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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 182528" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi there, and thanks for the questions!For you Why Law question, while I don't think there is a single right way to go about structuring this answer, the approach that made most sense for me was to firstly (though of course, this depends on the word count limit), split my answer between a 'why do I want to be a lawyer' section and a 'why do i want to be a commercial solicitor' question. For both of them, I'd start by firstly stating the more abstract reason for my interest - the aspect or law, or of commerce, that attracted me intellectually. After that, I would go on to discuss a more practical example (using the STAR structure) of when I got to experience the aspects of law/commerce I was attracted by, and how this confirmed my interest. For the career change question, I think the best approach would be to discuss your previous career choices as being motivated by driven by aspects of those industries that are also common to commercial law. For the investment management, you could say what attracted you to it was being involved in work that entails learning about many different business and markets. For the civil service experience, you can say you were motivated to work on a client-facing advisory role. The same would apply for any other work experience - just find what it has in common with the job of a commercial solicitor. The, taking all of that together, you can describe your decision to enter the legal profession as the result of a longer process in which you discovered the different elements that you want to see in your ideal job - and how you eventually realised that it was only corporate law that had all of them/most of them. For the TCLA profile - fortunately, the Davis Polk profile is freely accessible to give you an idea of how we write about law firms. You can find the link to the profile here: <a href="https://classes.thecorporatelawacademy.com/courses/law-firm-profiles/lectures/56022911" target="_blank">https://classes.thecorporatelawacademy.com/courses/law-firm-profiles/lectures/56022911</a>.</blockquote>

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