TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

[bangarangbass39]

Anyone done a Bates Wells AC before? I have mine on Thursday n super nervous.

It’s an individual pres and written task on a commercial task.

Any advice would suffice!

 

[legallyells]

crs rejection post vi

so sorry, what office did you apply for?

 

[saj2002]

so sorry, what office did you apply for?

guildford !

 

[legalxp2]

When a firm calls with an offer for a VS, roughly how long after would they send email confirmation?

 

[James Wakefield]

When a firm calls with an offer for a VS, roughly how long after would they send email confirmation?

Congrats!

For my VS it was two days, but I guess it depends on the size of the intake, and whether the firm is responding to all candidates in one go. So could obviously be longer.

 

[legalxp2]

Congrats!

For my VS it was two days, but I guess it depends on the size of the intake, and whether the firm is responding to all candidates in one go. So could obviously be longer.

thank you so much!

 

[trainee4u]

Three first-stage PFOs so far today: Arnold & Porter, K&L Gates, and Brown Rudnick.

Also a second-stage SHL test from Devonshires. Annoying scheduling etc. task Only got to question 21 of 24.

 

[floral.tcla]

bro is HL just ghosting ppl post-app/do they still have spaces to fill for their summer VS? I'm so on edge🥹

 

[saj2002]

Three first-stage PFOs so far today: Arnold & Porter, K&L Gates, and Brown Rudnick.

Also a second-stage SHL test from Devonshires. Annoying scheduling etc. task Only got to question 21 of 24.

Really sorry for the pfo! when did you hear back from K&L Gates?

 

[User5678]

Another day of no firm getting back to me!!😍

 

[elena11]

Another day of no firm getting back to me!!😍

Same love this for us

 

[tarty23]

Anyone still waiting for Dechert post WE for summer?

 

[trainee4u]

Really sorry for the pfo! when did you hear back from K&L Gates?

1:25pm.

 

[cerulean-tempo]

For anyone that's waiting for an update from CRS:
I've emailed CRS and they've said to me they're currently prioritising reviewing Guildford applications at the moment as the scheme is happening before the London Placement. London Placement candidates can expect an answer in, "the next couple of weeks".

 

[lolololol]

Got a VS offer about 3 weeks ago

hi, can i ask how long after the ac did you hear back?

 

[Legallylaw]

Has anyone heard back from aspiring solicitors for their ethnicity pathway placement scheme with Stephenson Harwood? Their last email said they’ll get back to us by the 7th of this month

I havent yet, did you find anyone who has?

 

[pepsicola96]

Out of curiosity, is anyone planning to apply for non-law related grad jobs/schemes alongside TCs/VSs in the next cycle, or has anybody this cycle?

As a non-law (STEM) student, I've heard it can be very difficult to get paralegal positions and other legal roles without having done the GDL. So while I'm absolutely manifesting a legal career, I am naturally thinking about what else I'd do after graduating. The way I see it my options are:

1) go broke and self fund the GDL,

2) pure gap year, keep working in hospitality (and try to get a paralegal position)

3) in final year apply for some other grad jobs and hopefully secure one.

I guess the main difficulty in 3 is that it makes vacation schemes much more difficult, and just going for interviews/ACs in general I suppose, and might make it seem like I'm not committed to law. But with 1 and 2 I'd just feel so much less secure, if that makes sense. Of course at this point it's all moot, and non-law grad jobs are hardly easy to get anyway! Just curious to see how others have approached the (potentially) unemployed graduate life.

 

[Adithi]

Has anyone gotten a VS offer from Dechert? I’m still waiting after my WE

 

[Chris Brown]

Has anyone heard back from aspiring solicitors for their ethnicity pathway placement scheme with Stephenson Harwood? Their last email said they’ll get back to us by the 7th of this month

I havent yet, did you find anyone who has?

I think AS normally only get back to people that are successful in moving to the next stage of the process. After a while they send out the automated PFO’s to everyone else.

For example, I applied to the AstraZeneca and Covington AS Mentoring Scheme. A lot of people on this forum hadn’t heard back at all but they’d progressed me and others to the VI stage.

If their email said they’d get back to people by the 7th of March, I imagine they’ve already emailed the people moving forward. Perhaps you could send them an email to confirm?​

 

[milawalton]

Travers Smith PFO, Debevoise vac scheme offer 🕺🏽

Congratulations ! when did you hear back from debevoise? Was it an email?