Morning all, I feel like Sidley Austin and Morrison Foerster will get back to us today or at least this week. I hope #desperately we'll hear some positive news.
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26
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Does anyone know when Travers will get back?
from what i have heard, Sidley (at least for the summer VS) will get back to us only in early March - pls correct me if im wrong
I’m not expecting much cos it’s either gna be a PFO post app or post WG. I’m baso looking forward to nothing at this point. It’s a PFO either way…
I’d imagine those who applied for spring for Sidley will hear back earlier. There is 2 stages and they also do a full background check before the vac which takes some time. Given that the spring vac is in April, they should start giving out the first hr interviews soon!
Our coping mechanisms have transcended rejections at this point. You can't reject us because we already rejected ourselves.I’m not expecting much cos it’s either gna be a PFO post app or post WG. I’m baso looking forward to nothing at this point. It’s a PFO either way…
Has anybody gotten rejected yet?
I remember applying for Winter very early on (like September) and heard back almost within like 2 weeks.
I applied for Spring now in early December and yet to hear anything
I think it makes the quantity of applications increased. Let me use a very simple numerical answer (Obviously, there are way more candidates and firms, and people submit way more applications).
Say you have 100 candidates and 20 firms. They can write 5 apps each, so they will submit to the 10 firms they are a best fit for. For simplicity, let's say there is an equal distribution of applications to each firm. This means there are 500 applications for 20 firms, so each firm received 25 applications. They decide to take 5 candidates on, so they have a simple screening process to whittle 25 applications to 5.
With AI speeding up the research writing process, each candidate now decides to submit 20 applications. Each firm suddenly has to review 100 applications each. In addition, because of the economic outlook and AI integration, each firm is only taking 2 applicants. The process to reduce 100 applications to 2 candidates is a whole different challenge; they aren't able to use the same review system anymore.
Now imagine this, but with 5000 applicants, all with strong grades (or mitigating circumstances), 5% need reasonable adjustments (So they have to account for this when choosing the assessment method), and only 5-10 places at the end (varies a lot by firm ik). It's honestly a nightmare for grad recruitment. The good news is that most AI is not very good at writing or research at this stage. The candidates who copy/paste from AI can instantly be rejected. But those who use it roughly take ideas from it without copying output, making it difficult to differentiate from purely human-written applications. And this is where they have problems.
This isn't a law problem. It's a problem for the entire job market.
I was going to apply yesterday, but ended up not applying and submitting an application for Harbottle and Lewis instead. My reason was that on legalcheek the work-life balance was a Cand social life also C - for commercial law. When work-life balance is an A/A* , then usually that is already pretty tough working hours, so C must mean basically killing yourself with work without any sleep 😅.I’m not expecting much cos it’s either gna be a PFO post app or post WG. I’m baso looking forward to nothing at this point. It’s a PFO either way…
Obviously, take legal cheek with a grain of salt, it's not going to be accurate.
anyone heard from mishcon spring??
Anyone else waiting to hear back from HSF K?? It’s been over 3 weeks 😭
I applied for spring, early March is too late for me as an international :'(
Has anyone heard back from AG for their summer VC (London)- post test?
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