TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

[Lord Sumption]

The Court will not hear any of this "rap" nonsense or "mood lifting". Should this abhorrence continue, mark my words, you shall be held in contempt.

I concur.

 

[NotLord Denning]

ah np - I know a guy irl with the same name and exactly the same worldview who writes like you from the same minority background so I got suspicious lmao, would've been funny.

Well it's not that uncommon of a view to have - same name is q a coincidence tho.

 

[CorpLawyer00]

who would perhaps be Macfarlanes competitors?

banking/finance band 1 so someone like travers or ashurst (SC firms basically) and potentially other firms who have private clients ? I think forsters and mischon do.

 

[commerciallawyer2910]

Anyone have any good links for WG practice tests (already done job test prep and CC’s) ?

 

[gw9]

Anyone have any good links for WG practice tests (already done job test prep and CC’s) ?

If you haven't already, it's worth checking with your uni careers service to see if they subscribe to any practice test providers - mine subscribes to Graduates First, for example.

 

[LordDenning]

I concur.

Get out of here, you dissenting rascal.

 

[Zm125]

Bakers VI

Does anyone know the Q's?

 

[marfra]

anybody received an AC invite for addleshaw’s london office?

 

[F99]

Has anyone heard from Bakers post-AC or are we all still waiting and refreshing emails every 2 mins?

Reposting this!

👍 if still waiting
✅ if received positive response
❌ if received PFO

 

[sa.17n]

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[marfra]

I believe that there was at least one AC a week or two ago, I do not know about anymore than that though.

ah cool. cheers!

 

[marfra]

may be somewhat off topic but has anybody read ‘bulls*it jobs’ by the anthropologist david graeber? curious to know if many others pursuing commercial law and undertaking the application process have read it

 

[daisy_yawn]

may be somewhat off topic but has anybody read ‘bulls*it jobs’ by the anthropologist david graeber? curious to know if many others pursuing commercial law and undertaking the application process have read it

My boyfriend's read it and said that lawyers are one of the bullsh*t jobs haha

 

[Lord Sumption]

Get out of here, you dissenting rascal.

Still don't like trial by jury hey old Denning?

 

[aspiring112]

Reposting this!

👍 if still waiting
✅ if received positive response
❌ if received PFO

I had my AC on Tuesday. What they said was we were the last AC for the spring scheme. Grad rec was meeting Wednesday to discuss all the applicants from all the ACs and make their decision. Grad rec also said we would here back Thursday/Friday, latest by next week Tuesday. Still have been refreshing my email every 2 minutes though

 

[marfra]

My boyfriend's read it and said that lawyers are one of the bullsh*t jobs haha

specifically commercial lawyers😂 its a brilliant read, though- id recommend!

 

[Elingcp]

Anything from Cleary post AC?

 

[HopefulFutureTrainee123]

Any thoughts on jobs that are similar to commercial law? Beginning to think of a backup plan in case things don’t work out for me.

 

[F99]

I had my AC on Tuesday. What they said was we were the last AC for the spring scheme. Grad rec was meeting Wednesday to discuss all the applicants from all the ACs and make their decision. Grad rec also said we would here back Thursday/Friday, latest by next week Tuesday. Still have been refreshing my email every 2 minutes though

Thank you, this is really useful! Fingers crossed we all hear tomorrow

 

[antisocial applicant]

may be somewhat off topic but has anybody read ‘bulls*it jobs’ by the anthropologist david graeber? curious to know if many others pursuing commercial law and undertaking the application process have read it

I've not finished it cover to cover yet, but the parts I have read do make me question commercial law as a career for me and the value I feel like I could add if I were to go down that route.

I'm a paralegal in a commercial firm atm and a lot of the work banking & finance and corporate lawyers do, for me personally, just doesn't feel valuable to me despite the amount of zeros the deals are worth.

I wouldn't blanketly call commercial law a bulls*it job by any means, but after aspiring to be a commercial lawyer all throughout university only to find out how dreadfully uninspiring it is in practice - like, I've never heard a solicitor speak about negotiating share purchase agreements with joy or seen anyone express a semblance of passion about drafting a debenture. It also doesn't help that clients are straight up delusional about deadlines and expect responses at antisocial times, which leads to solicitors being constantly stressed.

I think a career will feel like bulls*it job if you're just doing it because you feel like you should (for status & prestiege etc), rather than if you personally get any value out of it.