Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

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Ratish S

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I have an AC for summer on 13th February. I called them up before selecting to ask if it's gonna be a disadvantage as there were also options for 4th and 6th. They said that they're gonna be holding ACs throughout March.
 
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Daniel Boden

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    Anyone heard from:

    Freshfields TC (following a portal update)
    Sidley Austin - Spring VS
    Ropes & Gray - Spring VS
    Dechert - Spring VS
    Slaughter and May TC
    Milbank - Summer VS
    Cleary - Spring VS
    Freshfields - no
    Ropes & Gray - no (summer VS but their ACs are in March so I'll imagine they'll start letting people know fairly soon)
    Dechert - no (summer VS: their GradRec team seems a bit of a joke this year - 4 calls and 4 emails later I still haven't had a reply or spoken to anyone!)
    Milbank - no
     
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    Natalie Black

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    Question to everyone

    After an interview, would you send a letter or email to your interviewers to thank them?

    Some people recommend it (good manners, respect etc.), but on the flip side it may not go down well with every firm (looks beggy, artificial)?

    What's your thoughts?
    No, just wait for 3-4 weeks
     

    Natalie Black

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    Freshfields - no
    Ropes & Gray - no (summer VS but their ACs are in March so I'll imagine they'll start letting people know fairly soon)
    Dechert - no (summer VS: their GradRec team seems a bit of a joke this year - 4 calls and 4 emails later I still haven't had a reply or spoken to anyone!)
    Milbank - no

    Milbank don't recruit on a rolling basis. So you wont hear back for about 2-3 weeks
     
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    SLKEJRWOI97

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    Freshfields - no
    Ropes & Gray - no (summer VS but their ACs are in March so I'll imagine they'll start letting people know fairly soon)
    Dechert - no (summer VS: their GradRec team seems a bit of a joke this year - 4 calls and 4 emails later I still haven't had a reply or spoken to anyone!)
    Milbank - no

    Thanks Daniel! :)
     
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    SLKEJRWOI97

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    Question to everyone

    After an interview, would you send a letter or email to your interviewers to thank them?

    Some people recommend it (good manners, respect etc.), but on the flip side it may not go down well with every firm (looks beggy, artificial)?

    What's your thoughts?

    In one interview I had, I really got along with the Associate. We had a lot of common ground e.g. coming from the same county, going to the same places, etc so I sent a thank you e-mail.

    If you feel like you really built a rapport then I don't see why not. But, I don't think sending or not sending an e-mail will influence your application in anyway. You'd also wanna make sure that any e-mail you do send is short and sweet.

    Good luck! :)
     

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