Get application-ready: build your commercial awareness this summer
Learn practical ways to build commercial awareness this summer and apply a legal lens to current events ahead of applications and assessments.
Event starts on Tuesday 2nd June at 11:00 GMT
2026/06/02 11:00
Get application-ready: build your commercial awareness this summer
Learn practical ways to build commercial awareness this summer and apply a legal lens to current events ahead of applications and assessments.
With applications approaching and summer assessments in mind, now is the perfect time to build your commercial awareness, but getting started can be challenging.
In this session, you will learn how to build this essential skill in a focused and practical way. Including, how to track key trends, analyse commercial stories, and develop habits that will strengthen your applications.
What you’ll gain:
- A clear understanding of commercial awareness in practice
- Simple, effective ways to build it over the summer
- Tips for applying a legal lens to current events
From summer assessment centres to autumn applications, this session will help you stand out with a stronger, more commercially aware approach.
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Meet the host
White & Case
White & Case is a global law firm with more than 2,500 lawyers worldwide. We’ve built an unrivalled network of 43 offices in 29 countries, an investment that is the foundation for our client work in more than 200 countries today.
Our innovative approaches and nuanced local market knowledge create unique solutions to our clients’ most complex domestic and multijurisdictional deals and disputes. We anticipate what they want, provide what they need and build lasting relationships. Our culture comes to life through our three core values: Pioneering, United and Human.
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