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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

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Tintin06 said:
Holding myself accountable (again):

Willkie Farr & Gallagher ✅📼📝
Covington & Burling ✅
Shearman & Sterling ✅
White & Case ✅📼
Milbank ✅
Ropes & Gray ✅
Arnold & Porter ✅
Sullivan & Cromwell ✅
Latham & Watkins ✅
Kirkland & Ellis ✅
Skadden Arps ✅
Vinson & Elkins ✅
Weil Gotshal & Manges ✅
Akin ✅
Gibson Dunn ✅❌
Goodwin ✅
Cleary Gottlieb ✅
Paul Hastings ✅
Ashurst ✅ 📝❌
Macfarlanes ✅📝
Mayer Brown ✅📝
King & Spalding?
Winston & Strawn?
Morgan Lewis ✅
Fried Frank (1st January)
Orrick ✅
Dechert ✅
Cooley ✅
Morrison Foerster ✅
Slaughter and May ✅❌

✅ = application; 📝 = test/written exercise; 📼 = VI, ❌ = PFO.

Three PFOs, but honestly, the excitement you get even just getting an open-day invite or a VI makes it all worthwhile.
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Amazing! And I agree, when I was applying I used to get so excited for VI or interview invites and it does make it all worthwhile so keep going!
 
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Tintin06 said:
Holding myself accountable (again):

Willkie Farr & Gallagher ✅📼📝
Covington & Burling ✅
Shearman & Sterling ✅
White & Case ✅📼
Milbank ✅
Ropes & Gray ✅
Arnold & Porter ✅
Sullivan & Cromwell ✅
Latham & Watkins ✅
Kirkland & Ellis ✅
Skadden Arps ✅
Vinson & Elkins ✅
Weil Gotshal & Manges ✅
Akin ✅
Gibson Dunn ✅❌
Goodwin ✅
Cleary Gottlieb ✅
Paul Hastings ✅
Ashurst ✅ 📝❌
Macfarlanes ✅📝
Mayer Brown ✅📝
King & Spalding?
Winston & Strawn?
Morgan Lewis ✅
Fried Frank (1st January)
Orrick ✅
Dechert ✅
Cooley ✅
Morrison Foerster ✅
Slaughter and May ✅❌

✅ = application; 📝 = test/written exercise; 📼 = VI, ❌ = PFO.

Three PFOs, but honestly, the excitement you get even just getting an open-day invite or a VI makes it all worthwhile.
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How long do you spend on each application?
Do you have suggestions for balancing quality and volume?
 
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Tintin06 said:
A day. I'd suggest keeping your work experience material handy as well. Be careful though since some forms will allow you to write up to 250 words for work experience and some 150. I'd say make a calendar based on deadlines and your schedule.
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I have a bank of my work experience answers which definitely does help.

It’s the firm specific unique research which I feel takes longer!

Do you have key criteria that you use to compare the firms?
 
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gabrielhart3 said:
'Not required' is a bit vague though? Would grad recruitment see it as a benefit to have a cover letter attached? Unsure on this.
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Sorry it was just my wording that was vague, it is definitely not needed for vac scheme applications, my guess is they have the same format for all their job openings so that is why it is even there.
 
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Mike Wazaoski said:
I have a bank of my work experience answers which definitely does help.

It’s the firm specific unique research which I feel takes longer!

Do you have key criteria that you use to compare the firms?
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I look at practice areas using Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. I prefer Legal 500 because it mentions specific clients as well as practice groups. I also use The Lawyer (mostly pay-walled but the 'What The Lawyer Says' rundowns for each firm are incredibly useful, especially for financials like PEP or revenue growth (e.g. here's one I used for finding out about Sullivan & Cromwell). Legal Cheek and Chambers Student, and Roll on Friday are good. I hope this helps.
 
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Tintin06 said:
Holding myself accountable (again):

Willkie Farr & Gallagher ✅📼📝
Covington & Burling ✅
Shearman & Sterling ✅
White & Case ✅📼
Milbank ✅
Ropes & Gray ✅
Arnold & Porter ✅
Sullivan & Cromwell ✅
Latham & Watkins ✅
Kirkland & Ellis ✅
Skadden Arps ✅
Vinson & Elkins ✅
Weil Gotshal & Manges ✅
Akin ✅
Gibson Dunn ✅❌
Goodwin ✅
Cleary Gottlieb ✅
Paul Hastings ✅
Ashurst ✅ 📝❌
Macfarlanes ✅📝
Mayer Brown ✅📝
King & Spalding?
Winston & Strawn?
Morgan Lewis ✅
Fried Frank (1st January)
Orrick ✅
Dechert ✅
Cooley ✅
Morrison Foerster ✅
Slaughter and May ✅❌

✅ = application; 📝 = test/written exercise; 📼 = VI, ❌ = PFO.

Three PFOs, but honestly, the excitement you get even just getting an open-day invite or a VI makes it all worthwhile.
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You know what, I've been pretty lazy so far despite saying I will apply to as many as I can before December. This is my sign! Absolute legend
 
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@Jessica Booker @axelbeugre and anyone else, I would appreciate your advice! I recently started an in-house paralegal role that has given me a lot of amazing experience. Before this role, I was still very involved in extra-curriculars and some high-street law experience but of course my current daily responsibilities are most relevant to what a trainee might do at a commercial law firm. I am just wondering if, in an application with multiple written questions about my experience / my interest in commercial law / how I have displayed the firm's values etc. I focused solely on my current paralegal experience, is this too much? Should I still try and balance my answers with non-legal work experience in questions that ask how I have displayed the firm's values (as opposed to sticking to examples from the same workplace)? Hope this makes sense, thanks :)
 
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