• Get Everything You Need to Secure a Training Contract
    Now half the price. Join TCLA Premium for £30/month and get step-by-step application support, daily commercial awareness practice, and 700+ successful examples of past applications and interview experiences. Plus so much more.
    Join Premium →
  • From AI to Energy Deals: Inside a Full-Service Law Firm with Osborne Clarke
    8 Dec 2025 · 6pm (UK) Zoom · Registration Required
    You want to write a strong Osborne Clarke application — but what really makes the firm different, and how do trainees experience the work day-to-day? In this session, you’ll hear directly from current trainees and Recruitment Advisor Patrick Fermin Ryan, so you can speak with clarity and specificity in your applications and interviews.
    Register →

Search results

  1. K

    My final application cycle (fingers crossed!!)

    Updates! - unfortunately got rejected by Mayer Brown for their Open Day. But that's alright, I can still apply for the VS :) - just completed Clyde & Co's online assessment --> not too confident for this section as I have not practiced WG in a longgg time. Also whilst I've scored average 80%...
  2. K

    My final application cycle (fingers crossed!!)

    Update to the applications: - Just submitted my first application of the season, which is Mayer Brown's Open Day App!! :) - Hoping to submit the following open/insight day apps to the following firms: HSF Kramer Wilkie Farr & Gallagher Thoughts/strategy so far: I'm hoping to work on...
  3. K

    My final application cycle (fingers crossed!!)

    This is very sweet of you Abbie, thank you so much! And thank you as well for your encouragement and advice, I'm truly so touched by them. I wish you all the best for SQE1 as well! :)
  4. K

    My final application cycle (fingers crossed!!)

    Hi everyone! This will be my 4th application cycle and am truly hoping that it would be my last :") I was inspired by the threads created by everyone from previous years and have always wanted to post one myself but was always too afraid to. But this year, I decided that enough was enough and...
  5. K

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Hi everyone! This is my first time posting on this forum and also my first time ever getting a VI invite!! Please could I get any tips on Bristows VI? or any tips in general on how to prepare, what kind of questions to prepare, etc.? Thank you so much and I wish everyone all the best!! <3

About Us

The Corporate Law Academy (TCLA) was founded in 2018 because we wanted to improve the legal journey. We wanted more transparency and better training. We wanted to form a community of aspiring lawyers who care about becoming the best version of themselves.

Get Our 2026 Vacation Scheme Guide

Nail your vacation scheme applications this year with our latest guide, with sample answers to law firm questions.