The Commercial Awareness Compass by AllAboutLaw
The Commercial Awareness Compass by AllAboutLaw helps you build your commercial awareness every week with a beginners, intermediate and advanced breakdown of a story from an expert lawyer and trainee solicitor host.
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Podcasting since 2025 • 23 episodes
The Commercial Awareness Compass by AllAboutLaw
Latest Episodes
From GenAI to general counsel: how clients are driving law firm innovation | Commercial Awareness Compass #23
Corporate clients are no longer asking if law firms use AI, they’re demanding to know how. As clients begin measuring AI-readiness as a key scoring point, firms are under pressure to adopt tools that promise efficiency, value, and competitive e...
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Episode 23
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26:34
Malware in aisle five: M&S cyber attack causes chaos | Commercial Awareness Compass #22
Easter brought more than chocolate eggs for M&S this year, as a cyber attack left stores without contactless payments, VPNs down, and legal teams in overdrive. From missed sales to GDPR duties, this episode unpacks how cyber attacks trigger...
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Episode 22
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26:51
Cookie crumbles – Google's ad-tech throne wobbles | Commercial Awareness Compass #21
A US judge has ruled that Google’s online advertising empire is less fairground, more monopoly board, finding the tech giant guilty of anti-competitive practices across its ad-tech stack. With regulators circling on both sides of the Atlantic, ...
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Episode 21
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26:13
A licence to thrill: inside Universal's £50bn UK theme park | Commercial Awareness Compass #20
Universal’s plan to build a 476-acre resort near Bedford isn’t just a playground for James Bond, wizards and dinosaurs, it’s a six-year case study in IP licensing, land assembly, environmental compliance and employment strategy. Behind the them...
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Episode 20
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31:15
Cuthbert on trial: how supermarket IP wars make for legal drama | Commercial Awareness Compass #19
From Colin to Cuthbert, supermarket shelves have become a legal battleground over copycat products. That’s because disputes over logos, packaging and lookalike cakes are dragging major retailers like M&S, Aldi, Tesco and Lidl into court. Wi...
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Episode 19
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