Demystify commercial awareness and cultivate essential skills for interviews and your future legal practice! Embark on a journey to master commercial awareness – a skill vital for success in the legal field. Whether you’re eyeing commercial law, human rights law, or family law, understanding and applying commercial awareness is key.

Led by Career Consultants, Caroline Berry and Melissa Zad, in collaboration with national full-service law firm Irwin Mitchell, these two online workshops will equip you with the knowledge to confidently pursue training contracts and legal work experience opportunities.

During the two workshops you will;

• Learn why commercial awareness is important in the legal sector
• Establish how commercial awareness is applied in the work of a solicitor, paralegal and other legal roles
• Identify resources and approaches for developing your commercial awareness
• Practice using frameworks to interpret recent news stories and explain the impact on law firms and their clients
• Understand how to answer commercial awareness questions in applications and interviews

Perfect! How do I sign up?

Workshop 1: Mastering Commercial Awareness in Legal Applications is running on Wednesday 12th March (2-3pm). It will be hosted online (via Teams). Sign up to attend.

During this workshop you will;

• Identify resources and approaches for developing your commercial awareness
• Understand how to answer commercial awareness questions in applications and interviews

Workshop 2: Mastering Commercial Awareness in Legal Practice – with Irwin Mitchell is running a week later, on Wednesday 19th March (2-3pm). Again, this will be hosted online (via Teams). Sign up to attend.

The session will be delivered by two solicitors from Irwin Mitchell and you will;

• Learn why commercial awareness is important in the legal sector and how this vital skill is applied in the work of a solicitor
• Practice using SWOT framework to interpret recent news stories and explain the impact on law firms and their clients

These workshops are open to all UG and PG students and you are strongly encouraged to attend both sessions in order to gain a comprehensive understanding and build your confidence. Please ensure you register for the two workshops separately. 

Please email Caroline Berry if you have any questions about the programme.