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    a confused law student's TC journey :)

    Thank you! I've applied for the HSF and Allen & Overy Vacation Schemes. Failed the SJT for HSF so that was really annoying :( About to start the online assessment for the A&O application, but guarantee I will fail it. I am really bad at these sorts of things :/
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    confused to commercially aware! trying to develop my commercial awareness

    That's such a great help! I think it is really going to take a while for me to get the hang of this - I just don't know how I am going to come up with it all!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    That makes sense, thank you!
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    confused to commercially aware! trying to develop my commercial awareness

    That definitely makes it a lot clearer! Thanks so much! So I couldn't think of anything as to how law firms would advise clients in relation to the Netflix story I mentioned above. But I did read an article a few weeks ago about Shutterstock's partnership with OpenAI to use artificial...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Hi everyone I am wondering if it would be easier to get into a non-London firm given that it might be less competitive? Ideally, i really want to work in London. But i might also apply for firms in Leeds/Manchester because i think it might be easier to get a job? but i do really want to work in...
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    confused to commercially aware! trying to develop my commercial awareness

    13/11/2022 The most interesting story I read today was the chaos which arose after Twitter introduced the ability to pay for a blue tick. The blue tick on Twitter identifies whether an account is the real person or not. It used to be where only a select amount of people had them, like...
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    confused to commercially aware! trying to develop my commercial awareness

    Hi @AvniD ! Thank you for the response!! This aspect of commercial awareness is something I REALLY struggle with - so I'm wondering if you could give me a bit of an example as what a law firm would do? I am absolutely clueless at this point :(
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    Hey! Thanks so much for this. Youtube primetime I don't really see YouTube having a huge impact on Netflix at least at the moment. While Netflix is facing a decline, it is still the most popular streaming service in the UK. Netflix is also very well established in this market, so I think it...
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    a confused law student's TC journey :)

    Accepted to the Bristows IP workshop :)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Wow that's so helpful! Thank you so much!!
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    confused to commercially aware! trying to develop my commercial awareness

    Started this thread to keep a record of some commercial news stories I read and also hopefully get some discussion going about them to help develop my commercial awareness! Commercial awareness is a completely new thing to me, and is definitely my biggest weakness in terms of these law firm...
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    a confused law student's TC journey :)

    That's such helpful advice, thank you so much!
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    a confused law student's TC journey :)

    Having just attended a commercial awareness workshop, I realise I need to up my game a bit 🙃 So now my plan is: - Listen to a commercial awareness podcast every morning - Write my own weekly round up of a few stories I found interesting - Discuss them with friends and family (or my cats if no...
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    a confused law student's TC journey :)

    Oh good luck with your TW application! I don't really have any advice since that was literally my first application ever so it is probably not any good haha Wishing you the best in your journey!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Got an interview invite for the Bristows IP Workshop!! Any tips would be much appreciated. This will be my first ever law firm interview 😬😬
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    a confused law student's TC journey :)

    Got an interview for the Bristows IP Workshop!
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    a confused law student's TC journey :)

    I am a final year law student who has, perhaps rather surprisingly, only just decided they want to be a commercial solicitor. Because of that, I am trying to do as much as I can to secure a TC for when I graduate. In the past month: I have applied for the Taylor Wessing Summer Vacation Scheme...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    For the question "Introduce us to a topic you know about and explain why it interests you?" could I write about a film? I really want to write about the film 'Heathers' since I could literally talk about it for hours, but I don't know if it is what they are looking for. It is also a bit of a...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Wow reading this has made me feel A LOT better. THANK YOU !!!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Thank you so much, that's so helpful 🙌

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