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Commercial awareness - what's it all about?

Law firms want their lawyers and their trainees to have commercial awareness. This means that you need to know what's going on in the business world. When you become a lawyer, you'll need to know how your client works and thinks in the marketplace.

It's likely that a firm will quiz you in an interview to see how commercially aware you are. So we thought we'd help to get you started. Each week we pose a burning question and ask a real lawyer or trainee to write a short answer.

Click here to find out how to become more commercially aware, or see below for recent Burning Questions.

Question of the Week

Trouble on the high seas: what is the impact of piracy?
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With piracy on the rise, what is the role of shipping lawyers in combating the problems it causes?

Previous Questions

Trading places - written by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP

US trade sanctions: should non-US reinsurers be running scared?

Insurance assurance - written by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP

Professional advisers are now subject to an unprecedented number of claims by businesses and individuals seeking to recover losses, but what are the professional indemnity insurance (PII) implications for solicitors?

Be afraid, be very afraid: in the regulator's cross hairs - written by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP

How is the Financial Services Authority changing its approach to regulation?

Google AdWords: trademark infringement? - written by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP

Should Google's use of trademarks as keywords in its AdWords service amount to trademark infringement?

Two become one - written by Denton Wilde Sapte LLP

Does size matter? Why UK law firms look to merge.