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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 217581" data-attributes="member: 36777">To add to [USER=32743]@xMontmorency[/USER] 's great answer, I would say the trainee experience at Paul, Weiss is likely to be quite different from that at other US firms with small intakes because of:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">How novel the TC programme is: while it may be a general truth that firms with smaller intakes, and particularly American firms, will generally base their TCs on learning on the job and giving trainees higher responsibility - both in terms of work, and in terms of charting their own paths in the TC - these features are likely to be even more accentuated at Paul, Weiss. At other US firms with small intakes but with an older TC programme, while there will not be a lot of organised training, a general culture around how to teach and work with trainees will have formed over time. This is to say, by repeated experience, lawyers at the firm will get used to interacting with trainees in a common way - although what that particular "way" (in other words, the training culture) may remain difficult to describe precisely. However, at a firm with a very new TC programme, like Paul, Weiss, no such culture will have had time to be formed, and people will likely treat trainees in a similar way as they did in their prior firm. This can lead to both a more varied training experience and also place more responsibility on the trainees themselves to help shape the firm's training culture in a way that best fits their needs. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">How new the teams and (in a broader sense) the firm itself is in London: a similar point to the aforementioned one is that there will likely be no set firm-wide culture by the time trainees start working at Paul, Weiss -  simply because not enough time has passed for all the new teams (many of whom arrived at different times) to have fully integrated. Thus, there will definitely still be a feel of trainees joining a new project at its very beginnings, which should  also lead to them feeling like they are having a bigger impact on the firm. </li> </ol></blockquote>

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