TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Afuturetrainee]

Should we expect a PFO from GD if we haven't heard anything this cycle?

 

[supp…]

Mills & Reeve AC! Got rejected after AC last year, I must rise from it and smash it this time!

Hi, are you able to provide any insight into the AC please? Feel free to message me privately!

 

[Gr33ntea]

So only two days left to hear from Mishcon Spring! Kind of scary!!

Anyyy chance you’ve heard back from Mishcon yet?

 

[alphabravocharlie]

Anyone got any news from R&G AI prompt comp, guessing my prompt was rubbish then

 

[Dannie]

Good morning everyone! Hoping we get good news today and have trust

 

[ellieemasonn05]

Hey, has anyone heard from PMC?

 

[ssch7]

i believe they gave the online test as part of the confirmation email iirc

omg what? i can’t find this email at all..ah well what can you do

 

[LawAspirer]

Anyone heard back from Orrick, Ropes & Gray, Sidley for Spring?

 

[bluesky]

has anyone else not heard from HSFK post SJT benchmark? this is getting really annoying. just send out the PFO, i hate this waiting, it just causes so much anxiety

 

[bunny123]

Does anyone have advice for what I can do?
I have accepted a VS but I also have another AC at a different firm. If I Get the other VS they will clash.

Is it possible that I either ask to do only 2 weeks (for the second firm) or ask to move to their Winter scheme?

I don't want to move my other one (the one I have) to spring because of exams.
Alternatively, I could request to move my confirmed VS to early June but I run the risk of clashing with exams. I also don't want to give the firm any reason to think they aren't my top choice so I don't harm my chances of converting to TC.

Is this a good approach or is there something else I can/should do?

 

[Dogecoin GC]

'Future Trainee Solicitor'
'Future nothing'
(delete as appropriate)

I had both of these typed in my phone.

I was waiting to hear back from a law firm after a bumpy Vac Scheme.

It was sort of obvious it hadn't gone well.

But 'future nothing' if you don't get one of a handful of jobs at a law firm?

Well, yes, that's how it seemed at the time.

Not now of course, but back in January 2021, as had been the case for the preceding three years, I hitched my sense of self-worth to a two letter acronym - TC, or Training Contract, if you prefer.

Now those letters have quite a different meaning:

Take control
Tutoring career
Take care
Tailor-made career

Etc etc.

It's easier to 'make it' in life without a Training Contract than you might thin

 

[lawstudent2]

Mayer brown ac!!
Any advice appreciated

 

[Bread]

Does anyone have advice for what I can do?
I have accepted a VS but I also have another AC at a different firm. If I Get the other VS they will clash.

Is it possible that I either ask to do only 2 weeks (for the second firm) or ask to move to their Winter scheme?

I don't want to move my other one (the one I have) to spring because of exams.
Alternatively, I could request to move my confirmed VS to early June but I run the risk of clashing with exams. I also don't want to give the firm any reason to think they aren't my top choice so I don't harm my chances of converting to TC.

Is this a good approach or is there something else I can/should do?

Given you don’t actually have two vacation schemes yet, this is probably a bridge to cross when (if) you come to it. I’d just focus on doing well in the AC
Best of luck!

 

[Novaa]

'Future Trainee Solicitor'
'Future nothing'
(delete as appropriate)

I had both of these typed in my phone.

I was waiting to hear back from a law firm after a bumpy Vac Scheme.

It was sort of obvious it hadn't gone well.

But 'future nothing' if you don't get one of a handful of jobs at a law firm?

Well, yes, that's how it seemed at the time.

Not now of course, but back in January 2021, as had been the case for the preceding three years, I hitched my sense of self-worth to a two letter acronym - TC, or Training Contract, if you prefer.

Now those letters have quite a different meaning:

Take control
Tutoring career
Take care
Tailor-made career

Etc etc.

It's easier to 'make it' in life without a Training Contract than you might thin

Oh woww what a beautiful read!

TCLA Award for best writer, goes to you!

 

[Dogecoin GC]

Can we assume Willkie rejections now?

 

[nicoledm]

Morgan Lewis TI applied on the deadline

 

[soph107048]

anyone else not receive the w&c captivate assessment. i’ve now received an email from their HR team saying that they can’t continue with my application as i haven’t done the online test…but i was never sent any online test?

was this something you had to do in portal without them letting you know?

it was in the application confirmation email, if u scroll down there's a link to it there saying u had to have completed it within 72 hrs

 

[Novaa]

Okaaay, I’m really annoyed with myself for not converting that Linklaters AC last year, not even because of it being a MC TC but because I’ve just seen their new office….

“Hey Siri, play That Should Be Me by Justin Bieber”

#LoverOfInteriorDesign
#Priorities

 

[TheSlapDotCom]

has anyone else not heard from HSFK post SJT benchmark? this is getting really annoying. just send out the PFO, i hate this waiting, it just causes so much anxiety

yh im in the same boatim thinking we’ll hear back next monday if we’re getting rejected as it seems they always send out pfos on mondays. but i also know theyre still reviewing apps so they havent sent out all ACs yet

 

[Bread]

Also, is it just me or do firms have very subjective definitions of what a “case study interview” is?