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TheSaulGoodman

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  • Dec 3, 2025
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    Keeping track of the applications I've made so I can stop staring at my excel sheet:

    Rejections

    Travers Smith DTC post app
    Freshfields DTC post stage 1
    A&O post SJT/VI
    Weil post SJT/VI
    Clifford Chance post passing WG

    Progress updates

    Linklaters DTC - Completed auto assessment in November
    Goodwin Procter DTC - completed VI Jan 7th
    Millbank Lev/fin VS Spring - completed stage 1 online assessment Dec 30th
    Clyde & Co VS Spring - completed auto assessment Jan 10th
    Osborne Clarke DTC - completed auto assessment Jan 5th
    White & Case VS Spring - completed auto assessment Dec 30th
    Addleshaw Goddard VS Summer - completed auto assessment Dec 29th
    Burges Salmon VS Edinburgh - completed auto assessment Jan 5th

    No update since application

    HFW DTC - applied in October
    Hogan Lovells DTC- applied in October
    WFW DTC - applied in December
    Mayer Brown DTC - applied in December
    Stephenson Harwood DTC - applied in December
    Akin VS Spring - applied Dec 31
    Dechert VS Spring - applied Dec 31
    Cooley VS Spring - applied December

    Firms to still apply to*

    Lewis Silkin DTC
    Gibson Dunn VS Spring
    Hill Dickinson DTC
    Farrer & Co DTC
    Hugh James VS Summer
    Marriot Harrison VS Summer
    Russel Cooke VS Summer
    Shoosmiths VS Spring
    Wedlake Bell DTC
    Withers DTC
    Arnold Porter DTC
    Broadfield DTC
    Kingsley Napley DTC
    Eversheds Sutherland DTC Edinburgh
    BCLP DTC

    *This is my reserve list as I know this is a lot of apps to do and I have already submitted quite a few - taking a 'better safe than sorry' approach this cycle + hopefully it'll be my last!
     
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