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    How is this work experience section

    Can someone please review my work experiences for the application. There is no word limit. Please be brutally honest! 1-As a client executive intern, I coordinated with the receptionist to manage front-desk operations. I scheduled appointments and assisted with clients’ concerns post-treatment...
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    The dollar-pound rate means the former top paying firms are now the middle

    Does anyone know how us firms do their conversions from dollar to pound given that USD/GBP is at 0.745. Therefore, 225 dollars is now sub 169 pounds. Firms that used to top the market now do not ie Kirkland now pays almost 7k pounds below White & Case. Do you think these US firms, who pay $...
  3. Khushbu

    My vacation scheme journey.

    For the next few weeks, I have certain goals that will help me gain a vac scheme with my desired firm. 1. As a second year law student, I aim at improving my academics. I aim to achieve this by improving my critical thinking. 2. As the application season has started of, I aim at improving my...
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    Cannot access Gold Member's Forum

    @Jaysen I'm getting in touch because I can't access the Gold Member's forum despite my gold membership. I have been contacting the zendesk email for a while now but I haven't had any assistance and my two accounts have not been connected. I created my forum account before acquiring the gold...
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    Sports Law Issues - VS Application Research

    Hi all, I am currently writing an application for a sports law firm VS. The application has a question as follows: "What do you see as the biggest legal issue currently facing sport?" I have done some initial research and come up with issues relating to European sports governance, disputes...
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    Vacation Scheme

    Hi everybody, I am Muhammad Aslah. I had recently scored 24/40 in the Watson Glaser critical thinking test. When converted into percentage it is 60%. But my percentile is only 6% among the other norm group as per the post-test report. I would like to know will there be any chance to be selected...

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