🚨 Reed Smith has just announced its Direct Training Contract route!
The deadline is 20th June.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gottagetthroughthis101" data-source="post: 212404" data-attributes="member: 40779">I thought I would join everyone else in documenting my training contract journey. I guess this is more of a place for me to rant and keep myself accountable especially since the last few years of law school and trying to get into a legal career has been painful.I can't say that I feel like a particularly standout candidate and I don't really know where to go from here. I have fairly average grades, 2:1 standard but nothing special or exceptional. I I've filled my life at uni with extra-curriculars and I have tried my hardest to make a standout application to firms but have been rather unsuccessful. I completed 1 vacation scheme secured as part of a mentoring scheme but didn't manage to turn that into a TC.  I also had two vacation scheme interviews but didn't make it through to the next stage. Technically, this is my 3rd application cycle but the first and second time around, I only applied to a few firms and I cant say they were particularly tailored applications.My difficulty is, is that from first year onwards I set myself up for the Bar, so I have done a fair amount of mini-pupillages and my extra curriculars are very mooting and Bar soc centred. I am now graduating this year, and feel completely lost. I don't feel like I'm good enough for the Bar academically but I also don't feel like I'm good enough to get a TC either because I don't have many vacation schemes. I have worked since I was 16 so I have a fair bit of work experience especially more recently in corporate environments.Anyway enough of the sob story- these are the firms I am hoping to apply to for direct TCs in the remaining time I have. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">BCLP</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dentons</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Haynes Boone</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reed Smith</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Burges Salmon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watson Farley & Williams</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Morgan Lewis</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Paul Hastings</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sullivan and Cromwell (Maybe)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Macfarlanes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">White & Case</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">HFW</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stephenson Harwood</li> </ul>Applied already to <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kingsley Napley - PFO post-second stage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">GLD - PFO</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wedlake Bell - Waiting for a response,</li> </ul></blockquote>

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