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Discussing current affairs and industry trends
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Introduction to current affairs
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Why do you need to know about current affairs?
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How do current affairs come up in interviews?
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What level of understanding do you need ?
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Is breadth or depth of commercial awareness more important?
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Current news and developments: 2025
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from October 2025
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from Aug/Sep 2025
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from June 2025
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from May 2025
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from April 2025
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from March 2025
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from February 2025
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A review of 2024 and themes to look out for in 2025
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Legal industry trends and developments
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Legal industry trends from June - September 2025 (with Luke Mitchinson)
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Legal industry trends from March 2025 - May 2025 (with Luke Mitchinson)
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Legal industry trends from December 2024 - February 2025 (with Luke Mitchinson)
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Legal industry trends from September - November 2024 (with Luke Mitchinson)
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Trends relating to law firm ownership and growth (with large law firm founder Andrew Thompson)
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Artificial intelligence and the law (with leading media lawyer Andrew Thompson)
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Reflections on legal technology (with Jake Schogger)
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Reflections on legal technology (with Gordon Chung and Simranjeet Mann)
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Legal industry tends: 2020 and beyond
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Developing your understanding and awareness of current affairs
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Reading about current affairs: newspapers
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Reading about current affairs: digests and data aggregators
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How to select news stories to discuss
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Techniques to develop your awareness and understanding of current affairs
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How to discuss current affairs in interviews
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How to effectively discuss current affairs
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How to tailor your discussion to an interviewer
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How to link current affairs to a firm
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Common mistakes
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Advice from successful candidates
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Worked examples of discussing current affairs
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Peter Watson's retail worked example
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Peter Watson's commercial real estate worked example
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Peter Watson's OpenAI/Sam Altman worked example
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Peter Watson's John Lewis worked example
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Examples of how Jake Schogger discussed news stories in his interviews
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What is the potential economic impact of tariffs?
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Examples of how Harry Clark discussed news stories in his interviews
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Successful application answers to commercial questions (with feedback)
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Discuss a news story or commercial topic (40 examples)
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Discuss a legal case or development (8 examples)
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Questions about clients and law firm management (13 examples)
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Macroeconomics
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Introduction to macroeconomics
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QUIZ ~ Macroeconomics
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Current news and developments: 2024
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from October 2024
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from September 2024
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from June 2024
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from April 2024
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from March 2024
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from February 2024
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A review of 2023 and key themes to look out for in 2024
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Current news and developments: 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from November 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from October 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from September 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from August 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from July 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from May and June 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from April 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from March 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from February 2023
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from January 2023
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A review of 2022 and key themes to look out for in 2023
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Current news and developments: 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from November 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from October 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from September 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from August 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from July 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from June 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from May 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from April 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from March 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from February 2022
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from January 2022
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A review of 2021 and key themes to look out for in 2022
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Current news and developments: 2020 - 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from November 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from October 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from September 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from August 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from May 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from July 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from June 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from April 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from March 2021
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Spring Budget Update 2021
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from February 2021
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A review of 2020 and key trends to look out for in 2021
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Further reading
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Recommended resources
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E-guide to commercial awareness
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Current affairs wrap up: business, legal and markets insights from June 2022
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