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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Gemma (Willkie) is the graduate recruitment GOAT. 🐐- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I was on LinkedIn before and I came across a link to a TCLA YouTube video with Jaysen (TCLA) and Gemma (Willkie). In this application cycle, they received just under 1,400 applications (1,396), which is crazy for only 20 VS places and 6-7 TC offers. 😦 I imagine if 25% were moved to the VI...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I think applications normally open in Sept for each year and most Open Days take place around Nov/Dec. Some VS applications open in Aug for WVS and close in Sept (A&O Shearman, Ashurst, Freshfields, etc). 🙂 Spring and Summer VS applications normally open in Sept/Oct and close in Dec/Jan. 🙂- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
What would you say in relation to competition for certain seats (e.g., international arbitration) at Freshfields, given the firm has an eight-seat trainee associate programme. If each intake has 40-50 trainees (two cohorts per year) and for each seat rotation, a vast majority of trainees...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
£15 a night for beachfront accommodation in Sri Lanka is crazy good! In the UK, £15 would barely get someone a Nando’s these days lmao. 😂- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I guess I was looking at it from the perspective of international arbitration specifically. If there were 100 Freshfields trainees who were all seeking to qualify into international arbitration only, it would be more competitive than 5-10 trainees at Debevoise & Plimpton looking to qualify into...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I would think it depends on the size of the firm and in relation to its graduate recruitment, how many trainees the firm takes on. For example, a firm like Debevoise & Plimpton takes on around 10 trainees. For a firm like this, I would imagine it’s less competitive to enter international...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Some firms would probably be recruiting for a 2027 start but most would be 2028/29 I think. The next cycle starts around August / September time for WVS applications.- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Thank you so much @Andrei Radu this was so useful. I have been trying to wrap my head around this topic for a couple of days and had virtually no luck at all. This makes it seem somewhat less complicated than I perhaps initially thought it was (the big words probably threw me off). I didn’t...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Could someone please explain the difference between debt finance and equity finance and what the relative advantages and disadvantages are of each type of financing (in the context of PE), but in a way that would be digestible to a lay person. Why would one be chosen over the other? I’m trying...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
In addition to what @VMS said, I think you can also try see if the firm has any forage internships that you could complete. This could help you understand the kind of work a trainee would do and the kinds of matters that the firm typically advises on. 🙂 Perhaps if the firm hosts virtual events...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I’ve probably asked this question at least 10x by now but has anyone heard from Travers Smith or Ropes & Gray at all? Low-key starting to crash out from waiting this long lmao. 😂🥲- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Is this why they asked on their application form for one of their 500 word questions “how do business generate and maintain a profit.” These guys were trying to get some ideas from us lmao. Icl it’s clever on their part. I hope they took some detailed notes. 😂- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I remember at their open day, someone asked why their trainee retention rates were so low and why BCLP seems like a sinking ship, and the partner basically dodged the question and waffled about how the firm is recognised for its training quality. Having said that, I may or may not re-apply for...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Most of us who got invited to interview scored between 20-24 on the SJT. I think scoring anything above 20 will be fine. However, since Paul, Weiss assess test scores alongside written application, I think it would also depend on the quality of the application as well. I’m sure you’ll hear back...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
By video interview (VI), do you mean like a pre-recorded style VI, or any kind of VI? I think Travers Smith have a similar process to Slaughter and May, except the partner interviews are conducted virtually. People who pass that interview get the VS offer, and do the AC during the VS. I think I...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
There is some crossover between both IP Law and Competition Law, especially in the area of patents, but they are quite different areas at the same time. 🥲 I want to explore both during a training contract (I did both as final year optional modules and really liked them). It would definitely...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
This is really useful @Amma Usman! 🐐 Competition law is acc proper interesting. I’m a fiend for it at this point. I really liked it as a undergrad module. In almost all of my applications I have yapped about each firm’s competition practice for at least one of my ‘why this firm’ reasons. Even...- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
The only firms that I know of that have a deadline of 28th Feb for VS are RWK Goodman and Stephenson Harwood, is it either of those? 😂- Harvey Specter
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Congrats matey! 🥳- Harvey Specter
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