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“What one thing could a would-be lawyer do straight away to improve their commercial awareness?”

How to increase your commercial awareness

Aside from reading the news, there are more interactive ways to build your commercial awareness

How to show firms you 'think business'

Here's how to demonstrate commercial awareness to law firm recruiters

The UK lockdown’s impact on commercial landlords and tenants

How might a landlord take a commercial approach to the issues faced by existing and new commercial tenants during the pandemic?

The business case for sustainability

How can making a business more sustainable be beneficial?

Oil prices and the future of ‘black gold’

Why are oil prices still crucial to the global economy?

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Four common commercial awareness interview questions and how to answer them

As explored in other articles, recruiters will likely seek to directly test your commercial awareness throughout applications and interview stages. Here are four common commercial awareness interview questions and some tips for answering them!

Do all lawyers need to be commercially aware?

There is a great deal of difference in what a criminal barrister does on a day-to-day basis in comparison to a trainee solicitor in a commercial in-house position. Does this mean that every type of lawyer needs to be commercially aware?

Understanding litigation and transactional practice

This article aims to cover an important starting point for developing your internal commercial awareness: namely, the differences in how lawyers assist clients with transactional work and litigation

Your commercial news round-up

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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, RSA, Everyman, climate plan: your commercial news round-up

It’s a busy time of year for everyone: LawCareersNetLIVE is just around the corner, universities have been holding their virtual law fairs and aspiring lawyers have application deadlines for vac schemes or training contracts looming. Developing your commercial awareness for these applications and any interviews you might have will be crucial to your success. Start now by reading this week’s commercial news round-up.

Coronavirus vaccine, Amazon, points-based immigration system, Nestlé, redundancies: your commercial news round-up

As the pandemic continues to thrash local economies, talks of a breakthrough coronavirus vaccine this week offer the world a glimmer of hope. As aspiring lawyers, staying up to date with recent trends affecting the legal and business worlds – much like the covid-19 vaccine – is vital. So, read this week’s commercial news round-up for useful summaries of some of the week’s news, and don’t forget to check out our Commercial Question page for insights from law firms designed to get you thinking about commercial issues.

Bank of England, Amazon shares, Sainsbury’s, John Lewis Partnership, Lloyds, Deliveroo: your commercial news round-up

As the US presidential election continues, with only a few states left to count their votes, and England enters a month-long national lockdown to curb the spread of covid-19 and prevent further deaths, it’s safe to say that it’s been a turbulent week. During a period like this, staying up to date with the latest news can sometimes feel overwhelming. That’s why every week LawCareers.Net puts together a round-up of some of the week’s most interesting commercial news stories to help you get back up to speed.

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Five easy and practical ways to boost your commercial awareness

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Commercial Questions

The Commercial Question is a weekly article written by a leading firm designed to get you thinking about commercial issues.

Josh Richman - Commercial awareness: how to show firms you ‘think business’

Commercial awareness is understanding that being a lawyer involves much more than just knowing the law – you have to know your clients’ businesses and the sectors they operate in to be able to help them achieve their commercial aims.

What’s happening with 2020-21 pupillage applications, mini-pupillages and Bar course scholarships?

The pandemic has caused disruption across the barristers’ profession, but students should still apply for pupillages and mini-pupillages this winter. Here is the latest information for aspiring barristers.

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Legal tech innovation hubs: a rundown

From Allen & Overy’s Fuse to Slaughter and May’s Collaborate to Dentons’ Nextlaw Labs, innovation hubs for legal tech seem to have become something of a feature of the corporate law landscape in the UK

Four websites to help boost your commercial awareness

Here are four sites that can help you with this in an easier way than endlessly scrolling through the Financial Times’ website the night before your assessment centre.

Flexibility within the legal market

The legal market as a whole is becoming increasingly more flexible and in this post, I will examine three of the main drivers of this development

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Commercial Question

Covid-19: a gift for civil fraud lawyers?

What impact might covid-19 have on civil fraud law?

Commercial Question

The UK lockdown’s impact on commercial landlords and tenants

How might a landlord take a commercial approach to the issues faced by existing and new commercial tenants during the pandemic?

Commercial Question

Coronavirus and company dividends

What are the practicalities of declaring final dividends in light of covid-19 and what can companies do if they no longer consider that the payment of a dividend is appropriate?

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