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Burning Question - Commercial awareness

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

Gimme a second

Are client secondments for trainee solicitors and junior lawyers becoming more popular?

Previous questions

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Is it possible for UK businesses to profit from the London 2012 Olympics without being official sponsors?

Expert evidence: bolting the floodgates - written by RPC

Will the judicial ruling that expert evidence is a requisite for professional negligence cases curb the number of opportunistic claims?

All change - written by RPC

What are the reasons for the recent employment law reforms and what impact will they have?

Insurance intricacies - written by RPC

How might insurers be affected by the Law Commission's proposals for the reform of insurance law?

Copyright: the next generation - written by RPC

Will the proposals of the Review of Intellectual Property and Growth overcomplicate matters?
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