As well as keeping up with news within the legal profession itself, to demonstrate sound commercial awareness you must also stay up to date with other commercial news. Read this week’s round-up for our choice of some of the week’s commercial stories.  

Whether this is your first application cycle or your fifth, identifying the right law firm for you might be the most important stage in the process.

Does the Companies Bill really offer business a better regulatory framework?

What are the possible commercial and legal implications of large-scale cyber attacks?

This month, love is in the air, yet the inevitable deadlines for training contracts and vacation schemes are fast approaching. Junior lawyers and students often manifest a love-hate relationship with the application process for any role. In this article I hope to provide some reassurance that there are several factors that you can control in that process, without sending chocolates and flowers (save those for your actual loved ones!). 

People who know me often ask how I manage to study for an MSc degree in AI and the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at the same time but still have a decent study-life balance.

How have changing regulatory trends following the global financial crisis affected the private equity industry?

This blog centres around ‘Gillick competency’ – the standard that children must meet in order to be able to make decisions about their health and medical treatment.