Elite Careers StrategyWho Gets In?Research by Elite Careers Strategy

Governed signal Official source

SIG-288: A&O Shearman

A&O Shearman's current official guidance page on using AI responsibly in the application process states that candidates who have used AI in their application or preparation should be ready to discuss this, including the questions they asked AI and how they refined its responses.

Observed · Not stated (firm AI guidance page) · Early careers recruitment · AI policy

Evidence passage recorded against the source

If you've used AI in your application and/or preparations, be ready to discuss this with us. We're interested in the questions you asked AI and how you refined the responses from it.

LimitThe passage is what the research lead recorded against the official page on the observation date. Pages change; check the source and the retrieval date before relying on it.

Scope as recorded

Institution
A&O Shearman
Market
Not stated (firm AI guidance page)
Programme or route
Early careers recruitment
Category
AI policy
Observed
Verification
Verified 16 Sep 2026
Publication ruling
Safe with source
Record status
Active
Corpus layer
Append-only canonical supplement (publication-rulings-supplement-29-2026-09-16.csv)

Official source record

https://careers.aoshearman.com/en/how-to-use-ai-responsibly-application-process

SRC-117 · retrieved 16 September 2026 · Official first-party page, full Chrome render; passage located as literal normalised substring · source record page · supports 3 signals

  • A&O Shearman candidate-facing guidance on responsible AI use in applications
  • A&O Shearman official surface; final URL https://careers.aoshearman.com/en/how-to-use-ai-responsibly-application-process; text SHA-256 b400c4cdc0dd9e014ff52a862893b77c62252cc43921259218e2e206ba907598

LimitOne signal describes one institution, programme, market and date. It is not evidence about other programmes, offices or cycles, and it is not a prevalence estimate.

Cite this object

Who Gets In? (Elite Careers Strategy), SIG-288 A&O Shearman, observed 16 September 2026, https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/signals/SIG-288/

Preserve the institution, programme, geography, observation date and limitation. Do not generalise a single signal to an institution-wide or sector-wide rule.

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