I have an AC with AG coming up. Any advice/tips or general knowledge about AC's or more specifically the AG one would be support helpful (even what to wear), as this is my first AC and don't know really what to expect! 
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Guys, what are your thoughts on this? (Not trying to stir things up here, I genuinely want to hear thoughts from everyone with a current or future stake in these firms so please keep it friendly hehe)
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Top US firm says GenZ lawyers require 'more handholding' at work - Legal Cheek
Suggestion appeared in a job ad for Gibson Dunn
Guys, what are your thoughts on this? (Not trying to stir things up here, I genuinely want to hear thoughts from the lawyers of the future at these firms so please keep it friendly hehe)
My controversial opinion which I hope doesn’t lead to me getting cancelled on the forum, is that the purpose of a ‘training contract’ is to ‘train’ trainees and get them to a place of being considered competent and capable enough to become NQ junior associates. That is solely the responsibility of the partners and senior associates of a firm like Gibson Dunn. 🥲
If a firm feels that its Gen-Z trainees and junior associates ‘require more handholding’, perhaps that’s an indication of poor training on their end. Are these firms expecting people to know it all and get things done perfectly the first time around? For most people, their training contract is their first time working in a law firm and working in the city. 🥲
If a firm feels that its Gen-Z trainees and junior associates ‘require more handholding’, perhaps that’s an indication of poor training on their end. Are these firms expecting people to know it all and get things done perfectly the first time around? For most people, their training contract is their first time working in a law firm and working in the city. 🥲
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I thought it was a very backwards way to look at things. A better phrasing would be: 'we've realised that we need to do better to train junior lawyers.'
Top US firm says GenZ lawyers require 'more handholding' at work - Legal Cheek
Suggestion appeared in a job ad for Gibson Dunn
Guys, what are your thoughts on this? (Not trying to stir things up here, I genuinely want to hear thoughts from the lawyers of the future at these firms so please keep it friendly hehe)
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Hi @gazdgazd11 I completely empathize with being stressed about written exercises, as I also did not get to do a mock one before my ACs last year. However, I have found that in practice, as long as I could keep myself focused on being very-time efficient, they were not as challenging as I thought.
As for your question about types of written exercises, firstly, there's a variety of different 'email-based' formats - mostly in which a partner/associate asks you to complete a task and you need to respond and complete it on an email. Those include in many cases client letters/memos, but can also include some substantive legal analysis tasks (but where you are given all the legal resources you need) and administrative tasks such as proofreadings and scheduling tasks. Besides these, I have also seen article-based written tasks, which tend to be longer and be more argumentative (and in many ways more alike a university essay).
I do not think you always need an executive summary, and particularly if the answer is quite short or not overly complex. The point of the executive summary is to make your answer more readable by summarizing it at the very beginning. I think you should simply make a judgement call on the day on whether that is necessary or beneficial to include.
Does anyone have any tips on how to stop thinking about an interview after you've done it 😂😂😭 it's on my mind all the time
Anything from MoFo, Winston, Arnold Porter?
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I was literally going to post about this aha. no I haven't I don't want to annoy them 😭
I remember seeing a post a few weeks back on the forum where someone posted that during their AC, grad rec (HL) told them that AC’s were running until like mid March. I guess when that time comes, if there’s no update from HL, then email and ask. 🙂
Anyone knows when we would find out about the outcomes of Willkie Partner interview? after all have taken place?
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