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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 207455" data-attributes="member: 36777">Firstly, to be able to make relevant comparisons between their work you will need to have a high level understanding of what each practice area does. A useful concept here is the transactional/contentious/advisory distinction:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Transactional practices: core purpose is to enable clients to complete deals, focus of work will be around preparation of contractual documents and negotiating favorable terms (with research and drafting tasks mostly pertaining to that).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Contentious practices: core purpose is to obtain favorable outcomes in disputes, whether via a settlement or a more litigious procedure, work being therefore focused on presenting (and responding to) good legal arguments. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Advisory practices: core purpose it to help client understand their legal position within a particular field and to help them structure their business in compliance with it; thus, work is concentrated around researching complex legal and regulatory frameworks. </li> </ul>After you identify where the practice are you are interested in is placed between these categories, you will want to better understand the work done by other practice areas in the same category (as they will be most similar, and therefore finding differences here will be most difficult). To understand the basics of the work done by these other practices, I would have a read through the Chambers practice area overviews. Finally, you want to get the most detailed understanding possible of the specific practice you want to differentiate from others. I would use a combination of targeted Google searches with different variations of relevant key words ('name of practice are' and 'junior lawyer work', 'trainee tasks' etc) in conjunction with the Chambers UK overviews (for a shorter and more high level description) and then the Practical Law/Westlaw Practice Area Introductory Guides (which are very comprehensive but in many places go in more depth than you need). Throughout your readings, actively consider questions such as the following:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is there any particular task or set of tasks that are more needed in these areas than others?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What is the basic rationale of clients paying for service in this practice? What is their commercial benefit, and does it different from that in other practices?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Does the class of clients most often advised by this practice differ from that of other practice areas?</li> </ul></blockquote>

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