Elite Careers StrategyWho Gets In?Research by Elite Careers Strategy

Governed signal Official source

SIG-296: A&O Shearman

A&O Shearman's current official London early careers page states that mitigating circumstances, including disability-related ones, affecting school or university grades are taken into account via a space on the application form.

Observed · London · Early careers - London (all programmes) · School-level grades

Evidence passage recorded against the source

We do take into account mitigating circumstances, including those relating to a disability, which may have affected your grades either at school or university and there is a space on the application form to include these.

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
London
Programme or route
Early careers - London (all programmes)
Category
School-level grades
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/early-careers-london

SRC-118 · retrieved 16 September 2026 · Official first-party page, full Chrome render; passage located as literal normalised substring · source record page · supports 4 signals

  • A&O Shearman London early-careers FAQ on employer AI use, human decisions and one-application-per-cycle rule
  • A&O Shearman official surface; final URL https://careers.aoshearman.com/en/early-careers-london; text SHA-256 8fa422d9a1474cd3a5589474b4570065413b2b95184d2cc20a99656f55cbf1e8

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-296 A&O Shearman, observed 16 September 2026, https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/signals/SIG-296/

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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