The death of black US citizen George Floyd has sparked global protests demanding an end to the systemic racism within justice systems and law enforcement. There are a number of organisations that you can support, including the United Friends and Families Campaign and the UK-wide funding pool, which helps individuals and communities that are working towards racial justice.

This week’s commercial news round-up highlights the mission behind the anti-racism protests and provides a short summary of other news in the business and legal world.

How strong is your business mind? Can you read a news story and isolate the political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental impact a piece of news will have?

Have a go at doing this with this week’s commercial news round-up.

As the biggest vacation scheme deadline of the year looms and you are busy sending off your final applications, don’t forget to stay up to date with the latest news from the business and legal worlds. Read on for this week’s commercial news round-up.

Milk is the big news this week, and we’re here to spill it all. Plus, HSBC is facing an uproar from its largest shareholder, the music industry’s feeling threatened by AI, there’s a shortage of doctors and no one has faith in the UK’s political system. You want to be more commercially aware, and we’re here to make that happen with this week’s commercial news round-up.  

Manchester City launches legal action against the Premier League, while TikTok and Ticketmaster experience cyberattacks that may have compromised the personal data of millions of clients, including celebrities and brands. Plus, an Irish takeaway chain has won a major trademark battle against McDonald’s, and researchers are using AI to help reduce animal testing. Read this week’s commercial news round-up to find out more.

Are you up to date on this week’s news? The Bank of England has announced that it’s holding interest rates, while Disney and Warner Bros are collaborating to create a new streaming package. Plus, in the world of social media, Ofcom has released new regulations for social media algorithms targeting children, and TikTok and ByteDance have launched a lawsuit in an effort to stop the app being banned in the US. Read this week’s commercial news round-up to find out more.

This article provides a high-level introduction to commercial awareness, including recommendations of the sources and strategies you can use to build your commercial awareness over time.

News of the Sainsbury’s and Asda merger has sent shockwaves through the supermarket sector this week. Designed to fight the pre-eminence of the giant Tesco, as well as helping to see off the Lidl/Aldi success stories, the merger would create a company with 330,000 staff and an annual revenue of around £51 billion. Both supermarkets have vowed that no jobs will be lost, nor stores closed, but MPs have raised concerned about the negative effect on suppliers. For other commercial news, read on.

We’ve put everything that we know, and that you need to know, about commercial awareness into our brand new commercial awareness section on LCN. Use it as a starting point to work out what this valuable skill really means and how you can develop it. But before you do that, find out which commercial stories have been shaping the legal world this week.

Happy Thursday!

It’s time for the LawCareers.Net commercial news round-up. 

New EU trading rules cause concern and Jeremy Hunt falls short on plans to cut taxes in the spring. Plus, Universal Music has started to remove its songs from TikTok and HSBC faces a fine from the Bank of England. Find out more in this week’s commercial news round-up.

We’ve picked out four headlines from the past week and summarised them in today's round-up. Read on to get your 2024 commercial awareness resolutions off to a good start. 

As the autumn term is fast approaching and social gathering rules are updated, this commercial news round-up outlines some of the week’s interesting news to help you develop your commercial awareness.

Italy is removing same-sex parents from children’s birth certificates, the NHS is worse off than it was in 2011, Just Stop Oil protests continue, the government is increasing the demand for physical education in schools and anger rises regarding the two-child benefit debate. There’s lots to unpack in this week’s commercial news round-up.

Grab that ice cream and sit down with LawCareers.Net’s commercial news round-up for a summary of our pick of the news from the past week. What’s on your radar?

It’s all kicking off, isn’t it? On this side of the Atlantic, EU officials, hard-line Eurosceptics and everyone caught in the middle are arguing vociferously about what economic benefits Britain can and cannot have after Brexit. Meanwhile, across the pond business leaders are running for the hills from a president who is giving cover to unreconstructed, swastika-waving Nazis currently taking to the streets to howl their rage at the existence of black people, Jewish people, women, liberals and pretty much the rest of humanity. Here is your round-up of commercial news and insights from another crazy week on planet Earth. 

Summer’s over, it’s back to law school. What better way to begin the autumn term than LCN’s latest commercial news round-up. 

Read this week’s commercial news round-up for some of the latest news relating to the business and legal worlds.

With a major training contract application deadline looming at the end of this month, what are you doing to improve your commercial awareness ahead of any interviews? Take a look at this week’s news round-up and consider the commercial impact of these stories. 

The big news from this week has to be Sports Direct founder (and all-round nice guy) Mike Ashley snatching up troubled department store House of Fraser mere minutes after it announced its collapse into administration last Friday morning.