The more you soak in about the practicalities of deals, transactions or files that law firms or
corporations deal with on a daily basis, the more you can show that you can be a substantive contributor as an articling student.
In the introduction, the authors state the problem they seek to address: «Certain societies that could have more easily ignored the United States fifty years ago find themselves today
dealing with U.S.
corporations, fashion, food, entertainment, and U.S. foreign policy
on a
daily basis.