Helen Hart
Helen was a trainee solicitor at Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy LLP and has ten years’ experience as a commercial lawyer both in-house and at Stevens & Bolton LLP. She has also spent four years working on the PLC Commercial Service at Practical Law Company and now writes for various magazines and websites in the legal sector. Follow Helen on Twitter >>>>
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In this post, I would like to give you some ideas about how voluntary work and extra-curricular activities can boost your CV and help you to demonstrate the essential soft skills and commercial awareness that law firms look for when recruiting. Pro-Bono Legal Projects Some universities and law schools organise pro bono projects. The type…
In my previous post about commercial awareness, I talked about how bar, shop or factory work could help you gain a lot of business knowledge and I gave the example of thinking about a beach café and how the weather affects custom. In this post, I will elaborate on how non-legal work experience can help…
When you start applying for training contracts (or vacation schemes) with commercial law firms, people will tell you that you have to show “commercial awareness”. What is commercial awareness and how do you show that you “have” it? If you do an internet search on “commercial awareness”, you’ll find that different people have different views…