TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[nonliquetagain]

you get any updates on the AI competition?

yep got an email from them around 3pm

 

[Leader of the Night Watch of the Contractless]

Do we have a list of Direct TCs still open somewhere on TCLA?

 

[aliiiisonxooox]

DAC beachcroft Vi. Apparently 5 questions? That seems like a lot.

I can provide insight into Dentons, dechert, Bird&Bird and PM if anyone could provide some insight about DAC! Are they difficult questions?

 

[badmintonflyinginsect]

Anyone heard from W&C post-VI for Summer?

 

[EfficientBag123]

DAC beachcroft Vi. Apparently 5 questions? That seems like a lot.

I can provide insight into Dentons, dechert, Bird&Bird and PM if anyone could provide some insight about DAC! Are they difficult questions?

I’m curious did u get that email at 2:30am?

 

[marshall]

Does anyone know if Debevoise gives out vacation scheme offers after each AC or after the end of all 3 ACs? The same question with TCs (after each VS or after all 3?) Thank you!

 

[Dogecoin GC]

Does anyone know if Debevoise gives out vacation scheme offers after each AC or after the end of all 3 ACs? The same question with TCs (after each VS or after all 3?) Thank you!

It was much later in 2019.

 

[Eriberrie]

Hiya - congrats!! Did you manage to get any insight into the written exercise, please

Nope, have you seen any?

 

[Rosie_Kitten]

This is gonna be the breakthrough week! I feel it! (Leave me to my copium pls)

 

[anonymous.15]

guys if anyone needs insights from akin, Kirkland and ellis and bird&bird pm I attended their open days.

 

[cooked2000]

@Abbie Whitlock Do you have advice for telephone interviews

 

[Unknowncabbage]

@Abbie Whitlock Do you have advice for telephone interviews

Make sure to smile

 

[jojo23]

Hold on, let me just add my name next to yours on that dotted line.

Yes firm this TC is ours!

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You, me and @Harvey Specter - Presiding Partner turning up to the same ac:

 

[routetotrainingcontract]

Anyone else get a rejection email from Marriott Harrison after they sent an invitation to complete their test? I didn’t even get the opportunity to complete the test and got rejected…

 

[174Tess9y3]

Anyone else get a rejection email from Marriott Harrison after they sent an invitation to complete their test? I didn’t even get the opportunity to complete the test and got rejected…

That’s actually crazy behaviour

 

[aliiiisonxooox]

How would you guys answer the question: how can firms thrive in the current climate?

I want to focus on legal technology and innovation. Is this good? And then give example of what the firm I’m applying to is doing.

 

[aliiiisonxooox]

How would you guys answer the question: how can firms thrive in the current climate?

I want to focus on legal technology and innovation. Is this good? And then give example of what the firm I’m applying to is doing.

@Abbie Whitlock do you have any advice? I really struggle with this question! Thanks

 

[qwerty!]

feeling so sick and i have an AC in 5 days that i can't bring myself to do the work for genuinely feeling so burnt out and unproductive

 

[Zimpakos]

Any updates on Ashurt Summer applied on the deadline so i guess positive no PFO and yet to receive a WE?

 

[FutureTraineeMaybe]

feeling so sick and i have an AC in 5 days that i can't bring myself to do the work for genuinely feeling so burnt out and unproductive

Same! Honestly these rejections have me at a point where I can't even bring myself to prepare cause I think the outcome's gonna be the same.
But as somebody once said "do it tired, do it unmotivated, do it sad" and hopefully, we'll look back one day and think it was all worth it