CMS is promoting itself to students by offering them virtual reality helicopter flights.

The firm has been touting VR goggles at campuses around Scotland. Students who take up the invitation to "enter virtual reality with CMS" and "Race with The Modern Law Firm" get to slip on the grad rec team's apparatus and either "soar across London" in a helicopter, or race round a track in a Ferrari. The experience is thought to replicate almost exactly a working day for one of CMS's trainees.


  Alice couldn't believe it, she was suddenly at Slaughter and May instead.

A spokeswoman explained that on the helicopter flight, students will "see many of CMS’ clients, industries and sector groups", while the Ferrari jaunt "introduces CMS’ clients and key matters, where students learn about the landmark case CMS won for Ferrari against McLaren". Neither experience allows students to crash into a wall.

Very much sticking to the CMS partner experience rather than the CMS trainee experience, there is no hungover proofreading simulation or trying-to-get-retained-on-qualification simulation (the firm kept on a sub-par 76% this autumn). It does put branded mouse-mats to shame, however, and makes Linklaters' nightmarish gyroscope look positively Amish.
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