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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Usually they are not negotiable. Especially if they have several TCs available a year because all trainees are paid the same - you are being offered the salary for the role you are applying for not the one you have. Sucks but I’m in the same boat taking a pay cut from my paralegal salary to my...
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    I’m a 2.1 ex poly graduate with a merit in masters in an unrelated area of law from a RG and I have a TC with a US big law firm. It’s definitely doable. Happy to share more details if you wanna message me.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I’m going to be candid here but no. It’s not likely. It’s a lot to ask of someone you don’t know. Especially when in reality they are getting nothing in return. Also mock interviews take a lot of prep for the interviewer as they are expected to give feedback and trainees themselves probably...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I’ve done three law degrees (undergrad a masters and the LPC MSc) and have no idea what you mean by ‘the legal test’. Can you elaborate or give some further context?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    you are not the first person to do this - its exactly why firms often have a reserve list! I would reach out to GR of the firm you no longer wish to attend the VS with sooner rather than later with a polite email thanking them for the interest but saying unfortunately your circumstances have...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You can certainly ask - however the firm may not have alternative dates available. I had the same thing happen last year 3 ACs in the 2 weeks with a huge number of LPC exams! It’s doable - but definitely tough.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    However you are responsible for the words you chose to put on the internet. I fail to understand how on the one hand you are calling a law firm discriminatory for guaranteeing interviews yet do not feel the need to not use discriminatory language yourself.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I didn't need to ask what you meant. I knew you meant disabled applicants on one hand and non-disabled on the other. There is nothing to settle, I merely pointed that the way I distinguished between the two characteristics was the way to do so without using ableist language. You are trying to...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I am struggling to see where I suggested that your intention was to cause offence. I don't think you intended to do so at all. However, regardless of your intention your choice of language could have been better, it came across in a negative and ableist manner and in a legal career the language...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I don't think I am being pedantic - I think calling someone out for ableist use of language is important and the more it's called out the less it will happen. I don't want to log into a forum where I offer advice and try and help people to be called not a normal candidate because I am disabled...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I'm going to use this argument at work tomorrow - I know the contract we drafted, negotiated and signed said this exactly but the intention was the opposite. The issue was not you saying disabled candidate or candidate with a disability the issue was with you calling applicant without a...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You literally said 'normal candidate' and 'disabled candidate'. I am yet to see a law firm application have a box asking if you are a normal candidate, what you meant was someone without a disability. Language and its use matters.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I'm going to disagree - the base level is the same a minimum standard that all applicants have to reach. A disabled and non-disabled candidate have to meet that same standard. All the guaranteed interview means is the employer can't not interview them because of their disability and recognising...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You cannot say it is not based on merit when you have to reach at least a benchmark - the merit element.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I would think more about the language you use, able-bodied does not equal normal in the same way disabled does not mean abnormal.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Guaranteed interview is exactly that, guaranteed if you meet the benchmark and are disabled, not only because you are disabled!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    No firm would do this. A disabled applicant would still need to reach the benchmark. They may be entitled to reasonable adjustments such as not doing a specific type of test because their disability means they cannot do it or they cannot be fairly assessed for it.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I didn’t wear a jacket for any of my virtual ACs, wore a professional looking blouse with sleeves but no jacket. I would have have absolutely melted in a jacket as I live in what is probably London's warmest building so didn’t need to add nervous heat to that!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    They did last year. My group task assessment for direct TC was with people applying for VS.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Personally I don’t think my age made it any more of a battle than it already is! For context I was 28 when I received my TC offers last summer following two VSs. I was not the only person that age on the schemes and other trainees were that age or older! There is a real misconception that...

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