Law Week 2026- Grow your Commercial Awareness Skills with Macfarlanes

During this interactive workshop, a member from the early careers recruitmnet team at leading City Law Firm, Macfarlanes.Macfarlanes will guide you on a best approach to understand commercial awareness as it is understood by law firms and get you hands-on experience on how to analyse the business world from a legal perspective through real commercial case studies so that you can use this knowledge to stand out in your legal applications

This is the type of exercise that you can expect in interview and assessment centre activities during your vacation and training contract applications and will sharpen both your teamwork, analysis and critical thinking.

Aimed at

All students

Aims & Objectives

By attending this session you will:

Develop your understanding of commercial awareness by exploring how law firms analyse business, industry and current affairs issues that affect their clients.
Build your confidence in applying commercial awareness to legal scenarios through practical exercises and real-world case studies.
Strengthen future applications and interviews by learning how to demonstrate commercial awareness in a way that employers value.