TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

[coldmilc]

Hi, is anyone still waiting on the DLA Piper VI invite? Got informed that I passed the WG benchmark on 28th October and an update email that they were still shortlisting people on November 14th. No updates since then. Should I get in touch with grad rec by now? Thank you!

 

[CG_101]

Hi, is anyone still waiting on the DLA Piper VI invite? Got informed that I passed the WG benchmark on 28th October and an update email that they were still shortlisting people on November 14th. No updates since then. Should I get in touch with grad rec by now? Thank you!

I have not heard anything back [passed WG on Nov 4], but have heard they are just getting round to people who passed at the end of October now. I assume they review applications based on when they received them, so I would assume they just have not got to us yet.

 

[g.cl.2020344]

Any1 else just been sent the Legal High Potential Assessment test for Dentons?

 

[James Wakefield]

Dentons online test invite 😁

 

[seferiades]

Clifford Chance rejection. Very surprised given I went to their open day and did 2 of their forage courses. Hard to understand where you went wrong without feedback.

Same ugh. So disheartening because some of us have done all the generic feedback steps and don't know what went wrong.

 

[m12]

any CC VI invites?

 

[a1024]

Hi! Are all the offers out for Simmons and Simmons? Anyone still waiting to hear back after the test?

 

[ad.]

Dentons online test invite 😁

Congrats! may I ask, when did you apply?

 

[ad.]

Any1 else just been sent the Legal High Potential Assessment test for Dentons?

congrats! I was just wondering when you applied?

 

[James Wakefield]

Congrats! may I ask, when did you apply?

Late October.

 

[desperateTCseeker1998]

any CC VI invites?

Did literally anyone get one? 😂 eases the blow

 

[AlarmedBookkeeper448]

any CC VI invites?

Hello friends I'm back again with my weekly spill:

Mini pupillage has been going really well. I ended my first court shadowing early today because we didn't end up going to trial - the other side settled. But still got to witness some top notch negotiation between my mentor and the opposing counsel. Overall a wonderful experience. The work is so intellectually stimulating.

In other news, got the Clifford Chance VI this morning. Also got the invitation to Meet Cooley December last week. Idk why I forgot to include it in my last week's update. So much is happening. It definitely looks like it will be a busy 3 weeks before Christmas - interviews, open days, minis, sending more apps, writing my dissertation (sometimes I forget that I still have a degree to do!).

the user above got one

 

[g.cl.2020344]

congrats! I was just wondering when you applied?

I applied 1st Oct

 

[hfbjsdhfbhf]

anyone willing to share a successful CC application please? I am willing to share a HL one

 

[Audric_T]

Hey if anyone has passed the DLA A/C and secured a place on the internship wants to reach out - may put together a group so we can interact and speak before the internship and support each other - common goal and all that

 

[Newton]

Clifford Chance rejection. Very surprised given I went to their open day and did 2 of their forage courses. Hard to understand where you went wrong without feedback.

Ouch.... that must have hurt. On the bright side, you have done everything within your power so unlikely you would think ''what if this and that''. Their loss. Keep marching forward.

 

[Tintin06]

Clifford Chance rejection. Very surprised given I went to their open day and did 2 of their forage courses. Hard to understand where you went wrong without feedback.

I don't think it's anything personal. Direct TCs are hard to get. Giving someone a job. After a day of assessing that person. But some firm's VSs are restrictive. I'm not focusing on direct TCs. But you have to sometimes. For firms with limited VS options. It's their loss. You will get something in time. Passing the WG is not easy. And this is practice for it. So it's a useful experience.

 

[MR218]

Is anyone else still waiting on A&O?

 

[NJS]

Not had anywhere near as much success as last cycle, where I got 2 vac schemes, I genuinely feel as if those two that I failed to convert are actually a negative on my applications tbh

 

[user9809]

Not had anywhere near as much success as last cycle, where I got 2 vac schemes, I genuinely feel as if those two that I failed to convert are actually a negative on my applications tbh

sadly I also relate to this. Sighhh!