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27 November 2023 How to Read the Financial Times
Full Disclosure: How to Read the Financial Times By Jaysen Sutton Hi Reader 👋🏽, As an aspiring lawyer, many people recommend reading the Financial Times. But how do you actually read it? Here is what I would do: Open the Financial Times. Scroll down. Pick one business news story...- Jaysen
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27 November 2023 Lawyers Make Money From Crypto
Full Disclosure: Lawyers Make Money From Crypto By Jaysen Sutton Hi Reader 👋🏽, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, paid $4.3 billion in one of the largest fines in the crypto industry. It never fails to surprise me how some of the biggest companies in the world do...- Jaysen
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Read All About It: Commercial Updates
Looking forward to reading your updates both!- Jaysen
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Commercial Awareness 2023/24 Thread
Awesome to see you build on this. The story has been very interesting to follow!- Jaysen
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20 November 2023 How Inflation Impacts Law Firms
Full Disclosure: How Inflation Impacts Law Firms By Jaysen Sutton Hi Reader 👋🏽, Rarely do I open the Financial Times to find a story that isn’t about rising prices, interest rates, or an announcement from the Federal Reserve. BUT inflation is falling. Don’t worry if you have no idea...- Jaysen
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20 November 2023 The Legal Issues of Sam Altman and Open AI
Full Disclosure: The Legal Issues of Sam Altman and Open AI By Jaysen Sutton Hi Reader 👋🏽, OpenAI's decision to fire its CEO shocked the technology industry on Friday. Sam seemed shocked. So did his cofounder. So did Microsoft, which supposedly found out 1 minute before OpenAI announced...- Jaysen
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My journey to a Training Contract
Good luck Jasmine. I look forward to following your journey!- Jaysen
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- Forum: My Training Contract Journey
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Ask Ropes & Gray Anything! Join Maya Shah to learn about applying to a leading transactional law firm
Hi everyone, I'm delighted to welcome Maya Shah, Early Careers Specialist at Ropes & Gray, to the TCLA forum! If you're starting your law firm journey this cycle and would like to learn directly from graduate recruitment, understand what it's like to work for an American firm, and how to stand...- Jaysen
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
Hey everyone, The October to February period is the busiest period in the TCLA forum. I wanted to use this opportunity to flag how the TCLA team can help you if a user is acting inappropriately: Our terms and rules can be found here, which includes any personal attacks on users, from the...- Jaysen
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My Daily Commitment
Congratulations for your interviews and sending both applications off. It sounds like you are very focussed this cycle!- Jaysen
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- Forum: My Training Contract Journey
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Stephenson Harwood VS 2023-2024
Good question! Personally, I'm not sure it's necessary to include the contacts because the goal is to summarise the content of the article.- Jaysen
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Stephenson Harwood VS 2023-2024
We're reviewing applications to SH at the moment - I don't have any information from the firm on this, but I'd be surprised if you had to use the full 600 words. I would suggest this is more 'up to the amount'. Just a note for future applicants: So far, I'd say that strong answers explain the...- Jaysen
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Commercial Awareness 2023/24 Thread
This would be very relevant. It's interesting that CVC is making the decision to IPO (and you can take this in a relevant direction as to what you feel this means for the private equity market).- Jaysen
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My Daily Commitment
This is very clearly explained. Enjoying this thread!- Jaysen
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- Forum: My Training Contract Journey
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Ashurst - Winter Vacation Scheme 2023
In that case, this will be fine as you will write this in your own way. The challenge is when applicants use the same phrasing (which becomes noticeable quickly!). And yes - that would actually be my approach, so I think it sounds like a great answer. There are many ways to answer the...- Jaysen
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Ashurst - Winter Vacation Scheme 2023
Just one thing to flag as more Ashurst applications come in! For the question: 'In 250 words tell us what a commercial lawyer does': I am reading a lot of answers where candidates are mentioning the same thing, along the lines of 'A commercial lawyer can be broken up into a transactional lawyer...- Jaysen
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Ask Willkie Farr & Gallagher Anything!
Welcome back Gemma!- Jaysen
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Ashurst - Winter Vacation Scheme 2023
I would think of the question as an opportunity to focus on you, your noteworthy achievements, skills and motivations. Whether you link your experiences to Ashurst generally depends on the experience. There are some experiences you may want to discuss because it demonstrates what skills you...- Jaysen
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- Forum: Law Firm Deadlines
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