• Get Everything You Need to Secure a Training Contract
    Now half the price. Join TCLA Premium for £30/month and get step-by-step application support, daily commercial awareness practice, and 700+ successful examples of past applications and interview experiences. Plus so much more.
    Join Premium →
  • Office Hours with BCLP (Live Q&A)
    17 December 2025 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm (UK) Hosted on TCLA TV
    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!

    📺 View Event →

Search results

  1. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    We are ALL IN for this TC in 2026 🥳🤞
  2. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Anyone heard from W&C today? (Post-app)
  3. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Any further VI invites from W&C?
  4. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Any news from Paul Weiss WVS and W&C WVS post-app?
  5. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Anybody still waiting to receive the FF Stage 2 Test? For reference I did the Stage 1 Test on 18 October.
  6. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Congrats!!! Would you mind sharing when you completed the first test? 😊
  7. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Will the Latham VI will be competency/ motivational or commercial? Based on the email it seems it may be competency based but I am not too sure. 🤔
  8. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Anyone received the stage 2 assessment for Latham’s open day?
  9. J

    Documenting my TC Journey (Project TC🚀)

    UPDATE Last week was hard, I am waiting to hear from a firm I am really keen on progressing so I am trying not to spiral every 5 minutes! However, applications are often really hard to predict so I have been distracting myself with other applications. It has been productive so far, applied to...
  10. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Saturday, received the assessment on Monday, you have 5 days to complete.
  11. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Any tips for the FF assessment?
  12. J

    Documenting my TC Journey (Project TC🚀)

    Thank you so much Abbie and this is so true, I definitely compare and it is truly the thief of joy! I will follow your advice! I hope you update with some good news soon!😊
  13. J

    Documenting my TC Journey (Project TC🚀)

    Thank you so much @Abbie Whitlock as always your advice and support is extremely valuable to me! If you could have one advice you would give yourself if you were going through the process again, what would it be? ☺️
  14. J

    Documenting my TC Journey (Project TC🚀)

    UPDATE Wow it has been a while since I updated my thread! I can’t believe it we are nearly in mid October so far I submitted three applications and received two rejections (yikes). Balancing a full time job, life commitments and applications is taking a tool on me. I am proceeding slower...
  15. J

    TC Journey

    You are doing great! Good luck with your interview with Jones Day!
  16. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Hey! My understanding is that they removed the test this year? I could be wrong but I remember grad rec saying this somewhere. The next stage is interview I believe.
  17. J

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    wait…video interview questions as well? 😔
  18. J

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Omg what is the application question😭😭
  19. J

    Ask Paul, Weiss Anything! (2025/26)

    Thank you for the confirmation @LizzieArthey Would I be able to know when applicants should expect to hear back after the deadline? Warm regards, Jasmine
  20. J

    Ask Paul, Weiss Anything! (2025/26)

    Hi @Paul @ Paul Weiss Hope you are doing well! I wanted to know whether applications are screened on a rolling basis and then interview invites are being sent after the deadline. Or if everything is done after the deadline. Thank you in advance. Warm regards, Jasmine

About Us

The Corporate Law Academy (TCLA) was founded in 2018 because we wanted to improve the legal journey. We wanted more transparency and better training. We wanted to form a community of aspiring lawyers who care about becoming the best version of themselves.

Get Our 2026 Vacation Scheme Guide

Nail your vacation scheme applications this year with our latest guide, with sample answers to law firm questions.

    Share this page

    Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2022 XenForo Ltd. | Style and add-ons by ThemeHouse | Community services from Audentio
    XenCarta 2 PRO © Jason Axelrod of 8WAYRUN
    Top Bottom