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<blockquote data-quote="Jake Rickman" data-source="post: 146391" data-attributes="member: 8521"><p>Hello there!</p><p></p><p>Some tips to develop your commercial awareness:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">TCLA publishes a weekly newsletter that covers at least two news topics relevant to law firms. When selecting these topics, at least one will be focused on some aspect of law firms as a business (which you can think of as an important subset of commercial awareness). The other is more general. Most recently, we have been looking at the effect of interest rates on banking profits, but other recent topics include M&A deals, private equity activity, insolvencies, and public equity market themes. You may find it helpful to read these once a week. You can look at the past articles here: <a href="https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/forum/ams/authors/jake-rickman.8521/" target="_blank">Previously published articles</a>.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">We are trying to encourage TCLA's community to engage with commercial developments together, rather than as something you do in isolation by yourself. To this end, we strongly encourage you to participate on the forum — asking questions (as Asil did earlier today), bouncing ideas off each other, and discussing strategies for staying engaged with the commercial world. We have also launched a new product for TCLA Gold subscribers to join the community in TCLA's Office Hours, which is a 1hr+ window to join myself and another member of the TCLA community (tonight we are lucky to have [USER=1]@Jaysen[/USER], TCLA's founder) in discussing various commercial news and developments. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">More generally, the more effort you put into your commercial awareness development, the more confident you will become in discussing this. To this end, I would encourage you to hone in one the areas which you find particularly interesting and try and study them in more detail. If you are a student, you should be able to get a free subscription to the Financial Times, which I cannot more strongly recommend. You can then view news articles by topic and get email alerts when new articles are published. Some of the topics that I pay closer attention to than others include:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Markets (so stock markets, bond markets, IPO markets, etc.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Equities (this overlaps with markets more generally)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Law</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aerospace & Defence (this covers all big developments in the aerospace and defence sectors)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Private equity (this looks at the financial performance of the private equity market, as well as big private equity deals)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">M&A (a recent high profile development was Three UK and Vodafone's mergers</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When you come across a concept you don't understand, do some research into it. Investopedia is a decent resource that I use sometimes. Likewise, please share your questions here on the Commercial Awareness forum. I am hardly an expert in any one aspect of the commercial world, but I am happy to try and answer your question and guide you to some further reading. </li> </ul><p>Hope you find that helpful! Just be patient and keep in mind that your commercial awareness does not happen overnight. You have to put in a little bit effort, ideally each day, to stay informed and stay curious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jake Rickman, post: 146391, member: 8521"] Hello there! Some tips to develop your commercial awareness: [LIST] [*]TCLA publishes a weekly newsletter that covers at least two news topics relevant to law firms. When selecting these topics, at least one will be focused on some aspect of law firms as a business (which you can think of as an important subset of commercial awareness). The other is more general. Most recently, we have been looking at the effect of interest rates on banking profits, but other recent topics include M&A deals, private equity activity, insolvencies, and public equity market themes. You may find it helpful to read these once a week. You can look at the past articles here: [URL='https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/forum/ams/authors/jake-rickman.8521/']Previously published articles[/URL]. [*]We are trying to encourage TCLA's community to engage with commercial developments together, rather than as something you do in isolation by yourself. To this end, we strongly encourage you to participate on the forum — asking questions (as Asil did earlier today), bouncing ideas off each other, and discussing strategies for staying engaged with the commercial world. We have also launched a new product for TCLA Gold subscribers to join the community in TCLA's Office Hours, which is a 1hr+ window to join myself and another member of the TCLA community (tonight we are lucky to have [USER=1]@Jaysen[/USER], TCLA's founder) in discussing various commercial news and developments. [*]More generally, the more effort you put into your commercial awareness development, the more confident you will become in discussing this. To this end, I would encourage you to hone in one the areas which you find particularly interesting and try and study them in more detail. If you are a student, you should be able to get a free subscription to the Financial Times, which I cannot more strongly recommend. You can then view news articles by topic and get email alerts when new articles are published. Some of the topics that I pay closer attention to than others include: [LIST] [*]Markets (so stock markets, bond markets, IPO markets, etc.) [*]Equities (this overlaps with markets more generally) [*]Law [*]Aerospace & Defence (this covers all big developments in the aerospace and defence sectors) [*]Private equity (this looks at the financial performance of the private equity market, as well as big private equity deals) [*]M&A (a recent high profile development was Three UK and Vodafone's mergers [/LIST] [*]When you come across a concept you don't understand, do some research into it. Investopedia is a decent resource that I use sometimes. Likewise, please share your questions here on the Commercial Awareness forum. I am hardly an expert in any one aspect of the commercial world, but I am happy to try and answer your question and guide you to some further reading. [/LIST] Hope you find that helpful! Just be patient and keep in mind that your commercial awareness does not happen overnight. You have to put in a little bit effort, ideally each day, to stay informed and stay curious. [/QUOTE]
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