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From AI to Energy Deals: Inside a Full-Service Law Firm with Osborne Clarke
8 Dec 2025 · 6pm (UK)
Zoom · Registration Required
You want to write a strong Osborne Clarke application — but what really makes the firm different, and how do trainees experience the work day-to-day?
In this session, you’ll hear directly from current trainees and Recruitment Advisor Patrick Fermin Ryan, so you can speak with clarity and specificity in your applications and interviews.
"oh so how long have you been desperado for a TC/frantically refreshing your emails/trying to master the elusive title of being "commercially aware"?
psych its actually triple that.
Haven't been on here in a while as took a post-rejection break lol...
just wanted to say three things - 1) thanks again everyone for this forum it genuinely has made such a positive difference to me during this application grind. 2) saw some people talking about uni careers services -- I...
thank you this means a lot. this platform is so supportive -- will try to be lighthearted about it and just get on with hopefully getting a TC elsewhere 🤞
thanks yeah this is actually really helpful to read -- I hope you've now found somewhere else that's your real dream firm!! its strange and sad especially when you're relatively self critical but you actually think you performed pretty well and have confidence for once and then it gets knocked...
just got a rejection from my dream firm after doing a vac scheme. won't get feedback for weeks, and thought I did well on the scheme. its such a blow and I don't know how much longer I can be in this cycle of rejection. I tried so so hard on the vac scheme and thought that I had done well on the...
Re the first paragraph:
everyone has said really useful smart things so I will just add - 1) its not a PFO until its a PFO: its so shit the waiting and impending rejections but just focus on new applications and try to boot the submitted ones out of your mind as much as possible. just got to...
Anyone got any HSF AC advice? Am getting quite nervous and can't find that much info on their website or insta etc?
Also congratulations to all those powering through with applications and interviews. Wishing all of you the best
@George Maxwell hi, I have an AC soon with HSF and I am a bit nervous (and reeeealllyy keen to do well) and I am not quite sure what to expect. I was wondering if you might be able to offer any advice as I saw on here you (I think?) were successful at a VS AC? many thanks!
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