Lawyers Aware
The Lawyers Aware project was pioneered by SIFE Lancaster (www.sifelancaster.org) in February 2007. Its aim is to help Law students succeed in the legal profession’s highly competitive graduate recruitment process by improving their commercial awareness.
Commercial awareness is essentially the ability to think in a commercially relevant way. It is a skill graduate recruiters from commercial Law firms are increasingly seeking because solicitors are no longer guardians of the Law, but business advisors charged with making real commercial decisions for their clients on an everyday basis, in every corner of the globe. The project consists of three one-week business simulation games that require teams of students from universities across the Northwest of England to negotiate their way through three commercial Law disputes, covering the topics of Intellectual Property, Corporate Social Responsibility and Mergers and Acquisitions. The course, which is conducted entirely through our specially designed web-based learning portal, encourages students to think beyond the Law to understand the commercial significance of the decisions they are making and the outcomes they are negotiating for their clients. Throughout the scheme, students are provided with a comprehensive reading list to help increase their understanding of the relevant commercial and legal issues within each of the scenarios, and each weekly negotiation ends in an assessment. In its first year the scheme obtained support from pre-eminent Law firms Eversheds, Lovells and Walker Morris and involved student participants from both Manchester University and Lancaster University. In 2008 the Lawyers Aware Team intends to develop the project by incorporating more universities and gaining further recognition from other prominent Law firms in the United Kingdom.
For more information visit the Lawyers Aware programme.
Commercial awareness is essentially the ability to think in a commercially relevant way. It is a skill graduate recruiters from commercial Law firms are increasingly seeking because solicitors are no longer guardians of the Law, but business advisors charged with making real commercial decisions for their clients on an everyday basis, in every corner of the globe. The project consists of three one-week business simulation games that require teams of students from universities across the Northwest of England to negotiate their way through three commercial Law disputes, covering the topics of Intellectual Property, Corporate Social Responsibility and Mergers and Acquisitions. The course, which is conducted entirely through our specially designed web-based learning portal, encourages students to think beyond the Law to understand the commercial significance of the decisions they are making and the outcomes they are negotiating for their clients. Throughout the scheme, students are provided with a comprehensive reading list to help increase their understanding of the relevant commercial and legal issues within each of the scenarios, and each weekly negotiation ends in an assessment. In its first year the scheme obtained support from pre-eminent Law firms Eversheds, Lovells and Walker Morris and involved student participants from both Manchester University and Lancaster University. In 2008 the Lawyers Aware Team intends to develop the project by incorporating more universities and gaining further recognition from other prominent Law firms in the United Kingdom.
For more information visit the Lawyers Aware programme.
