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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!
Congratulations to anyone who has succeeded in their quest for an AC/VS/TC. This process is absolutely brutal mentally. Even taking away the rejections and applications, just the waiting is torturous. Example: I got in 99th percentile in a WG tests 6 weeks ago and have still heard nothing and...
Anyone who got the Reed Smith holding email over the weekend heard back from them this week? (Slightly asking this to manifest a reply for us all today)
Hey guys, can I do the cool emoji thing for Akin Gump please? 😆
✅ - Received AC invite
👍 - No news post-WG
❌ - PFO post-WG
I completed the WG in mid December and well exceeded my expectations on the score but have heard nothing. 😕
I honestly think they review the app with the WG score - maybe they just initially screen your app before sending the WG just to ensure 2:1 etc? I say this because I'm still waiting yet I scored very highly on the WG.
People getting ACs for firms I’m yet to hear back from and meanwhile I just got a third PFO from the same firm 🤣🤣 you don’t need to repeat yourself, I heard
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