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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Has anyone heard from Latham post VI?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    yh I haven’t heard a thing
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    19th december xx I think they’re only having 2 ACs on the 9th and 11th tho is the impression I got
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Oh then take your time I’d say, blame it on undecided exam dates or something if you really need to
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    The offers I was given gave me just a few days to accept it
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I was asked it because I had a scientific/statistic background and the interviewer wanted to know why corporate law vs banking
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    If a firm asks about a commercial story that interested me at interview, does talking about the increasing interest in SPACs count as a commercial story?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    If you apply to places like Ropes & Gray or Morgan Lewis & Brockius they’re completely non rolling and have relatively straight forward application questions x
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Hey I just wanted to say that I guarantee you the majority of people that have ACs have been in your position, doubting themselves and getting rejection after rejection, I know I definitely got many rejections before my first positive response! Keep at it and you’ll get positive news very soon...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    yeah its post app x
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Just got a milbank AC!!
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Daily check on whether milbank got back to anyone yet?
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    2020-21 Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion

    Thats such a relief I thought it was almost certainly a rejection! Thanks haha
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    2020-21 Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion

    So if mine says updated on the date I submitted it does that mean they haven’t read my application yet?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    If you don’t mind me asking, what is the process of leaving a training contract? Do you have to pay back GDL/LPC fees?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Surely a lot of firms would be trying to cut costs at the moment meaning they’d lower the number of vac scheme places? Sidley winter vac scheme was lowered in numbers and I suspect a similar thing to happen for spring but I’m not 100% sure
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Just to know, has anyone heard anything from Milbank?

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