Firms you can apply to multiple times in the same recruitment cycle

[Adrian_S]

@GXA123 raised an important question: are there any firms that you can apply to for a training contract in the same cycle that you've made an unsuccessful vacation scheme application? i hope the following list offers some help. take it with a heap of salt! will keep looking for better information, send some emails out, and update the list accordingly.

may the odds be ever in your favour!

Firms which do accept TC applications in the same cycle if your VS application was unsuccessful

NB: Some of these firms stress that, while a direct training contract route technically exists, you are unlikely to be successful unless there is substantial improvement to your more recent application.

Boodle Hatfield
Burges Salmon
Farrer & Co
Linklaters
Macfarlanes
Morgan Lewis
Norton Rose Fulbright
Slaughter & May
Sullivan & Cromwell
Travers Smith
White & Case
Withers

Firms which do not accept TC applications in the same cycle as an unsuccessful VS application

NB: For some of these firms, this is because they have no direct route to a training contract.

Addleshaw Goddard
Allen & Overy
Ashurst
Baker McKenzie
Bird & Bird
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Clifford Chance
Clyde & Co
CMS
Covington & Burling
Davis Polk & Wardell
Dechert
DLA Piper
Eversheds Sutherland
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gateley
Gowling WLG
Herbert Smith Freehills
Hogan Lovells
Irwin Mitchell
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Mills & Reeve
Mishcon de Reya
Reed Smith
Ropes & Gray
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley Austin
Simmons & Simmons
Skadden
Stephenson Harwood
Taylor Wessing
Wilkie Farr & Gallagher

 

[GXA123]

@GXA123 raised an important question: are there any firms that you can apply to for a training contract in the same cycle that you've made an unsuccessful vacation scheme application? i hope the following list offers some help. take it with a heap of salt! will keep looking for better information, send a bunch of emails out, and update the list accordingly

may the odds be ever in your favour!

firms which do accept TC applications in the same cycle if your VS application was unsuccessful
Boodle Hatfield
Farrer & Co
Linklaters
Macfarlanes
Norton Rose Fulbright
Slaughter & May
Travers Smith

firms which do not accept TC applications in the same cycle as an unsuccessful VS application
Addleshaw Goddard
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Bird & Bird
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Clyde & Co
CMS
Davis Polk & Wardell
Dechert
DLA Piper
Gateley
Gowling WLG
Herbert Smith Freehills
Hogan Lovells
Irwin Mitchell
Mishcon de Reya
Reed Smith
Ropes & Gray
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley Austin
Stephenson Harwood

unclear for now [Will update accordingly]
Dentons
Vinson & Elkins
Weil, Gotshal, & Manges

Thank you so much for this, I will also keep adding to it. Mills & Reeve doesn't let u apply twice I emailed this morning!

 

[George Maxwell]

@Adrian_S awesome initiative. Thank you for this! 💪

 

[James Carrabino]

This is an excellent post @Adrian_S! Ashurst, White & Case and Sullivan & Cromwell let you apply twice to my knowledge

 

[Adrian_S]

Thanks! @James Carrabino, I’ve emailed grad recruitment at those firms but haven’t heard back. I’m sure you’re right, so I’ll just go ahead and add them

 

[GXA123]

Withers allows you to apply post rejection for VS!

 

[IT7]

This is an excellent post @Adrian_S! Ashurst, White & Case and Sullivan & Cromwell let you apply twice to my knowledge

Hi James, does White & Case allow you to apply twice overall across all cycles or twice within one cycle?

 

[IT7]

Hi, I had an update to this list. As per my last communication with Ashurst, they do not allow training contract applications in the same cycle as a VS application.

I'd asked them after an unsuccessful Vacation Scheme AC, so I'm not sure if it also holds true for applications unsuccessful at the initial stage, but I think the firm policy would be similar for both.

 

[GXA123]

Hi, I had an update to this list. As per my last communication with Ashurst, they do not allow training contract applications in the same cycle as a VS application.

I'd asked them after an unsuccessful Vacation Scheme AC, so I'm not sure if it also holds true for applications unsuccessful at the initial stage, but I think the firm policy would be similar for both.

Yes you are correct! Ashurst doesn't let u apply twice even if its after the first stage

 

[James Carrabino]

Hi, I had an update to this list. As per my last communication with Ashurst, they do not allow training contract applications in the same cycle as a VS application.

I'd asked them after an unsuccessful Vacation Scheme AC, so I'm not sure if it also holds true for applications unsuccessful at the initial stage, but I think the firm policy would be similar for both.

Yes you are correct! Ashurst doesn't let u apply twice even if its after the first stage

This must be different from last year, because I was rejected post-app for VS but progressed to an interview for direct TC in the same cycle!

 

[M&Amakesmyday]

If I got a video interview invite from White and Case and got rejected after, is it possible to be successful in a direct TC application in the same cycle?

 

[Alison C]

@GXA123 raised an important question: are there any firms that you can apply to for a training contract in the same cycle that you've made an unsuccessful vacation scheme application? i hope the following list offers some help. take it with a heap of salt! will keep looking for better information, send some emails out, and update the list accordingly.

may the odds be ever in your favour!

Firms which do accept TC applications in the same cycle if your VS application was unsuccessful

NB: Some of these firms stress that, while a direct training contract route technically exists, you are unlikely to be successful unless there is substantial improvement to your more recent application.

Boodle Hatfield
Burges Salmon
Farrer & Co
Linklaters
Macfarlanes
Norton Rose Fulbright
Slaughter & May
Sullivan & Cromwell
Travers Smith
White & Case
Withers

Firms which do not accept TC applications in the same cycle as an unsuccessful VS application

NB: For some of these firms, this is because they have no direct route to a training contract.

Addleshaw Goddard
Allen & Overy
Ashurst
Baker McKenzie
Bird & Bird
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Clifford Chance
Clyde & Co
CMS
Covington & Burling
Davis Polk & Wardell
Dechert
DLA Piper
Eversheds Sutherland
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gateley
Gowling WLG
Herbert Smith Freehills
Hogan Lovells
Irwin Mitchell
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Mills & Reeve
Mishcon de Reya
Reed Smith
Ropes & Gray
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley Austin
Simmons & Simmons
Skadden
Stephenson Harwood
Taylor Wessing
Wilkie Farr & Gallagher

Covington now do accept direct TC in the same cycle.

 

[IT7]

Hi James, does White & Case allow you to apply twice overall across all cycles or twice within one cycle?

I was wondering if there is any update on this. I'd emailed Grad Recruitment about this a while ago too, but they didn't respond. Does White & Case allow you apply twice within one cycle? Or twice overall across all cycles?

@George Maxwell @Jessica Booker @James Carrabino do you perhaps have any idea about this? If anyone else in the TCLA community could help, that would be great too!

 

[Jessica Booker]

I was wondering if there is any update on this. I'd emailed Grad Recruitment about this a while ago too, but they didn't respond. Does White & Case allow you apply twice within one cycle? Or twice overall across all cycles?

@George Maxwell @Jessica Booker @James Carrabino do you perhaps have any idea about this? If anyone else in the TCLA community could help, that would be great too!

Unfortunately, I don’t know the specifics of individual firm’s policies.

 

[jomar]

Just adding to this @Adrian_S

Morgan Lewis let's you reapply - on their form it says:

You should only apply for one position at a time. If you wish to apply for both the summer scheme and training contract, please wait until you have been notified of the outcome of your summer scheme application before submitting an application for a training contract at the firm.