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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You might want to send a private message to @Mahesh for his views on this. My view is that either way you would be fine. Even if a department is deemed more technical, they won't expect the vacation scheme students to have that technical knowledge. I have seen non-law students with little...
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Hi @CallumJR - the mock interviews are either with Chloe or Mahesh - but you can book them here - Mock Interview | The Corporate Law Academy
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I wouldn't have emailed RS until at least midday on Monday..... the working day isn't even over yet for most firms.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Definitely don't chase until at least 72 working hours (By this I mean three working days!) after they have said they will come back to you, unless finding out impacts another offer decision you need to make. And even then, I would only chase the next working day. Do not chase on the day that...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Further to @Jaysen 's post, I wanted to share my thoughts on last night. It's a long post, but something very important to me, hence the detail. It took me a while to consider whether to even post this and then also what I wanted to say. But after last night's debate on diversity, racism...
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    As I posted earlier, people are welcome to take the discussions around diversity and discrimination to the general discussion thread (as long as they can keep the conversation civilised) and start a new thread/conversation in there. All other posts and any responses to them on this subject in...
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Thanks for clarifying - this is useful, so thank you for sharing this information.
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Its hard to know whether they would count the Wednesday as a day or not. I suspect it actually means through to 23.59 on Saturday (test systems aren't sophisticated enough to know the hour you received the email and usually just turn off when a day turns into the next at midnight). YOu might...
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING Discussions around matters like the topics of diversity in the legal profession are important ones to have. However, in this instance, it has overtaken a thread and derailed it. Therefore, I would recommend that if anyone wants to continue this discussion, they start...
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Thank you for the reports on several posts in this thread. I am currently looking into this matter and will come back to individual reports and the thread more generally in due course once I have managed to read everything. Please can everyone remain civil during such conversations.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Most likely would be merged offers. I haven’t known a merged firm to cancel TCs before anyway.
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    How can I identify a legal issue/development that will impact a given law firm?

    I would list down your key areas of interest in commercials law. I would cross reference this with the firm’s strengths, whether that be practice areas or sectors I’d then try to find a story in this pool that links to these two criteria. In terms of structuring your answer, explain in...
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I suspect it is on a word document anyway if it is virtual. It would be much more difficult for the firm to get a paper version from you.
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You can contact them to ask when you will hear back if this wasn't made clear at the assessment centre.
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Any firm whose TC numbers are similar or higher than the number of VS spaces will recruit a decent number of direct trainees. Not all VS applicants are offered, and of those who are offered, not all of them will accept, and so if a firm recruits 20 vac schemers and 20 trainees, there is a good...
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    No - the interview is about you not them. I would look them up on LinkedIn or the firm's website to understand their role, but I wouldn't do any further digging than that unless there was something that stood out as being interesting to you.
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I wouldn't really go out of my way to connect with people before the scheme - it would be better to do this during the scheme (it will come across as more genuine). There is some great advice here: Convert your vacation scheme into a training contract | The Corporate Law Academy Vacation...
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Preferred name at events, legal name on applications. You can often put a preferred name on applications too.
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    This is going to come across as slightly contradictory (unfortunately). Your reports will be different if you are trying to change your approach to questions based on what you think the firm wants you to say/answer, rather than how you would naturally respond. However, trying to think about...
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    My advice is to outline any of the assumptions/variables you would need to consider in the sceanrio. For instance with the following sceanerio: A senior partner at your law firm comes into your office to give you some work. You are trying to keep up, but he leaves before you get a chance to...

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