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  1. Coralin96

    Legal Cheek's Future of Legal Education and Training Conference

    Wow @Jonty this is absolutely incredible, thank you so much for writing this up, there's so much good information in there. That's really interesting to read about hiring from the perspective of law firms and the SQE debate. You must have a fantastic memory!
  2. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - May 2018

    This is great stuff for a Links app :)
  3. Coralin96

    Video Interview help

    I think they vary a lot. One of mine was 30 secs to prep and 60 seconds to respond. But I've seen ones with 15 secs to prepare and 1 minute to respond and another one with 30 seconds to prepare and 2 minutes to respond!
  4. Coralin96

    Law Tech training contract

    It's the only thing keeping me going right now :P
  5. Coralin96

    Law Tech training contract

    Woo congrats!! I've still got over a month left to go :(
  6. Coralin96

    Law Firms & LawTech

    I didn't realise how many of the firms were using AI/tech platforms like this. Amazing to have it all in one place to refer to, thank you!
  7. Coralin96

    Law Tech training contract

    Welcome back! How did your exams go??
  8. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - May 2018

    Next update - thanks Nicole + Jaysen for helping me again! This one is a little late so I've looked at the big news stories over the last couple of weeks :) 17/05/2018 BT's radical restructuring The Story: In one of its biggest transformations in a decade, BT is cutting 13,000 jobs in a bid...
  9. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - May 2018

    Btw I'm going to get back on the briefing tomorrow guys :) In the meantime, a good read (sorry from the FT I know): https://www.ft.com/content/2faa2420-581d-11e8-b8b2-d6ceb45fa9d0
  10. Coralin96

    Law Tech training contract

    Not sure if @Jonty is still around but he might be interested in this. He wrote that guide above!
  11. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - May 2018

    I may or may not be using my flatmates subscription :P
  12. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - May 2018

    Hi everyone, I thought I'd start a new thread for the May posts like before. Thank you @Nicole and @Jaysen for helping me to explain/tidy these up! I think they will also be sending these out in the next newsletter. Trump withdraws from Iran nuclear deal The story: Trump announced that the...
  13. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - April 2018

    Last one before the end of the month :) Former CFO of Autonomy guilty of fraud The Story: First some background - Back in 2011, Hewlett Packard paid over $11.1bn to acquire Autonomy. The year after that, three quarters of Autonomy's value was written down as HP alleged Autonomy had inflated...
  14. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - April 2018

    Deutsche Bank scaling back in the US The Story: According to the FT, 300 US investment bank staff were fired from Deutsche Bank and another 100 are set to follow before the end of this week. The company is refocusing on corporate finance in Europe. It noted that it lacks a long-term...
  15. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - April 2018

    Thank you I'm glad you found it helpful! Good luck inyour interview!
  16. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - April 2018

    Next update :) 22/04/2018 New UK Corporate Governance Rules The Story: The UK is introducing new corporate governance reforms in May in an attempt to tackle some of the unacceptable practices of businesses during the financial crisis and the collapse of large private companies. It will...
  17. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness Briefing

    Yesssss I love this idea! Especially any newsletters about the challenges law firms face and the future of law firms. I've been asked both of those in interviews before and I felt like my answers were so vague. So that would be really helpful :)
  18. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - April 2018

    I pretty much just youtube topics that I'm not sure about. I found this really helpful as an intro to the economy: Interest rates (and just the crash course series in general is good) Shares/stock exchange Inflation (I love this video!) For the financial crisis I pretty much just...
  19. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - April 2018

    Next update :) 13/04/2018 Trump reconsidering trade agreement The Story: Trump is said to be looking to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership but he wants to see a better deal for the US than before. Trump originally withdrew from TPP and criticised it during his campaign. Impact on law...
  20. Coralin96

    Commercial Awareness - April 2018

    I didn't know O'Melveny & Myers were mostly litigation, it seems a bit strange to me that the two firms want to partner up - is A&O big on litigation?

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