Vac schemes: students do everything but legal work

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By Thomas Connelly on

As the summer stints draw to a close, Legal Cheek asks the pivotal question: did anyone do any legal work?

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A spot of tin foil sculpting was high on the agenda at Osborne Clarke

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Not a photocopier in sight at Mayer Brown

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Document proofing was put to one side as Bird & Bird vac schemers came over all artistic

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The team at Freshfields appeared to be on gardening leave

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While those at Clifford Chance simply took in the London sights

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It was vac schemers on ice over at DLA Piper

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Berwin Leighton Paisner’s mob got some hands-on table footie experience

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Slaughter and May’s eager beavers were allowed to draft a complex commercial contract make a salad.

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Herbert Smith Freehills wanted to answer that age-old question: how many vac schemers can you fit in a telephone box?

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Finally, Shearman & Sterling’s cohort discovered that corporate law is a lot like making pasta in an Italian restaurant

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