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  1. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    The grad rec/HR team when they see you walking in to the AC looking so damn fly:
  2. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Me thinks this thread should get the TCLA lifetime achievement award for being the most entertaining thread since TCLAs launch! @Jaysen
  3. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Just do this instead I’m sure the partners would be happy to join in too to lighten the mood:
  4. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Freshfields seeing this post and rocking up to the court after deciding to sue The Bank of England for IP infringement for copying their font:
  5. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/careers/legal-careers I found these two things doing some quick Google searches. Idk if they’ll be useful though lmao.
  6. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Clyde & Co’s grad rec team after finalising the VI questions and timings cos they made it hard asf:
  7. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Grad rec struggling to work out how much extra time to add to your WG test like:
  8. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Everyone rushing to bombard you with messages after seeing your case study post:
  9. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Honestly I found this question rly hard too but in the end I decided to write about witnessing first hand how the COVID-19 vaccines were approved by regulators so quickly (looking at the diff internal procedures) and the current patent litigations that have arisen between pharmaceutical...
  10. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    CMS and Charles Russell Speechlys after seeing this post about their cringy TikTok’s:
  11. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    On last year’s thread it seems like people began to receive ACs between the end of Jan and mid Feb so maybe they’ll do the same this year. Idk why they’re taking so long this year though cos they did bring the app deadline forward.
  12. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Weil’s grad rec team making their forum debut:
  13. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    I think I saw someone post on the forum a couple of days ago they’d been called by grad rec for a Davis Polk interview, idk much about the others.
  14. Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    The post test feedback report you’ll receive after hitting all of the SJT strengths at once: The firms decision after reviewing the test scores and seeing maxed out SJT pillars (still a PFO):

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