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17 December 2025
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm (UK)
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Join Isabel Elsey, Legal Recruitment Manager at BCLP, for a live Q&A session. Get details on secondments, innovation, growth areas, and everything else you’ve wanted to ask about life at BCLP!
Has anyone got a PFO from either TS or Simmons for the WVS before the AC? Trying to gauge if they just don’t let you know at all for PFOs at that point. I know people have been getting ACs….
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I haven’t heard back yet from the VI but prepping in case I get an AC invite as I have never done one before. Can I check the day is split into these elements 1) case study 2) in tray (inbox) exercise 3) client discussion exercise (guessing this is the group but) 4) one to one interview...
I’m still waiting to hear back post VI and I submitted my application the day before the deadline and my video interview 9 days after receiving the invite (and it said you have up to ten days).
Hello! Have you found your a levels to affect your success rate? Talking purely for the firms that have a level requirements. I got ABC at a level and no mitigating circumstances and I have deliberately not applied to firms that have a criteria but maybe I should apply anyway?
Edit: sorry I...
I did mine today. I scored ok in everything apart from self management so prioritising tasks! The assessment was very SJT/verbal/numerical heavy! Not as many video questions as I thought…
Agreed, it would be good if there was a breakdown somewhere with this data (although the list of firms provided earlier was good). Does anyone also have an insight into what the conversion process is like for different firms. I.e. post vac scheme interviews/feedback from your supervisors, or do...
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I am a 27 year old looking to change careers into law. I have started applying for some vac schemes and the first one I began yesterday asked for two referees, one academic and one professional.
The issue on the academic side is I didn’t go to a traditional uni rather I have obtained a...
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