TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[flower1]

Hello, has anyone done the Clifford Chance VI - I tried to find information on their website about format but there's not much

Thank you

 

[ashwright]

Might just be me being technologically inept, but I can't find a 'back' button on the A&O Shearman application portal to look at previous parts of my application? If I press the 'Back' button at the top, it just takes me to the application portal homepage. I can only see 'Save and continue' and 'Save and finish later'...

Any advice before I start re-entering all these entries for a third time? 😵‍💫

 

[law123456789]

I submitted FF test one on Nov 5th and got stage two on Nov 10th, so 5 days between them. Think they send the tests in batches though so it could be more or less time for others.​

Really confused - what are the stages for FF? I've submitted my written app today.. what can I expect?

 

[Superfrozone]

Out of interest how many words did you guys do for your Travers Smith cover letter?

I did close to the max word count

 

[Ben14014]

Hello, has anyone done the Clifford Chance VI - I tried to find information on their website about format but there's not much

Thank you

Have you got an invite yet ? They’re not sent until December

 

[GUt02]

Out of interest how many words did you guys do for your Travers Smith cover letter?

I did about 700ish words

 

[flower1]

Have you got an invite yet ? They’re not sent until December

I haven't - I was just wondering because I was looking through the firm's website and couldn't find anything

 

[Bob142]

I had a DTC interview at Slaughters last week and my application has now changed from 'under consideration' to 'interview confirmed'. My references haven't heard either - should I lose hope

 

[Irishman11]

I did an interview with Slaughters so thought I would be able to get interviews with more firms, but doesn't seem to be working out that way. I think there is a bit of randomness to this whole thing.

 

[Bread]

I had a DTC interview at Slaughters last week and my application has now changed from 'under consideration' to 'interview confirmed'. My references haven't heard either - should I lose hope

I did an interview with Slaughters so thought I would be able to get interviews with more firms, but doesn't seem to be working out that way. I think there is a bit of randomness to this whole thing.

Hi, would you mind sharing when you applied? Thanks

 

[Irishman11]

Hi, would you mind sharing when you applied? Thanks

I did Slaughters in the last cycle, for 2027. I applied like a week before the deadline or something, and did my interview in September. I was waiting like 7 weeks in total.

Edit: 7 weeks after applying until interview.