TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[alphabravocharlie]

@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…

 

[ABC234]

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

 

[gmmd1012]

Question-- for an AC at a US law firm in London, for the written exercise, should I use American English (e.g., prioritize) or stick to British English?

 

[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 ❤️

 

[Donna Paulsen]

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 ❤️

Donna has come to motivate:
‘If a person waits for perfect weather, he will never plant his seeds. And if he is afraid that every cloud will bring rain, he will never harvest his crops. You don’t know where the wind will blow.’ (credits to the Bible xx)
You truly never know!! Like you said, do it unmotivated - every step is a step closer in the grand scheme of things x

 

[CupOfTea17]

Hey guys! I have my first AC coming up and one of the tasks is an individual case study presentation
I'm a bit confused over what this might be so I was just wondering if anyone could give me any insight / point me in the direction of where I can find more about this type of exercise. (for context the firm is Mills and Reeve)

 

[qwerty!]

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 ❤️

Donna has come to motivate:
‘If a person waits for perfect weather, he will never plant his seeds. And if he is afraid that every cloud will bring rain, he will never harvest his crops. You don’t know where the wind will blow.’ (credits to the Bible xx)
You truly never know!! Like you said, do it unmotivated - every step is a step closer in the grand scheme of things x

you're both so right (':

 

[elle woods]

Donna has come to motivate:
‘If a person waits for perfect weather, he will never plant his seeds. And if he is afraid that every cloud will bring rain, he will never harvest his crops. You don’t know where the wind will blow.’ (credits to the Bible xx)
You truly never know!! Like you said, do it unmotivated - every step is a step closer in the grand scheme of things x

highlighting this in my Bible asap xx

 

[M85672]

Are WFW and Baker McKenzie DTC rolling?

 

[FutureTraineeMaybe]

highlighting this in my Bible asap xx

Samee

 

[gmmd1012]

im feeling super nervous for the Goodwin AC so if anyone has any tips or insights however general they may be I would really appreciate it

 

[Donna Paulsen]

highlighting this in my Bible asap xx

Samee

Ecclesiastes 11:4-5 darlings xx

 

[Bruce Wayne Attorney at Law]

I don't think there is any firm which doesn't take a written exercise at some point in the recruitment process.

Might be a silly question, but are there any firms that don't ask for a written exercise?

I believe Travers don't have a written exercise.