General Discussion Thread 2020-21

[XARA]

Strong in a sense that you are more likely to do seats there, or strong in a sense of high profile work (or both)?

But either way, yes Slaughters would be a good firm for finance - you may want to look at this:

https://www.chambersstudent.co.uk/slaughter-and-may/true-picture/389/1##true-picture

Thanks a lot, will have a look at that now!

 

[Shalli]

Although this focuses on written case studies, a lot of the advice still applies.

Case study advice

I think you need to think about how you are presenting. Eg can you share you screen or are you just talking to them. If the latter - how can you really structure/order your points to ensure there is a logical structure and flow.

Thank you so much, super helpful!

 

[George Rowe]

Does anyone have any insight into Paul Hastings TC interview?

 

[George Rowe]

Hi all, does an interview guide/list of common questions with example answers exist? Sorry maybe there is on one of the forums on here, but could not find anything, thanks!

 

[Jessica Booker]

Hi all, does an interview guide/list of common questions with example answers exist? Sorry maybe there is on one of the forums on here, but could not find anything, thanks!

not with answers (as that’s not how interview questions work!):

https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/175-training-contract-interview-questions-2/

 

[Deleted member 5185]

Hoping today is the the day Travers Smith put me out of my misery!

 

[EMD]

Hoping today is the the day Travers Smith put me out of my misery!

It’s a bank holiday so we’re unlikely to hear today, but hopefully we will get a response tomorrow!! This cycle has involved a lot of waiting

 

[Jessica Booker]

Hoping today is the the day Travers Smith put me out of my misery!

unlikely to be today where it is a bank holiday.

think next week is far more likely - a lot of people are still on holiday and some schools don’t go back until a week today.

 

[Deleted member 5185]

unlikely to be today where it is a bank holiday.

think next week is far more likely - a lot of people are still on holiday and some schools don’t go back until a week today.

I was so focused on the date I completely forgot it was a bank holiday ! Haha thank you

 

[Deleted member 5185]

It’s a bank holiday so we’re unlikely to hear today, but hopefully we will get a response tomorrow!! This cycle has involved a lot of waiting

That it has! Learning the new meaning of patience in the process, fingers crossed

 

[33c]

Does anyone have any insight into Paul Hastings TC interview?

When did you hear back about Tc interviews?

 

[NLaw18]

Don't think anyone has heard from White & Case

I haven't heard back either!

 

[Dheepa]

Has anyone heard back from Latham & Watkins?

Hey! Latham’s TC offers to vac scheme students expire this Wednesday so I think you can expect to hear after that/next week once they know how many people have turned them down/accepted!

 

[Dheepa]

Thanks for the response. I am really interested in firms with a strong Finance/Banking Practice in particular, and was wondering whether Slaughters was one such firm!

Just to add to this, I think more than Finanace/Banking Slaughters are particularly renowned for their public M&A work. Just google some of the biggest mergers this year and you’ll see they probably hand a hand in most of it!

 

[amb98]

Outside of US firms, which firms are most well known for Private Equity work?

 

[Daniel Boden]

Outside of US firms, which firms are most well known for Private Equity work?

I'd recommend checking out Chambers UK for the rankings of PE transactions/funds/financing and that'll give you a good list of firms

 

[D]

Outside of US firms, which firms are most well known for Private Equity work?

CC/FF.

Kirkland, Latham and Weil are the US firms.

https://chambers.com/guide/uk?publi...eaId=2545&subsectionTypeId=1&locationId=11805

 

[Shalli]

Does anybody know of any practice case studies with written solutions too? I would love to see if I am hitting the relevant points!

 

[Jessica Booker]

Does anybody know of any practice case studies with written solutions too? I would love to see if I am hitting the relevant points!

The way many case studies are designed is that they have so many points that even the best candidate wouldn’t have enough time to cover them all. I wouldn’t fixate too much on whether you are hitting the same points as a written example to a case study exercise as it is likely to be the case that either the mock exercise isn’t that thorough, or that it only highlights some of the points you could pick up.

 

[futuretraineecity]

Hi everyone,
when it comes to explaining the process between choosing firms to apply to in interview, is it fair enough to just say I only applied to firms which I had met so I could really get a feel for the people? Or should it be based more on practices etc.