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Lawyers with years of experience at leading London law firms who have been on both sides of the table.
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Future trainees at Magic Circle, Silver Circle, elite US, and top UK commercial firms.
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Final year, University of Durham
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Every firm asks for it. None of them tell you what it means or what to read. So you piece it together from wherever you can and hope it's enough.
You read the FT religiously, subscribe to all the newsletters and sign up to the forums, but still feel lost. You don't know what law firms expect, or how much you need to know.
Partners don't ask you to recite the news. They ask what it means for clients, what work it creates, and what you think. Reading is the easy part.
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What does an M&A lawyer really do? How do private equity deals work? What separates Magic Circle from US firms in London? The fundamentals nobody teaches you at university. Explained properly, by people who do this every day.
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