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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pepsicola96" data-source="post: 248133" data-attributes="member: 35776">Can only speak to my vac scheme experience, which wasn't a top US or MC, but still top city firm. The lawyers were definitely there until the AMs, but it was made very clear that we were not expected in the office past 5:30 and it might reflect badly on us if we did.It was framed to us basically like this:1) As much as your supervisor is happy to help and has volunteered for this, you are basically a nuisance to them and a drain on their resources. Everything you do they need to check throughly and often redo, they need to be low key observing you and collating feedback. Doing this 9-5 is different from doing this 9-indefinitely, and you're giving an already busy lawyer another thing to think about2) You'll have been given set tasks and assessments that should be appropriate for the time you have/ a little less than that time. You're welcome to seek out more work or seek out coffee chats when you have spare time, but if you're in the office until 1am we will assume you are disorganised and poor at managing your time.3) It is meant to be an enjoyable experience, there will be organised socials and there will be informal socials, and after doing 8 hours of work they would rather see you enjoying yourself, networking and immersing in the firm culture than doing another 8 hours of work. There will probably be a morning run club, an evening paddle club, one of the inclusion groups might have a social one evening, after work drinks with your team or just other vac schemers. Reach out to the relevant people running these things, explain you're a vac schemes and you'd love to join in. Far more valuable than sitting at your desk.Again, just what we were told at my scheme, I can definitely see some of the bigger US firms valuing that type of work ethic, but overall, I think it's really never necessary to be staying that late.</blockquote>

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