A guide to commercial awareness
What is commercial awareness?
Commercial awareness is one of the key skills that law firms look for in future traineesHow to increase your commercial awareness
Aside from reading the news, there are more interactive ways to build your commercial awarenessHow to show firms you 'think business'
Here's how to demonstrate commercial awareness to law firm recruiters
Harry Clark - LCN's resident commercial awareness blogger
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 litigationYour commercial news round-up
Be sure to check the News every Thursday for this weekly commercial news round-up
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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 UKFour 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 developmentWant to learn more?
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