City and commercial law firms expect law students to have legal commercial awareness. Having as much legal commercial awareness as possible is critical for your future success at interviews. assessment centres and your career. Legal commercial awareness is (alas!) not something you can learn from ‘just reading the newspapers’.
 
Come along to an introductory in-person presention all about Legal Commercial Awareness. This will give you an insight into working as a lawyer in the dynamic, fast paced international banking/ corporate environment and the importance of legal commercial awareness together with management of legal risk in the commercial world more generally.

The presentation is interactive – you will be participating in a case study group exercise and answering questions. You’ll also find out more about the BIUCAC 2025 Competition and see how you might sign up to take part.

When and where?

Thursday 6 February 2025 | 6pm – 7.20 pm | City Law School Lecture Theatre

Who is running it?

The presentation will be given by Denis Viskovich. Mr Viskovich is a dual qualified Australian and English lawyer with over twenty years of experience working for investment banks and companies in the City of London and Mayfair. He was Head of the DCM Legal Department at a large investment bank – where he was involved with multi-million dollar deals in emerging markets such as Russia , Kazakhstan , Pakistan, and South Africa. He then became the Managing Director of an advisory company in Mayfair.

BIUCAC: The Commercial Awareness Competition

Denis Viskovich is founder of the British & Irish University Commercial Awareness Competition – BIUCAC. The BIUCAC competition is for Non-Russell Group and Irish law students.  During the presentation he will outline the rounds of BIUCAC and how to prepare for the competition so that you could win some of the amazing prizes on offer, including vacation schemes, work experience, internships, insight days, meetings with partners and graduate recruitment at some of the leading law firms and chambers in the world, including:

• A&O Shearman
• Clifford Chance
• Linklaters
• Freshfields
• Ashurst
• White & Case
• Fieldfisher
• Travers Smith
• Latham & Watkins
• Hogan Lovells
• Blackstone Chambers
• 3VB Chambers… and many many more!

The 2024 competition saw sponsorship from 32 law firms, chambers and corporate sponsors and some previous winners of BIUCAC have gained training contracts at sponsor law firms.
 
Denis Viskovich runs Future City Lawyers to teach legal commercial awareness directly to law students through his Introductory Course and the Commercial Awareness Academy.

How do I sign up?

Simply head to the sign up page and Denis will see you on 6th February!