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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    No direct experience but personal interest in practice area

    Yes - I think it’s possible. You can show your interest in what you have been learning/reading, by trying to inform yourself about the sector through events or networking with people in the industry. If you have none of these when applying, it would need a clear, rational detail as to why that...
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    No
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    If the work experience hasn’t been signed off as qualifying work experience or you haven’t checked with the previous employer that they will sign it off or not (whether in the U.K. or not), I would put no.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    What are you hoping to find out about specifically?
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You don’t need a year and a half - a lot of people will only have a matter of months combined through part time jobs, internships etc.
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    UCAS Tarriff calculation for international students - how to?

    You can’t calculate UCAS points as international qualifications do not have a calculation. If it is an optional question I would leave it blank. If you have to complete it I would either put N/A or 0. The U.K. is made up of different educational systems. We don’t have one - you can study either...
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    LLM Law Graduate: Unemployed for Over 1 Year

    You include both the law firm job and the volunteer role with your family company. It being a family company is not an issue - lots of people work for their family businesses. And having five months of employment is better than having none. These days it is very rare you have to explain why...
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    My post was to describe the conversation as a whole, not just the responses to you, and I would encourage you to reflect on your active role in that unnecessary conversation if you have an issue with it.
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It is one submission per calendar month if you want feedback. I’ll check whether you can access it more generally to practice (but not get feedback from the TCLA team).
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I have been busy working today, so haven’t picked up the posts this afternoon, but please can we keep this civil and just drop this tone around “brudda”, whether that be something you chose to use language wise in the forums, or whether you then try to use it back at people who have. I haven’t...
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I would personally go if you can. It's not that it gives you any automatic progression to assessments for a VS/TC, but I think attending can really help your application stand out from the crowd. If they like you from the open day, they will be looking out for your application and I think when...
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Have they invited you to the open day?
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    They have found that information out restrospectively, not because they are actively thinking "we should give this person three times more chance than the next candidate". It is correlation that is creating this, not a direct policy that "lets" candidates have a stronger chance.
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    What I would stress is it is not that Clifford Chance "let" people who did their Forage internship have a 3x higher chance of getting through, they have just found that those who have done the programmes have a three times higher chance of getting through.
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It is important not to think too rigidly with these things before you see the assessment. How you would approach one written exercise could be completely different to the next, depending on the task you have been given and the audience you are writing for. The use of heading/subheading is...
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    As it states indefinitely, I would say no.
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Random late-night top tip when writing applications! I would recommend avoiding the term "interpersonal skills" and claiming you have them. Interpersonal skills are actually a broad and diverse mix of skills and the term is so vague it can often be less impactful using it. Here are just some...
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    If the firm has a strength in employment law and you are likely to sit in this department during your training contract, that would be fine to include. You may just want to supplement this with other aspects as to why you want to be a commercial lawyer at that firm.
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Depends on the firm - some Spring applications get more apps, some summer schemes get more apps. I would always apply to what scheme works best for you, as the standard of candidates they invite to interview wont be any different between the two firms.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Ultimately it is up to you how you want to approach this. Given firm B is your first choice though, I don't see any reason why you couldn't proceed with the interview/final AC and see how it goes. You can always renege on firm A if needed. If you got an offer for firm B, then you would have to...

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