商业意识和法律学生进入法律职业的旅程-定义的挑战和毕业生面试的生活经验

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Siobhan McConnell
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商业意识是一项毕业生就业技能,受到律师事务所的高度重视,尤其是在法律职业招聘中占主导地位的大型商业律师事务所。然而,在毕业生招聘过程中,学生们可能很难理解和展示这一技能。本文考察了商业意识在法学院学生进入法律行业的关键时刻——律师事务所毕业生面试中的作用。本文介绍了一项为期两年的创新型混合方法研究的数据,该研究涉及一所92后大学的法学院学生,他们正在接受律师事务所的采访。它通过考虑如何以及何时评估商业意识以及评估所带来的挑战和机遇,从学生的角度深入了解律师事务所面试的“生活体验”。本研究进一步加深了我们对法律专业学生如何定义商业意识的有限理解,将这些定义与法律专业人士所使用的定义进行了比较,并考虑了学生与律师事务所之间的脱节。本文认为,在商业意识的背景下,律师事务所和法学院可以做更多的事情来更好地支持法律专业学生在法律行业就业。
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Commercial awareness and the law student journey into the legal profession – definitional challenges and the lived experience of the graduate interview
ABSTRACT Commercial awareness is a graduate employability skill that is highly valued by law firms, particularly the larger commercial law firms that dominate recruitment into the legal profession. However, it is a skill that students may struggle to understand and to demonstrate during the graduate recruitment process. This article examines the role of commercial awareness at a crucial point in the law student journey into the legal profession – the law firm graduate interview. This article presents data collected from an innovative two year mixed-methods research study involving law students at a post-92 university who were undergoing interviews with law firms. It provides insight into the “lived experience” of the law firm interview from a student perspective by considering how and when commercial awareness is assessed and the challenges and opportunities assessment presents. This study furthers our limited understanding of how law students define commercial awareness, comparing those definitions to those employed by the legal profession and considering the disconnect between students and law firms. This article argues that, in the context of commercial awareness, there is more that law firms and law schools can do to better support law students seeking employment in the legal profession.
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