application question to make sure there isn’t really much duplication of content.
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    That is a bit strange. It might be that they formally assess the other questions (eg score it) but still watch the practice question. But still seems a bit odd to do that in my opinion - can see why it is confusing to candidates.
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    No - there will always be weaknesses within a SJT report. It is impossible to know how the firm assessed the importance of the strengths and weaknesses though - only the firm would really be able to provide guidance on this.
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    No - they generally won’t have access to the practice questions. It would be very odd to label something as a practice question and then for it to be part of the recruitment process/assessment.
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP

    I would contact the firm to check whether you need the SQE or LPC before starting, as this is not clear from their website. Hopefully you might get a response on Wed/Thur/Friday next week ahead of the deadline.
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I need some help! Can anyone confirm that for Addleshaw Goddard, all of the application answers are 2,000 characters?
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You should just state something like “I expect to start a SQE prep course in Month Year, with a view to sit the assessments on Year” or “Shortly after graduating, I hope to start an SQE prep course and sit the SQE assessments in Year” - you don’t need to distinguish whether that is subject to...
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    You don’t need to put what you have done into this question. You just need to summarise what a commercial lawyer does in your own words. They are assessing your knowledge of the job and your drafting skills for this question - not what you have done in the past
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Technical questions tend to be more about how certain processes work, such as how the law could be applied. Commercial awareness tends to be broader than this, more the business reasoning why you are/need to instruct the firm in the first place. Eg: technical - what steps would a firm...
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You could put it as "BLM (now Clyde & Co)" or "BLM (now part of Clyde & Co)" to make it clearer that it was BLM at the time.

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