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  1. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    on another note, Winston Taylor is giving WW2 vibes x
  2. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    can’t lie the worst is when you’re at open days and you ask one of the trainees what their journey was like, and they respond ‘I didn’t really know what I wanted to do I just thought law would be a good idea so I made a couple of apps and here I am’ - a couple of apps????
  3. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    Thank you for sharing this perspective, it is eye opening :)
  4. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    love it when my linkedin feed is full of £60,000 a year privately educated students getting tcs👍👍
  5. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    i wrote submission as submisson. I think mine is worse than yours😭
  6. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    tbh you don’t sound crazy, just a very valid reaction to this insane process. I hope you get some clarification via email. I do hate how firms preach about individuality in this process and on their bs corporate marketing material, when in reality they’re looking for cookie-cutter bots who can...
  7. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    does one typo doom you in an app?? stressing so much it wasn’t even noticeable the 5000 times I read it back😭
  8. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    hi everyone. does anyone have any experience with realising that you’ve forgotten to include a module grade on your application form? how do i go about fixing this, deadline passed a week ago…will it look bad if I contact grad rec to let them know about my stupidity
  9. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    so true. praying for us nonetheless!!
  10. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    why do all my apps sound good until the moment after i hit the submit button and suddenly i decide i sounded like a potato in my app
  11. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    woahhh. a very unique combination😯
  12. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    no way the hill dickinson work experience section has a 50 word limit for each entry
  13. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    hey so sorry to hear this🙁when did you complete the test if I may ask!
  14. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    anyone who applied to birketts last year and was passed to next stage, did you have this question: Why Birketts? (150 words), and if you did, how many practice areas or points did you mention? please free to pm me :)
  15. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    at least i know how to schedule a damn meeting after that osborne clarke deductive reasoning test (iykyk)
  16. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    ffs dla piper pfo after passing wg two weeks ago😭
  17. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    I thought it was pretty standard, not on the harder side!
  18. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    was told i passed dla wg on 3 Nov…have not received a phone interview invite yet while others have. will cross it off as a pfo most likely
  19. lawyersum

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

    It is literally impossible to tell how you've done. Just make sure you and your strengths shine through. It's a strange way of assessing people but they have to take some people through to the next stage and it may well be you, so do it!!

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