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Matt Oliver is a legal career consultant and the founder of Trainee Solicitor Surgery.
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Paralegal Vacancy, Family Law, North Wales

Details: From the recruitment agency: Our clients are an excellent niche private family practice in North Wales with a first class client base. They are looking for a paralegal to work with the senior partner to cover a spell of maternity leave commencing June this year until January 2013. The ideal candidate will have a [...]

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Training Contract Vacancy, Jirehouse Capital, London

Details: We are an English legal practice regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We provide a wide range of private international legal, tax and fiduciary services to a diverse range of individual and corporate clients. We are a boutique firm, often providing specialist tax and corporate structuring advice and services in a variety of situations. [...]

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Is Commerciality Rocket Science?! – Part 2

Is Commerciality Rocket Science?! – Part 2

Read Part 1 of this article here… Question (3): What are you doing to show you are ‘commercial’? Some might tell you that commerciality or commercial awareness is something you acquire after practising or being in business for a significant period of time. Others (likely to be more uptight as human beings) will tell you [...]

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Is Commerciality Rocket Science?!

Let’s set the scene: You’re about to go into a commercial law firm for an interview for either a training contract or a vacation scheme; You know or you’ve been told that you will need to display a sense of ‘commerciality’ when discussing your future career with those who might be able to give you [...]

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