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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Jones day released a statement about this on their LinkedIn page a while ago so I’d see if you can find that. From what I know they represent the Republican Party and not trump himself? That may have changed or have been different in the past but that was what I got from what they had said
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    An hour?! Jeez Most I’ve done are 15 minutes
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    How technical were the questions? I’m doing mine at the weekend and currently not feeling very confident
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    They’ll send you an email a couple of days before informing you what to expect. They obviously don’t want people to have a lot of time to prepare so it’s not really fair for candidates to share the information among others
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    US Firm Interview Status Tracker

    Sidley have given out VS offers I believe? I haven’t applied there but that’s what I’ve seen on the forum
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Spending ages investing my time and effort for the VS and TC interview to then find out that out of the 20 of us on the scheme there was 1 TC position. Wish I had known before hand but they don’t disclose numbers like that
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Agreed! Wouldn’t advise telling Reddit that though 😂
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    There are actually quite a lot of legal issues. Changes in capital requirements are being brought in by various regulatory departments in the US. Class action lawsuits have been filed by individuals. The questions of legality of stopping trading or selling of specific stocks and the issue of...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Is there any method of allocating people to an AC day? Are more promising candidates given an earlier date? Or is it more likely to be based off of factors such as application date, alphabetical etc
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    A quite basic view point is the trend of consumer patterns. Simply that the high street is dying out. This is shown by the fact online retailers are able to invest in the companies which relied more on their in-person sales
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Brilliant thank you! I wasn’t sure if I should avoid talking about it or just remain impartial
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    What do we think law firms stance will be on the whole GameStop situation? If you are discussing this at an AC is it best to not share any form of political view?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Thanks for your response! I have a few personal experiences which were very difficult to overcome but I’m worried how they would come across since they are mental health related and could show me in a bad light and also they were a few years ago so I am unsure if that would be appropriate?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Hey guys! I’m trying to prepare an answer to ‘when have you shown resilience’ and I’m struggling to come up with anything. Any advice would be really useful!
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    K&E

    What dates has everyone got their ACs for? Mine is on the 4th and I just wanted to gauge how many they are running!
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Your eligibility will depend on if you’re law or non law for quite a few firms
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    2020-21 Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion

    My FF portal still says updated on the day I submitted :(
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    2020-21 Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion

    When does it say your portfolio was updated???
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Have you got any tips for the AC? Desperately trying to prepare :D

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