Commercial awareness workshops
The leading law firms search for talented students with a comprehensive portfolio of skills, but – above all – they want you to be commercially aware, because lawyers in all sectors of the legal profession need to be commercial in outlook and more skilled than ever before in order to meet the requirements of modern legal practice. Our state-of-the-art commercial awareness workshops are designed by commercial lawyers to meet the realities of today’s challenging legal recruitment market, and equip you with the practical skills to hit the ground running once you commence your training contract or pupillage. Our commercial awareness workshops provide the best possible preparation for life in legal practice and help you to: (i) develop your understanding of law as a business, (ii) learn to think commercially and from the client’s perspective, (iii) evidence your commercial awareness throughout each stage of the training contract / pupillage selection process, and (iv)boost your employability prospects. To see feedback from students who have attended our workshops – click here.
Why should you attend our commercial awareness workshops?
Commercial awareness is frequently highlighted as the key characteristic sought by graduate recruitment, and law firms and chambers often report that a lack of commercial awareness is often the reason for rejecting many otherwise able students. Our workshop seminars address and solve many of the anxieties that many students have when it comes to commercial awareness.
What will you learn? Our commercial awareness workshop seminars provide you the following guidance to help facilitate your personal development.
1. We help you get to grips with commercial awareness by demystifying the concept.
*For our career advice on commercial awareness – click here.
2. We show you how to develop your business acumen through our Commercial Awareness Forum, via our e-learning service on our website. *REGISTER here for FREE access to topical articles and know-how from the legal and commercial environment. We also show you what other sources can boost your commercial awareness, such as keeping up-to-date with current business affairs, research, extra-curricula activities, travel, running your own business and gaining work experience.
3. We provide guidance on how to showcase your commercial awareness at the CV/cover letter and application form stage. We also offer top tips on how to structure and answer those tough competency based questions.
4. Evidencing your commercial awareness during the assessment days; providing practical advice on how to successfully get through group exercises, written exercises, presentations and the corporate case study.
5. Demonstrating your business savvy at interviews with partners at the law firms.
6. The importance of commercial awareness to law firms? We explain why commercial awareness is so pivotal to the functioning needs of a law firm, their clients and for the role of a commercial lawyer.
7. The level of commercial awareness expected of a trainee solicitor? We teach you all you need to know about being a trainee solicitor: Using your commercial awareness to make the right impression with your law firm.
8. You will learn how to advise clients effectively. Clients want pragmatic legal advice, which meets their business needs and concerns and provides a commercial steer and solution to their client’s problem.
Our experience, strengths and expertise
Our commercial awareness workshops will equip you with the perfect stepping stone towards a successful legal career. They are delivered by members of the Ultimate Law Guide team, who are qualified lawyers andthe authors of Ultimate Guide to Training Contract Success, the number one career guide for aspiring lawyers. We have hands-on experience and know the graduate legal recruitment market extremely well; this helps us to provide informed guidance on how you can successfully navigate your way through the training contract or pupillage application process. We have “walked the walk” and can draw on our own personal experiences and first-hand knowledge of the challenging legal recruitment journey to give you a helping hand and boost your employability prospects.
How do I attend? If you would like to attend one of our commercial awareness workshops - please register and e-mail us at info@ultimatelawguide.com.
*To see our time table of commercial awareness workshops – click here.