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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Michelmores online assessment invite!!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    For questions like 'what aspects of the solicitor role do you find most interesting', should a lot of the focus be on commercial-driven interests?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Genuinely find it odd that people judge others on the colour of their suit of all things??
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    Burges Salmon - Direct TC

    Hey Amma, Thank you for your reply!! I stupidly worded this and actually meant to ask 'does anyone know anyone who has ever received one'!! Obviously there must be a people that have since the route is open, but just wanted ask anyway haha
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    Burges Salmon - Direct TC

    Hello! Does anyone know anyone who has received a Burges Salmon TC from the direct TC route?
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Wow, that is motivation alright! Thank you for the response!!
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Has anyone gotten past the application stage for a direct TC despite having minimal legal experience/ career experience more generally?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Someone please offer some advice... I was planning on applying for Burges Salmon's direct TC, however I am unsure whether it may be wiser to wait and apply for the vac scheme when it opens up in autumn. I don't think I'd be able to apply for the upcoming vac schemes if I get rejected from...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    How feasible is it to write 1800 words in a day? Asking for a friend (it’s me, I’m the friend)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Literally.. it feels like a mind game against yourself sometimes
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Also re SH, q1 and 2 feel so similar... I'm gonna be rinsing every bit of experience i've gained lol
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    i keep putting it off because the thought of writing 1800 words is actually draining
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    @Jessica Booker would appreciate your thoughts!!
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Thanks both! Really helpful. I’m currently volunteering at a law clinic, and work as an assistant (more admin than legal, but am exposed to legal stuff obv) at a law firm; was just wondering if that would be alright in terms of firms viewing this as ‘legal experience’
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Does anyone have ideas on what experience is decent for direct TC apps? I don't have paralegal experience but is that necessarily a hinderance?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Does anyone have ideas on what experience is decent for direct TC apps? I don't have paralegal experience but is that necessarily a hinderance?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I just find it bizarre how (some) younger students act like it’s the strangest thing in the world to find people older than them applying to the same roles they’re applying for. And to make matters worse, they seem to have some innate urge to actively share with you their ‘wonder’ 😭
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    Michelmores Vac Scheme

    Thank you so much for this!! Very grateful for the detail of your answers!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Will the next cycle start in autumn? And will it be for a 2028 intake?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Hey Jessica, thank you so much for this, it is really helpful. I was doing exactly that because I thought it would be a sort of framework for an answer; I've never attempted a question like this before, so was trying to grasp at straws, really! And yes, it was in reference to that although...

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