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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

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sooae

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I hope Debevoise has other invites that they will send later on, because I am actually going to be so sad if I don't get it; because it's the firm I spent the most time on and it's at the top of my list with Gibson :(
I hope so too. I think they have 3 dates for open day from feb -march. Hopefully they only sent the ones for this feb? :/
 

Anonymous3444543

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I think anywhere in the region 500-700 should be fine. I remember in one of Willkie’s virtual events Gemma said someone had wrote 2,000 words in 90 minutes…

Idk how they even managed that given the limited time frame tbh. I think I wrote roughly 600 words. 🥲

I think the word count for previous exercises was about 600 but they changed the written exercise this year so they can’t really be compared. 🙂
2000?? Did they get through??
 
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