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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26
- Thread starter Ram Sabaratnam
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That's interesting to know. I guess it partly is subjective and down to the person reading it. I know it has to be addressed to Tara Davidson. Has she spoken at any events where she has given advice on this topic?
The TC offers were made to direct TC applicants or VS candidates? I work full time so was wondering whether it’d be worth making a direct TC app to Gibson Dunn. Do you know whether they recruit solely from the vacation scheme?
Opening the forum after a long time to see how most of the discussion has been about suits or baker mckenzie 😂(I didn’t even apply to bakers)
At the recruitment day she said that they can definitely tell when someone’s researched and when someone has asks chat to give them an answer. From speaking to some of the other guys at the recruitment day, everyone kinda did a different approach. Some did like me and went super specific, others made it broad and talked about cross departmental work etc. as long as you can get across some sort of clear intention, I’d imagine you’d be fine.
In other news. Received Paul Weiss AC for spring. Applied day before deadline. Any insight please PM me. I’ve heard it’s very technical
if someone attended the links AC info session today, could you let me know what was discussed😭
Hi! I did the interview for PW winter vac. IMO it wasn’t any more or less difficult than other acs. I didn’t get any oddball questions and I don’t think they tried to throw me off ever. However, they really really read your application. I mentioned a specific technical term in my application and they came prepared with questions on it! Good luck
Hey! if you get this could you please send to me also - would really appreciate it!
No, from memory they do AC information sessions for a batch of AC dates.
You’ll still hear back from them.
I have a rogue one, the Ace Attorney video game series 😂
Hi @Abbie Whitlock ! Hope you are doing well. I am currently applying for a law firm's training contract, but i wasn't too sure on how should I approach this question. Could you help me give me some guidance on how to approach this question, especially the second part of the question? Should I talk more about what skills did I developed from my interest? If not, what kind of impact I should talk about? )
The question: Tell us about a passion or interest of yours outside of law, and how this impacts you (or others)
)The question: Tell us about a passion or interest of yours outside of law, and how this impacts you (or others)
Hi,
Not sure if this is very helpful but what i did to avoid feeling this was treat the AC as a practice run ANDDD think of it as a hurdle before you get a treat of choice (mine was gelato).
I was so focussed on trying to make the most of the AC AND getting done with it well so I can thoroughly enjoy my gelato that I forgot to compare myself to others there (you best believe I went out in the rain to get that gelato afterwards😂).
Ps. getting done with it well here just means doing what you can with the cards you are dealt. I know you can't always control the outcome but you can control your responses to whatever they throw at you and if you think you did your best, you deserve the GELATO (or your equivalent)
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Although I don't have a TC and quite a few rejected applications, this is the strat I have gone for. I feel like the key is making sure you have some sort of grounding for why that one specific area. (I did a dissertation on proposing a regulatory framework for heritable genome editing so I am leaning into the life sciences sector).
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