Commercial Awareness: What is it and how do you get it? - a podcast by Frances Ridout, Kerry Jarred, Simon Reichwald, Nigel Spencer

Can trader training help you with your legal career? Should work experience be re-named experience of work? This episode welcomes graduate Arun Sohan-Pall and David Ampaw, a partner at DLA Piper explore the importance of students seeking to understand the work place in order to gain genuine commercial awareness. 

This episode encourages listeners to undertake some practical actions after listening to the episode. 

1. Reflect on how to understand the business of law. Who can you speak to and how can you source information to further understand the business of law? What operationally works and is important to law firms.

2. Think about an area you have a natural interest in and use the information available to really understand what that area is about - go on get under the skin!

Useful resources:
- Have a look at the Prime website for students: https://primecommitment.co.uk/for-students.
- Explore the careers, news and graduate sections of the Totally Legal website: https://www.totallylegal.com/careers/news/

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