From what I have heard about the sector, I don’t think this is the case. There may be a bit of an increase in applications - this typically happens when other sectors are taking hits (like you see in graduate hiring numbers being cut in financial services/tech etc).
I emailed them last week but I didn’t hear back. Perhaps they didn’t start the recruitment process.
I am sorry to hear that I know how hard you have been working and trust me you are going to get that TCV soon.
I'd echo this. After many interviews, not just law, I have found that the correlation of preparation to success is surprisingly not anywhere near 100%.
Maybe I'm guided by other sectors, but it seems odd that many firms this cycle happened to have amazing people on all their VS that filled all the spots. Or they are being super quiet months after the deadlines, probably thinking about the market and internal strategy.
Normally no. For shipping firms (WFW, HFW etc) the vast majority does, but they still do other work (eg WFW has a real estates disputes team which is not transport connected). I would suggest firms that focus on other sectors are less reliant on that sector, most firms that do energy work do a substantial amount of other work.
Law is probably the most stable of industries for graduate jobs, and in particularly training contract numbers. Numbers have been pretty stable even in the worst of recessions (lowest I have seen in the last 20 years is just under 5,000, highest has been about 6,300).
