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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!
Aha are you final year as well? I've got my diss but having this internship in spring is really motivating me to not put it off until the last minute :D
Hahaha SO happy to hear @conniekatherine! Was kinda hoping we'd all be on the same scheme because #tclasolidarity but I'm on the spring scheme because I've got an Ashurst VS in june! (plus I'm also final year law so it helps to do things early).
SO happy for all of you! Now we can all go on...
Definitely great to see people like you here who've been keeping up the fight! I'm not at 29 applications, but I'm currently standing tall at 23 applications while juggling my final year LLB and my businesses and daytrading gigs ... it's been a journey but I'm honestly coming out of it a better...
Anyone here day-trade as their main gig as well? I've heard stories on RolllonFriday about lawyers making more from day-trading BTC than their jobs, and I'm keen to amp up my trading to support my finances so I can get further on the journey to owning my first home :D would be cool to find...
Seeing that it's almost the end of the working day, I'd say that maybe we'd expect to hear more tomorrow or the days coming! It's likely that they might have needed some time to sort through scores and talk about which candidates they liked.
Baker's v strong NY-London axis (get dual qualified!), it's heavy D&I investment in the past few years compared to Silver Circle/London International firms, general US-oriented exposure in terms of trainee size and it's expansion into China for me! (bilingual).
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