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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

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km_bntn

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Just wanted to ask for Direct TCs, I've heard from a number of law firms at legal cheek events that the threshold is higher in terms of the expectation for legal experience. But how much legal experience is necessary? Outside of volunteering at my uni's legal clinics, I'd say I only have about 6-7 months of legal experience. I'm afraid I don't know if that will be enough...
 
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@Jessica Booker

I am planning to apply to Freshfields. I have completed my LL.M, however, there isn't a specific section in the application to enter this detail. They do ask if I have attended a second university, but I guess this refers to a second undergraduate degree. Can you please clarify ?
 

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Just wanted to ask for Direct TCs, I've heard from a number of law firms at legal cheek events that the threshold is higher in terms of the expectation for legal experience. But how much legal experience is necessary? Outside of volunteering at my uni's legal clinics, I'd say I only have about 6-7 months of legal experience. I'm afraid I don't know if that will be enough...
which law firms said this? I thought a vacation scheme, regardless of what firm it was at was enough?
 

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Just wanted to ask for Direct TCs, I've heard from a number of law firms at legal cheek events that the threshold is higher in terms of the expectation for legal experience. But how much legal experience is necessary? Outside of volunteering at my uni's legal clinics, I'd say I only have about 6-7 months of legal experience. I'm afraid I don't know if that will be enough...
6-7 months will be more than enough. I would say 4 weeks is typically enough (eg two or more vac schemes or a longer placement).
 
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Jessica Booker

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@Jessica Booker

I am planning to apply to Freshfields. I have completed my LL.M, however, there isn't a specific section in the application to enter this detail. They do ask if I have attended a second university, but I guess this refers to a second undergraduate degree. Can you please clarify ?
I would take this as postgraduate. Very few people do two undergraduate degrees.
 

bangarangbass39

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6-7 months will be more than enough. I would say 4 weeks is typically enough (eg two or more vac schemes or a longer placement).
By the end of the summer I would have completed around 4 weeks worth of legal experience. In my application for a direct TC that has already been submitted, I only mentioned my internship which lasted two weeks because the other two experiences had not been completed. Additionally, the form required that I list up to 3 experiences so I did not want to list everything legal. I'm also on the final round of interviews for a politics internship for 6 weeks where a lot of legal experience is on offer.

Would grad rec look at this negatively? Is it worth reaching out and asking if I could add this completed work experience to my application?
 

km_bntn

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which law firms said this? I thought a vacation scheme, regardless of what firm it was at was enough?

I'm not sure, I just attended the Legal Cheek Spring and Winter Fair, and across the board I asked this question to many firms not one in particular, and that was the consensus: Legal experience not necessary for vacation schemes, but for training contracts it will be.
 
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By the end of the summer I would have completed around 4 weeks worth of legal experience. In my application for a direct TC that has already been submitted, I only mentioned my internship which lasted two weeks because the other two experiences had not been completed. Additionally, the form required that I list up to 3 experiences so I did not want to list everything legal. I'm also on the final round of interviews for a politics internship for 6 weeks where a lot of legal experience is on offer.

Would grad rec look at this negatively? Is it worth reaching out and asking if I could add this completed work experience to my application?
It’s likely the firm won’t accept further work experience if they limit the work experience to a set number of entries.
 

AS24

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Morning guys,

Do you know how to amend your undergraduate exams section on the Vantage app? I need to move my exams from year 2 to year 3 because I made a mistake.
Thank you in advance
 

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