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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Hi all, I am planning to apply next intake but have been out of the legal waters a few years working abroad. I am British and currently live overseas, so I assume direct TCs are my best option (since we are long past the COVID days of online VS). I did a VS back when assessment centres were...
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    Watson Farley Williams Direct TC 2024 Status Tracker

    They are sending out offers this week (at least to the vac schemers)
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    Help buying/choosing professional clothing (especially for women)

    I have popped onto this thread in a post-exam/pre-vac scheme panic and it has been such a help. My question is about blazers. At school it was trained into me that being seen without a blazer is unacceptable (we were even reprimanded for it). I am planning to bring a blazer every day but how...
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    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Networking/career dinner question : it starts at 6, what time should I get there? Is this a show up early or on-time kind of thing?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    I've seen people mention they have AC invites from a couple weeks back so I have assumed PFO by this point
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Had 2 ACs in the past week, rejection from 1 so far and have heard nothing from my other 7 firms in over a month. I believe this is what they call being in limbo...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    No, there were two aspects of prep-time (the second was introduced to stimulate working under time pressure and changing situations I imagine) and it was applied to the first and not the second, so my "pressure" was exactly that haha
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    I would PM but don't know how! I got my extra time sorted as soon as I got the invite, they even called to tell me how it would work so I was feeling at ease. On the day however they implemented it in one aspect of the case study exercise but not the second, it may have seemed like a minor thing...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Has anyone else had just absolute failures from firms in regards to reasonable adjustments? I had my first one in an AC yesterday