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Commercial Law

Location: United States
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Approachable. Bold. Connected. Pinsent Masons is a global professional services business with law at its core.

Pinsent Masons set out to create a legal business in Australia for the future rather than one based in the past. With leading expertise in the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors, we have built a team entirely around the needs of our clients operating in these sectors. Today, we’re focused on servicing their needs with the same level of creativity, innovation and ambition as is typical of these clients themselves.

We recognise that our clients don’t just have legal problems; they have commercial challenges and opportunities. So, we don’t just apply lawyers to address these we deploy a wide range of professionals, technologies and frameworks to work with our clients to enable their strategies.  

Do you want to test your skills with one of the world’s top 100 law firms? Your journey with Pinsent Masons begins here.

In this program, we’ll take you through the lifecycle of a matter, from front-end transactions including setting up a company and contract execution, to managing a project and providing contract guidance, to drafting witness statements in a dispute. Join us on a legal journey to learn some of the skills required to work in this fast paced and competitive market.

This program will provide you with skills in:

→ Legal research

→ Client Communication

→ Giving practical advice and structuring answers

→ Contractual interpretation

→ Legal analysis and drafting

→ Preparing witness statements

It’s time to take the law into your own hands…

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Foreign company carrying on business in Australia

    • Legal research
    • Drafting a memo
    • Client communication
  • Autonomous & connected vehicles (ACVs)
    Help advise a VC fund on the Australian regulatory landscape of autonomous & connected vehicles (ACVs)

    • Autonomous & connected vehicles
    • Regulatory advice
    • Client communication
  • Advice about the effect of a “time-bar”

    • Legal research
    • Legal analysis
    • Client communication
    • Research summary
  • Nomination of arbitrator

    • Legal Analysis
    • Research summary
    • Email communication
  • Initial coin offerings & digital currencies
    Understand & advise on the regulatory landscape of ICOs and digital currencies

    • ICOs & digital currencies
    • Financial licensing
    • Oral client communication
  • Incorporation of a company

    • Written communication
    • Legal research
    • Giving practical advice
  • Guidance for an extension of time clause

    • Contractual interpretation
    • Contract guidance
  • Draft witness statement

    • Reviewing
    • Identifying
    • Drafting
  • Execution of a contract

    • Legal research
    • Oral communication
    • Structuring answers

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

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      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.

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