Instructions
Word limit is 1000 words, and this excludes footnotes and bibliography.
Learning Outcomes
Your assessment must achieve an appropriate range of the following learning outcomes. As a reminder, a learning outcome is something which you will be able to do, and to demonstrate that you can do at the end of a particular piece of work; in this case once you have completed the assessment.
Knowledge and understanding:
• Demonstrate a high level of specialist knowledge and of conceptual understanding at the forefront of the areas of professional and business practice studied
• Demonstrate a high level of conceptual understanding of principles of business and management so as to understand, anticipate and respond to the needs of business clients
Intellectual:
• Evaluate critically current knowledge, research and advanced scholarship in the areas of professional and
business practice studied, including research and professional methodologies where appropriate;
• Analyse complex legal, business and management issues affecting client matters both systematically and
creatively, making sound judgments in the absence of complete data in complex and unpredictable situations Assessment
QUESTION 1
AJ are analysing the legal market to inform their strategy.
The partners have allocated a selection of firms to trainees and have asked trainees to submit a SWOT analysis of their allocated firm to the partners.
You have been asked to complete a SWOT analysis of Slaughter and May. You are keen to impress the partners and intend to show your analytical and research skills in this task. Ensure that you explain why the points you make are a strength/weakness/opportunity/threat and reference your sources.
You must use publicly available information (including information on ULaw’s library database) and reference your work throughout so that the information can be verified. No credit will be given for points based on personal knowledge or insight gained other than via public sources.
