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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DavidJC" data-source="post: 231431" data-attributes="member: 4361">Honestly it depends on the firm you're interested in and their strengths. I've talked about patent cliffs and tariffs on pharma re life sciences, interest rates re M&A, capital requirements/private credit re PE (specifically if private credit is part of the firm's offering, they're really just non-bank loans), and sluggish London market re capital markets, amongst other things. Your interests also matter, and it's about linking something you find interesting back to the firm and whatever it is about the firm that draws you, the main caveat also being that it must link back specifically to the office you're applying to (London/Birmingham/Leeds or wherever it may be in the UK).Like the Employment Rights Bill just received RA and most of it will be in force by April so you can also talk about how that affects employers (clients) esp if the firm has an employment practice. It may seem like it's a legal issue in a vacuum but we're not in a vacuum and it's really a commercial issue in terms of how employers respond to new rules, whether they need to change their practices (*stares at P&O Cruises, the shameless bastards*), can they afford employees on fixed hours contracts (keeping in mind NI changes earlier this year) since zero hours contracts will basically be dead.Just generally speaking you can look up sector trends for something a firm does and you'll find something out. This can be shipping, insurance, real estate (esp commercial property has some interesting developments recently), construction, ESG, energy, mining, tech, and honestly something like consumer behaviour due to the cost of living crisis can be spun in many different ways to be relevant to several different sectors/practice areas. I think I can think of a different commercial issue in each of these area without relying on the ones I've already discussed before like interest rates, London market etcHope that helps, but it's up to you to find the spice in these things and convey that spice!</blockquote>

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