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Essential skills for practice – Introduction to Legal Commercial Awareness (Thursday 10 July 2025)

This interactive online classroom including group exercises is aimed at newly qualified and aspiring city lawyers looking to enhance their legal commercial awareness.

City and commercial law firms expect newly qualified and aspiring city lawyers to have a high level of commercial awareness.  Having as much commercial awareness as possible is critical for your future success at interviews, assessment centres and your career. Legal commercial awareness is not something you can learn from just reading the newspapers.

This classroom will provide an introduction to legal commercial awareness and insight into what city and commercial law firms are looking for in candidates. Attendees will be actively engaged in case studies and group exercises.

This online classroom will be held on Thursday 10 July 2025, between 12:00-14:30.

The session will be facilitated by Denis Viskovich, a dual qualified Australian and English lawyer with over twenty years of experience working for investment banks and companies in the City of London. Denis is the founder of the British & Irish University Commercial Awareness Competition ( www.biucac.com ) and Future City Lawyers ( www.futurecitylawyers.com ).

This online classroom is part of our new essential skills for practice programme. The programme will run throughout 2025 and is designed to give you all the skills, knowledge and attributes needed to flourish in your early career, irrespective of where or how you practice. Sign up here to stay informed about how the programme is developing.

Trainee, paralegal and student rate available, please contact us.

What this will cover

This course will cover:

  • an insight into working as a lawyer in the dynamic, fast paced international banking/ corporate environment.
  • the importance of legal commercial awareness together with management of risk in the commercial world more generally.
  • an interactive commercial case study, where you will provide answers and receive honest and direct feedback from the facilitator
Learning outcomes

By the end of this online classroom, you will be able to:

  • learn how to improve your legal commercial awareness
  • understand the level of legal commercial awareness that city law firms expect newly qualified and aspiring city/commercial lawyers to possess
  • understand the importance of knowing your client’s business/ commercial objectives and being able to identify both commercial and legal risks
  • understand the importance of being able to provide advice to clients on how to mitigate/ avoid those commercial and legal risks
How you will learn

This online classroom consists of the following elements:

  • a presentation delivered through interactive teaching and group exercises. Delegates will participate in a commercial case study. (2 hours)
  • Q&A session (30 mins)
Original price was: £44.10.Current price is: £33.60. (ex VAT)

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Format
Online course
Course length
2.5 hours

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