I’m absolutely stumped on how to answer the ashurst summer vac scheme question “please summarise for us what a commercial lawyer does”.
Should I give a general overview? Or touch more upon one of their practice areas and what a lawyer may do within this area?
I think I may give a general overview and then focus upon the clients/law firms actually being a business in and of itself?
Hi
@Hele25,
This is a great question. I think, if you are still struggling with this, it might be a good idea to start a new thread, or to add to an existing thread related specifically to Ashurst/application questions. I think you will get a better response that way! Posts on this thread have a tendency to get swallowed up/lost because of the volume of posts.
For what it is worth, I think that your approach sounds like a sensible one.
Do let me know how it goes. Here to answer any questions in the meantime! 🚀
Just wanted to throw out for people looking to boost commercial awareness that I recently subscribed to Matt Levine's free 'Money Stuff' newsletter. It's from Bloomberg but free - extremely informative, incisive and funny (did I mention free?) A bit american-centric and I think at its best if you already have some familiarity with financial markets, but super accessible and very fun.
@Rob93, thank you for the suggestion! I will subscribe to this now!
Resources I find/found particularly useful are:
1. Watson's Daily (I still subscribe and it really is great). I mostly read it over breakfast/a coffee ☕.
2.
@BK's posts (found
here). They are fantastic.
Hope that helps