I mean specifically yesterday but tyI think I saw someone ask this yesterday or the day before on this forum and a few people had reacted with ‘✅’ and ‘👍🏽’ so I’m assuming they may have heard back? Best of luck with Debevoise & Plimpton! 🙂
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Register HereI mean specifically yesterday but tyI think I saw someone ask this yesterday or the day before on this forum and a few people had reacted with ‘✅’ and ‘👍🏽’ so I’m assuming they may have heard back? Best of luck with Debevoise & Plimpton! 🙂
When is yours? I thought they had finished their ACs ?Hey! Has anyone got any advice for the SPB AC? I’m really anxious especially about the written exercise and group task. Any advice would be appreciated!! Also I’m really confused about the impact of the current tarriffs being imposed by the US on law firms. If anyone could explain this that would be great![]()
Mine is on 11th. Have you already completed their AC??When is yours? I thought they had finished their ACs ?
Thank you!Personally, I have had a very positive experience with TCLA Premium Gold. I’ve secured 3 VS at MC/Silver Circle firms (this is my first application cycle and those VS offers resulted from my first three ACs), and I genuinely believe that this wouldn’t have been possible without TCLA Premium and advice from the TCLA Community.
In terms of TCLA Premium, I found the Premium database and the courses on case studies/situational judgement (scenario-based) interview questions most helpful, alongside some of the ‘firm profiles’ as well.
The SRA have never taken any action against lawyers who have sold careers advisory services and they have been identifiable. Therefore they are unlikely to take action against someone who isn’t identifiable. If we felt it was a problem, it wouldn’t be something we facilitated anyway.@Jessica Booker Is it safe to sell successful applications to services like TCLA/ Commercial Law Academy/ NextCityLawyer? I'm selling the one whose firm's VS I'm not accepting, if somehow I got caught (even though it's anonymised), could there be any consequences? Would the SRA see it as a problem?
Hey,If I can't find the name of a firm's recruitment, who do I address a cover letter to? Also, I would appreciate if anyone has any tips for drafting a legal cover letter (how to approach it, what kind of questions to asnwer etc) thank you!
what office?Hey! Has anyone got any advice for the SPB AC? I’m really anxious especially about the written exercise and group task. Any advice would be appreciated!! Also I’m really confused about the impact of the current tarriffs being imposed by the US on law firms. If anyone could explain this that would be great![]()
Firstly, to be able to make relevant comparisons between their work you will need to have a high level understanding of what each practice area does. A useful concept here is the transactional/contentious/advisory distinction:Hi Andrei,
How would you advise researching how the legal work done in practice areas is different from one another?
Just to add to Jessica's response, I am also quite certain there is no issue with selling past applications. Written applications are your own work and therefore you have a (at least prima facie) right to do as you wish with them. As compared to information or materials you may have obtained during interviews or a VS, an application cannot be argued to be covered by any kind of confidentiality agreement. The only conceivable angle where the SRA could take issue with this would be around its 0-tolerance for dishonesty policies for character suitability assessments. However, since (i) platforms like the ones you have mentioned only advertise past applications as illustrative examples of what a good application should be (and not as something to copy and paste from); (ii) firms generally have effective automated systems to check plagiarism; (iii) access to past applications is quite widely available in university law society mentorship schemes; and (iv) wanting to access to model applications as a means to review one's own work is a legitimate motivation and stands to improve quality of application, I definitely think selling your applications would not be deemed as 'dishonest'.@Jessica Booker Is it safe to sell successful applications to services like TCLA/ Commercial Law Academy/ NextCityLawyer? I'm selling the one whose firm's VS I'm not accepting, if somehow I got caught (even though it's anonymised), could there be any consequences? Would the SRA see it as a problem?
I was wondering that tooCan I ask about the TCLA Accelerator for Path 1? I am really interested in it but the link on the email takes me straight to the Gold Membership page. How do I join?
It really depends on the context. In what type of setting/assessments would this be?Does anyone know if an elevator pitch is usually around something you are passionate about? Or would it be more likely to be something around the firm? Should I prepare for both circumstances?
I would be grateful for any advice please! @Jessica Booker @Andrei Radu @Ram Sabaratnam @Amma Usman