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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 183157" data-attributes="member: 36777">Unfortunately, I do not think there is an answer to your question that applies across all law firms. Among the firms that recruit on a rolling basis, there are still significant differences in their approach. Some of them, like Jones Day, can sometimes reply to your application in a matter of one or two weeks, whereas others will take a lot longer and reply to most applications only well after the deadline. For the firms in the former category, I would 100% emphasize getting the VS/TC application does as early as possible. For the firms in the latter category, provided that I would still subsequently have sufficient time to write a great VS/TC application, I would consider waiting to attend the open day first. The caveat to that is that I don't think you can do this with a lot of firms, as most of them have deadlines around end of November and December - and you do not want to find yourself in a position where you have to do 10 applications in two weeks just so that you can attend an open days for all. Therefore, I would only take this 'open-day first' approach with a select number of firms I am most interested in (no more than 3-4). I believe this is the only way to avoid making your application schedule administratively unworkable. Regarding how to go about finding out which firms emphasize the rolling application element more, you search for posts made on this form last year by people who applied for that firm. If you click on their profiles and see posts discussing the response time, but also sometimes the date at which they posted about having submitted the application and then the date at which they received an outcome, you should be able to gauge how important it is to send the application as early as possible. This can take you a bit of time, but I can't think of another method. For White & Case, from anecdotal experience, it seemed to me that the firm does not emphasize the rolling element that much - I know people who got a vac scheme despite applying in the last few days.</blockquote>

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