@Jessica Booker What would you say is the threshold for (if ever) updating a law firm post-application, pre-outcome about a (positive) change in your CV? I applied to a law firm a week ago that is particularly strong in two areas law. Three days after submission, I became Champion Oralist in a large, international moot court competition that relates to these two areas of law. Is there any point in updating them about this? My gut tells me it would frustrate the point of deadlines and the application process were law firms to accept changes post-deadline, but this update is so significant and directly related to a lot of the work this law firm does (and the interest in these areas of law in which I informed of in my application) that it maybe would be worth a shot? Thank you for your help!
i don’t think there is a threshold as such.
There will either be a process where the firm can let you update the form (either by logging back into the application and updating it yourself, or by contacting them) or there won’t be.
If this is something you feel is really important in your application and is going to make it much stronger, then I would email them and ask whether it could be added to your application, but first I would check there is no way for you to update the application yourself. If not, then email them. Keep it super brief though and consider where it would fit into an application, especially if you have already used up word counts in sections you’d want to add it to.
The worst that is going to happen is that they reply back saying they can’t add it to the application where it has been submitted, but you wouldn’t really be in any different a situation that you are now, so I don’t think there is any harm in emailing them, as long as 1) you keep it brief and 2) you double check you can’t add it to your application.