Everyone talks about the importance of commercial awareness when applying to law firms and in-house legal teams. How can students realistically develop this skill week by week?
A lot of students think commercial awareness means memorising business headlines before an interview or learning complicated financial terms. In reality, employers are usually looking for something much simpler: can you understand what challenges a business or client is facing, and think about how a lawyer would help to solve them?
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