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Business Acumen

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Learn the skills to become a commercially aware lawyer

Welcome to BCLP’s Business Acumen Job Simulation! We are thrilled to have you here.

During this programme, you will have the opportunity to step into the shoes of a BCLP team member and learn some essential skills that are important for all professionals. You’ll learn key skills in commercial awareness, verbal communication and presentation, legal reasoning, and issue identification.  

We hope this programme provides a great resource for you to upskill and strengthen your resume as you explore career options and a potential career at BCLP.

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

Skills Learned:

  • Intro & Scenario
    Background context and your project team
  • Part 1: How to build commercial awareness
    Develop your commercial awareness to kick start your career

    • Commercial Awareness
    • Issue Spotting and Identification
    • Legal Reasoning
    • Logic Skills
  • Part 2: How to build commercial awareness
    Go the next step further to use your commercial awareness

    • Logical Reasoning
    • Legal Reasoning
    • Verbal Communication
  • Part 1: Actionable intelligence
    Practise using your commercial awareness in a client setting

    • Written Communication Skills
    • Legal Reasoning
    • Effective Email Communication
  • Part 2: Actionable intelligence
    Practice using your commercial awareness in a client setting

    • Legal Reasoning
    • Issue Identification
    • Writing Skills
    • Logic Skills
  • Finish Line

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  • 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

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    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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          925 W. Edenborne Parkway
          Gonzales, LA 70737
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