Litigation partner Maxine Davies of Addleshaw Goddard LLP explains how you can use your existing non-legal work experience to demonstrate commercial awareness, but also why legal work experience remains important.

In this LawCareers.Net masterclass, sponsored by Clyde & Co LLP, Dentons, Michelmores LLP and White & Case LLP, find out from our panel of experts exactly what commercial awareness is, as well as how you can develop it and, crucially, demonstrate it in law firm applications.

In this LawCareers.Net masterclass, sponsored by Addleshaw Goddard, Lewis Silkin, Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP and White & Case LLP, find out from our panel of experts exactly what commercial awareness is, as well as how you can develop it and, crucially, demonstrate it in law firm applications.

Innovative law firm Dentons has announced that it is modernising its training contract programme to focus on project management and technology.

The annual LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards seek to celebrate the hard work of student law societies at universities all over the UK. UCL Law Society explain how they won 'Best Society for commercial awareness', sponsored by Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (London) LLP, at the 2025 Student Law Society Awards.

Whether it is EU-originated, domestic or a self-imposed industry code of conduct, regulation affects all aspects of civil life and commercial activity.

How will the Employment Rights Act's unfair dismissal reforms impact employers? 

LawCareers.Net's annual reader survey has left one aspiring solicitor £1,000 richer.

Any government decision to impose further increases to civil court fees would result in far more money lost in tax revenues generated by legal work than would be raised by court fees, according to City solicitors and barristers. 

Bishop & Sewell and Monro Wright & Wasbrough have announced their merger, as part of Bishop & Sewell’s planned expansion strategy.

Leading commercial firm DAC Beachcroft has launched an “in-house chambers”, with plans for it to become “the biggest model of its kind” by the end of the year, according to Sahar Farooqi, one of the two barrister partners leading the project.