TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5
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they said they are not permitted to tell exact scores this year but just told me that i passed, if you'd like to find out too
What is the craig with DWF?
I have seen PFO and VI / AC invites but I still haven‘t heard back post app.
I have seen PFO and VI / AC invites but I still haven‘t heard back post app.
I need some advice.
I am an EU national but have a British partner with whom I live in the EU (my boyfriend is from England). I have a very strong CV, multiple years of legal experience, a lot of transactional work, good uni grades, very strong extra curriculars (founded two of the larger student clubs in my uni) and have an LLB and an LLM. I still somehow can’t get past the application stage. I have tweaked, peer reviewed, refined, you name it, but nothing.
This leads me to think that the visa could be the main issue? SO my question is, most law firms ask whether I have the right to work in the UK without restriction, which I currently don’t. My partner is able to sponsor me through the partner visa, if I say yes to the Q, that’s technically not true as we’d only apply for the partner visa and initiate the move to the UK contingent on me getting a TC offer. But if I say no the Q, then oftentimes I have no way of letting them know I could go the route of them not sponsoring me. What would you do?
I am an EU national but have a British partner with whom I live in the EU (my boyfriend is from England). I have a very strong CV, multiple years of legal experience, a lot of transactional work, good uni grades, very strong extra curriculars (founded two of the larger student clubs in my uni) and have an LLB and an LLM. I still somehow can’t get past the application stage. I have tweaked, peer reviewed, refined, you name it, but nothing.
This leads me to think that the visa could be the main issue? SO my question is, most law firms ask whether I have the right to work in the UK without restriction, which I currently don’t. My partner is able to sponsor me through the partner visa, if I say yes to the Q, that’s technically not true as we’d only apply for the partner visa and initiate the move to the UK contingent on me getting a TC offer. But if I say no the Q, then oftentimes I have no way of letting them know I could go the route of them not sponsoring me. What would you do?
say yes and then explain your situation fully in the additional information part
Stephenson Harwood has the following disclaimer on their site "You will also be asked to review some information and provide a short summary answer." but apart from their Q on the three issues impacting law firms and the two Qs on why law and why firm, there is nothing of the kind. Has anyone noticed this or am I missing something?
They previously asked you to summarise an article as part of the application in previous cycles.
I started working on an app last year but didn’t submit it. I think the article was on yachting and you had to summarise its key points.
Now that a lot of people would just use ChatGPT, they’ve removed that question.
indeed. I noticed that they had done this last year but perhaps decided to remove for your reasons
Hi, I received an automated email from them earlier today saying:
All applications are currently being reviewed. We hope to have final outcomes early March.
I even emailed them and no reply lol Links grad rec is asleep
I don’t know for DTC but I suspect it may be automatic for the VS.
I got mine the next morning after I applied, having sent off an application pretty late, so I doubt they read it.
It may technically be a next stage based on some automatic check- e.g., did the applicant meet the minimum grade requirement. But not a next stage in a substantive sense I reckon.
not sure if you are aware, but a partner visa takes typically 12 weeks to process, plus your partner will need to either meet the income + work requirements or have a pile of untouched cash, so from the firm's perspective this is really rather uncertain.
Fair enough, thankfully in a situation where my partner fulfils all the criteria. nonetheless indeed it is a risk for them too.
I (British citizen) have an American partner so I feel your struggle as keeping him here has been a nightmare! Part of the reason I started looking into this career in the first place is because I was doing enough of the legal research with none of the reward, haha.
Anyway, just commenting to say that if your partner qualifies as a sponsor, I wonder why you haven't started that process yet? It's harder if you aren't married but still doable if you have been together long enough. I feel like that would help your application, but of course I don't know anything about you / your situation, and I am not qualified to say anything for certain! But surely worth a try.
Either way, I would tick the 'eligible' box and explain you have a partner who is a British citizen willing and able to sponsor you. I do think that would help! No harm in trying, as it isn't untrue!
Best of luck
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