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    Reed Smith Post SJT

    When you say you discussed one issue, did you do just one very specific topic in a large amount of depth, or did you talk about one theme, and point out a few things within that theme that were affecting the legal profession?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    As someone who is impatient to get a job too, something you should consider is just applying for 2023 TCs and just asking if they will let you start sooner. I was speaking to a recruiter at interview about this recently and apparently it's not uncommon for one or two trainees every cycle to want...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I can one up you on that. When the partner asked me why I didn't apply to any US firms (I'd talked about preferring UK firms in my app form) I told him I didn't want to be owned by a firm and wanted to have the time to have a life! I was just totally clueless.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    As I understand it from my (limited) interactions with Forsters' grad rec team, what they've done is just bring the 2022 cycle forward a year. So everyone who is applying for 2022 contracts will apparently be interviewed alongside and assessed at the same time as those looking for 2023. 2023...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I'm still waiting on a response for my Forsters App from last cycle. Not even joking. They rolled it over due to Covid. So expect to wait a while!
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I didn't even apply to any MC firms this year! Fun fact, though. My first ever law job interview was with Slaughter and May which I got by a total fluke through some open day thing and was totally, totally unprepared for. It was a complete wreck. Been avoiding it ever since!
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Oh no don't break s.39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 just for me haha
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Feeling truly blessed and humbled to announce to the TCLA community, my dog and anyone on my LinkedIn network who can still stand me that I have received TC offers from all the MC firms! Just kidding. I got nothing.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I would interpret that as a why law question tbh
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Glad to see I'm not the only one who's submitted a monstrous amount of apps! I'm well on the way to my 29th, although I'm taking a break to do the Reed Smith research questions right now. I'm not usually one for mantras but the way I've dealt with rejection is by remembering that failure is is...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Really? What modules were these for? I am a Bristol law grad and everything I did was rounded up or down to their specified grade boundaries whether or not you wanted it.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I can't even remember if I received an update email or not after passing their online test. But since summer VS ACs are already taking place, I'm now expecting a PFO.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I think we all need to know the context in which 'sexily' would have been used now. You know. For science.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    So have I! I've been waiting for a literal age. There must be a god after all.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    It's not the only crazy one. This was a long time ago now but my older brother also trained as a solicitor and after his TC interviewed for an NQ role with Debevoise & Plimpton. Apparently the partner there described his own firm as a 'cult'. Oof that is brutal. I was thinking more recently...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Oh yep. I can totally see that happening. I think it's a privilege they also extend to their associates as they are rumoured to do a lot of stealth firing.
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    2020-21 Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion

    These particular firms did not offer vacation schemes tbh. But I do appreciate your point. There is next to no point applying to a US firm for a direct TC if it takes 90% of candidates from the Vac Scheme. Just on the odds alone it is wasted time, as you say.
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I never applied but for what it's worth I have an acquaintance who is training there and it is apparently an absolute sweatshop. So it might be positive to view this as a bullet dodged!
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    2020-21 Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion

    I applied for two US firms that do direct TCs this cycle actually. But they aren't mainstream firms and only take 2-4 trainees a year so the chances of success are very very slim.
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    2020-21 Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion

    I'm afraid I don't remember. I think I applied in November and got a response in August. But don't let that dishearten you. I have an acquaintance who is starting her TC there in September who applied in June and was interviewed in July. They do seem to take it quite seriously.

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