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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Firms will not run later ACs if they aren't needed - they don't like wasting their own time, let alone other people's.
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Feel free to PM to discuss the specifics of this, as it’s always a case by case basis as to what the adjustments need to be. It is highly unlikely you will get favourable scoring though and that an adjustment would need to be put in place instead.
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    Work Experience in Paris vs. LLM at the LSE

    Academic law and law in practice are very different - I don’t think an LLM will make your profile more appealing. Most graduate recruiters in the U.K. will tell you to only do an LLM if you want to personally do it, not to try and impress them. Given you also already have an LLM there could be...
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It won't make any difference to the outcome.
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Amazing news - congratulations!
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    As it is starting in September 2023, I would expect so.
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Anyone thinking of applying to Brown Rudnick's TC, just to make you aware their deadline is 12 noon tomorrow not just before midnight!
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Completely free tests here: AssessmentDay Critical Thinking Test Watson Glaser Practice Test [2023] - Free Sample Questions (jobtestprep.co.uk) Take A Free Watson Glaser Practice Test (10 Questions) (practicereasoningtests.com) Watson Glaser Test - free practice test (assess.ly) Free Watson...
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Definitely should be included somewhere in an application. It might not be suited to a work experience section (sometimes you can't put future dates in) and you wouldn't be able to describe it anyway. But referencing it elsewhere in an application, such as in a cover letter, motivational...
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I'd encourage people not to fixate on these details. Ultimately the firm could have a bad run of interviewees and either offer fewer people or interview more people to get to the hiring numbers they need. Both of these aspects would mean the numbers are quite different from one another. It also...
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I’d avoid repetition. This post advises on the situation for another firm with a very similar application format: https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/forum/threads/tcla-vacation-scheme-applications-discussion-thread-2022-23.5995/post-132619
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    Work Experience in Paris vs. LLM at the LSE

    I’d actually argue the work experience will be much more impactful than the LLM, especially given you already have this level of qualification. Assuming you are a non-U.K. citizen and don’t have the right to work in the U.K., the only tangible benefit of the LSE LLM is that it will allow you to...
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You don't have to have started a business to be innovate or entrepreneurial. Maybe you found a creative solution to a problem, maybe you find a new way of doing something that made a process more efficient or led to better outcomes? It doesn't need to be from work experience - it could easily be...
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I don't think it necessarily means you are not suited to the firm. What are you struggling with specifically? Is it that you don't feel you have examples of having to "drop everything" to deliver a promise or can show when you have been innovative/entrepreneurial? There isn't a TCLA dictionary...
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It depends on what you are being asked to review/analyse. Some times external information is not required, in some instances applying market trends will be important. I would read the instructions carefully to consider what is appropriate.
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    No - no other firms have this rule, it’s just Linklaters. Thanks for confirming that’s what the firm told you directly.
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It’s just a Linklaters thing (it might not even be accurate, just been referenced a few times in the forums).
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It has been referenced in the past in the forums that their stance is that you need four weeks of legal work experience to be in strong contention to be shortlisted for a TC. Don’t know the truth of this though.
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I'd personally try to focus on something unique first - think of any circumstances that you think very few people would have experienced. I don't think it really matters what it is, especially given the direction of it potentially being humourous. Then I would focus the description on why it...
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    In most cases yes, some firms will close when their office hours close though at 5.00 or 5.30pm. Some firms also set specific times - I have seen a 12 noon deadline before for instance, but in these situations they usually make the specific time clear.

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