TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Flu1dity]

After 4 cycles, 10 ACs, 3 VS offers, I have my 1 Lewis Silkin TC offer! Thanks TCLA and best wishes to everyone

 

[cooked2000]

Hey everyone,

Perkins Coie just opened up applications for its vacation schemes. It runs in summer, and you can apply here before the 30th April.

Ahead of the deadline, you can join our event with the Perkins Coie team on Thursday at 6pm. Here's the link to register.

rolling or non rolling?

 

[Jaysen]

Hey - let me check with the firm and come back to you.

I can confirm it's open to graduates

 

[Jaysen]

After 4 cycles, 10 ACs, 3 VS offers, I have my 1 Lewis Silkin TC offer! Thanks TCLA and best wishes to everyone

Wow - this is awesome. Well done!!

 

[Jaysen]

rolling or non rolling?

It's non rolling!

 

[Futuretrainee002]

Hey everyone,

Perkins Coie just opened up applications for its vacation schemes. It runs in summer, and you can apply here before the 30th April.

Ahead of the deadline, you can join our event with the Perkins Coie team on Thursday at 6pm. Here's the link to register.

It’s just work experience right? No opportunity to convert to a tc?

 

[summersun]

After 4 cycles, 10 ACs, 3 VS offers, I have my 1 Lewis Silkin TC offer! Thanks TCLA and best wishes to everyone

Congratulations !!!

 

[radicaloptimist]

Hey everyone,

Perkins Coie just opened up applications for its vacation schemes. It runs in summer, and you can apply here before the 30th April.

Ahead of the deadline, you can join our event with the Perkins Coie team on Thursday at 6pm. Here's the link to register.

what are we supposed to say for 'What is your minimum annual salary requirement?'? I've never seen this on an application before. Also, for 'When are you available to start?' is this asking graduation year, or for when we are free over this summer?

 

[Señora Abogada]

Hello! Has anybody heard back from Ropes?

 

[soph107048]

W&C PFO post-FI for Summer. Feeling very demotivated lol. I will not be writing any more applications because I have finals to focus on but my heart is genuinely so exhausted that I feel like self-rusticating in case my burn out affects my final classification.

Sorry to hear that.. did you get a call or email if i may ask?

 

[Jaysen]

It’s just work experience right? No opportunity to convert to a tc?

Let me check!

 

[elle woods]

Sorry to hear that.. did you get a call or email if i may ask?

it will be an email regardless of the result!

 

[Bread]

Hey everyone,

Perkins Coie just opened up applications for its vacation schemes. It runs in summer, and you can apply here before the 30th April.

Ahead of the deadline, you can join our event with the Perkins Coie team on Thursday at 6pm. Here's the link to register.

Hi @Jaysen, just to confirm is this only available to applicants from low-opportunity backgrounds? Saw this on Non-Billable but there’s no mention on the firm’s website

 

[helenaskelton]

how do u kno this?

They sent an email when I applied for their vac scheme being like well assess all outcomes for everything after the 6th April

 

[Jaysen]

It’s just work experience right? No opportunity to convert to a tc?

The firm has said that applicants won't be offered an LBA role at the end. However, those who perform well on the vacation scheme and afterwards apply to the LBA role will be placed in a better position (e.g. previous applicants may have been fast tracked).

 

[Jaysen]

Hi @Jaysen, just to confirm is this only available to applicants from low-opportunity backgrounds? Saw this on Non-Billable but there’s no mention on the firm’s website

I think there's a bit of confusion because there is an AI vacation scheme aimed to help those from low income backgrounds and a separate formal vacation scheme.

This opportunity is about the formal vacation scheme.

 

[BobThebIlly]

Can someone please share the application questions for Baker's DTC? Thanks!

 

[WillYouGiveMeATC]

DWF post-VI anyone for Vacation Scheme!

 

[Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner]

Can someone please share the application questions for Baker's DTC? Thanks!

Discuss something that you have pursued outside of your academic or professional life, why it is important to you and what impact it has had on your personal development. (2000 characters or c300 words).

Identify an industry sector of interest to you and discuss its current challenges or opportunities and how the firm could help a client in this sector navigate these. (2000 characters or c300 words)

Discuss how the role of a commercial lawyer is evolving in today’s business environment. Identify the key skills required and how you have demonstrated these. (2000 characters or c300 words).​

 

[Partcore22]

Has anyone heard from Anthony Collins? They sent an email saying they will review applications and get back to people all last week but didn’t hear anything

yes i received a video interview email