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  1. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    I think it’s reasonable to ask them when you might hear back given the period of time you have already been waiting.
  2. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Please f**k off - forum slang for receiving a rejection from an employer
  3. Jessica Booker

    Lateral move

    It most likely will - but if the firm wants to retain talent they will prefer to move you if there is an opportunity rather than losing you altogether. It’s just whether there is an opportunity - you’d need to keep your ears and eyes open to when there could be an opportunity.
  4. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Are you an SQE or LPC Trainee?
  5. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I'd definitely only have them as one entry if you are including them in a work experience section, but I think they are better suited to any careers events sections if there is one, or something like additional information sections. If there is nowhere suitable to list them elsewhere in the...
  6. Jessica Booker

    Mitigating A level circumstances

    You are unlikely to need to provide evidence for this. It is more likely that the firm would contact your school/college to ask them to verify they knew the circumstances happened and for them to provide any insight into the potential impact of your grades (e.g. what they had predicted for you...
  7. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    To me, this would exclude a final year third-year law student unfortunately. Different firms have different criteria, so it is always worthwhile checking as to what each firm's criteria is.
  8. Jessica Booker

    Gibson Dunn 2024

    Although I am happy to review sections of applications on occasion and when time allows, I can’t really do this on a continuous basis, so happy to provide feedback again on this occasion but this will be the last time I can do it. I think you are spending too much of your word count describing...
  9. Jessica Booker

    Gibson Dunn 2024

    The small team is the method, but focus more on the benefit of that method and link it back to why that is important to you.
  10. Jessica Booker

    Gibson Dunn 2024

    it might be worthwhile connecting with Trainees on LinkedIn to get their thoughts.
  11. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Possibly - but I think many firms will have a waiting list for trainees who can start earlier and may just backfill vacancies with those people. I would recommend applying to firms you are interested in even if they are recruiting for 2027 anyway and if you got an offer, you could be on these...
  12. Jessica Booker

    Gibson Dunn 2024

    What do you think could be improved?
  13. Jessica Booker

    Lateral move

    It is difficult to advise on this as there are too many variables, but the biggest of those will be your practice area you qualify into and the type of clients you are working with. It does happen though. You could also consider transferring internally.
  14. Jessica Booker

    Gibson Dunn 2024

    This is better - I would just make your first sentence of your second paragraph into multiple sentences as it is very long at 63 words.
  15. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I would speak to your firm about this, as if you need a visa and can’t use something like a post-study visa, you may have to complete the course outside of the U.K.
  16. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    You will only be able to get a student visa if it is an academic course that provides you with a postgraduate diploma or a masters level course.
  17. Jessica Booker

    GDL vs. No-GDL (College of Legal Practice)

    if your firm thinks it is sufficient, I would expect it to be so. But maybe talk to other people either via your firm or other firms who put trainees through the same course, to get their thoughts on what it was like.
  18. Jessica Booker

    GDL vs. No-GDL (College of Legal Practice)

    Having the GDL won't make you are more employable. Is your firm providing you with a more extended SQE course that would cover additional legal knowledge or do you do exactly the same course as law students? Some firms have a slightly longer SQE course (if only by a matter of weeks) that gives...
  19. Jessica Booker

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I suspect you wouldn't need to cover either in this question, especially if you have had to provide any contextualised recruitment data or answered any social mobility questions. Focus on the question - it wants to you describe how you feel you would benefit from attending the open day. So you...
  20. Jessica Booker

    Gibson Dunn 2024

    Its not that you have to change everything - the reference to client service is fine to use, but just try to then take this a step further by why specifically client service in a legal environment is what interests/motivates you.

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