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Commercial Law

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Take the first step of your legal career with a global law firm that looks at things from a different perspective.

Welcome to our Virtual Experience Programme. 

In this programme, you will gain an insight into our legal teams and understand the type of work our trainee lawyers and apprentices do every day at Kennedys. You will also develop important skills that will help set you up for your future career in law and receive a personalised completion certificate to share with prospective employers and your professional network.

Our programme is available to all school and university students from a law or non-law background and no previous work experience is required to participate.

We are committed to developing the future generation of lawyers so if you want to make a difference and shape the future of law, join our programme today. 

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Prepare a witness statement that can be used in a litigated claim
    Developing your legal analysis skills

    • Strategic Reasoning
    • Legal Drafting
    • Legal Analysis
  • Assist with a client pitch presentation
    Developing your legal knowledge of the insurance industry

    • Presentation Skills
    • Commercial Awareness
    • Pitching
  • Leave a voicemail for a client
    Developing professional communication skills

    • Document Review
    • Verbal Communication
    • Client Relations
  • Draft a memo on the effect of a “force majeure” clause
    Developing legal research and drafting skills

    • Legal Research
    • Commercial Advisory
    • Legal Drafting
  • Finish Line

Experience Information

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Are you looking to use real-time job market data to make informed decisions about your future career path, explore relevant salary data, or identify the skills you need to build or market to get your next role? Use the following tool to explore your options.

There are two ways to navigate this tool:

  1. Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue, or skills you may have that could be relevant for a particular career path.
  2. Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.
Find career data by selecting keywords Keyword Search
or, by filtering for industry and occupation Industry Search

First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

  • 01 Occupation Description
  • 02 Employment Trends
  • 03 Top Employers
  • 04 Education Levels
  • 05 Annual Earnings
  • 06 Technical Skills
  • 07 Core Competencies
  • 08 Job Titles

Occupation Description

Employment Trends

The number of jobs in the career for the past two years, the current year, and projections for the next 10 years. Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs. Sources include Emsi industry data, staffing patterns, and OES data.

Top Employers

These companies are currently hiring for .

    Education Levels

    The educational attainment percentage breakdown for a career (e.g. the percentage of people in the career who hold Bachelor’s Degrees vs. Associate Degrees). Educational attainment levels are provided by O*NET.

    Annual Earnings

    Earnings figures are based on OES data from the BLS and include base rate, cost of living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (including commissions and bonuses), on-call pay, and tips.

    Technical Skills

    A list of hard skills associated with a given career ordered by the number of unique job postings which ask for those skills.

      Core Competencies

      The skills for the career. The "importance" is how relevant the ability is to the occupation: scale of 1-5. The "level" is the proficiency required by the occupation: scale of 0-100. Results are sorted by importance first, then level.

        Job Titles

        A list of job titles for all unique postings in a given career, sorted by frequency.

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