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Our BPP student society strategy for the summer of 2012
Our new brochure is here.
It contains essential information about the BPP Legal Awareness Society, a popular student society at BPP, which discusses how corporates make strategic decisions in the context of law and regulation.
We will be sending out hard copies of the brochure, with an invitation to take part in a survey, to leading Corporate law firms at the end of June 2012. Through this, we hope to develop mutually agreed terms with firms as to how we can promote an understanding of business in legal education through our Society. We then hope to engage with such firms on this mutual basis. We will also continue to promote heavily the importance of community investment and pro bono projects in the law profession.
We have recently decided to appoint Zerbakht also to the role of Vice-President, a role which he will be sharing with Gizem until September 2012.
Welcome to the BPP Legal Awareness Society!
The BPP Legal Awareness Society is part of a vibrant community of student societies at BPP, which any student of BPP can join.
Non-members of BPP are warmly invited to keep in touch with the Society’s activities through its lively Twitter thread, along with its blog which is kept up-to-date by a number of members of the society. Zerbakht is the Society’s officer for corporate news content on the blog.
It is a separate entity from BPP, however its members feel it reflects the lively spirit and commitment to high standards of BPP. The mission of the society statement is: “Putting law at the heart of business“. This explains that we wish to explain to students, and the public at large, why an understanding of the law is pivotal to an understanding of business and the rest of society.
It holds regular meetings at BPP Law School Holborn (Sam is in charge of our events). Future guest speakers, in the near future, including a partner in English employment law, an expert in social media and the law, and a member of a leading ABS in England. All students across the wide range of BPP-taught disciplines are invited to attend. We also hope to have a greater outreach – whilst the Twitter thread has been going for some time, we’ll soon be publishing regular podcasts. Katie-Claire is the Society’s Officer in charge of that project. Gizem (the Society’s Corporate Liaison Officer) will be promoting good relationships with City firms, where many BPP law students end up completing their training contract at least.
We have a new logo. It’s a lion, to reflect our shared values with the place where we study. However. it’s distinct. The image represents the student body, which is friendly, intelligent, energetic, young, resourceful and focused.
If you’re a past, current, or future member of BPP, you can join here. We should especially like to hear from you if you’re at an early stage in (or about to start) an undergraduate degree course, but considering a career in business, law or finance.
Legal Awareness Student Society: debt finance presentations
Majid, our External Affairs Coordinator, gave three presentations on debt financing for the Legal Awareness Student Society for BPP students this afternoon, in our meeting at the Business School.
You can listen to them here.
Introduction to debt financing
Advantages and disadvantages of debt financing
Alternatives to using debt financing
© BPP Legal Awareness Society 2011. All rights reserved. This presentation is produced by the BPP Legal Awareness Society. The contents do not constitute legal or business advice. The Society takes no responsibility for the accuracy contained in this presentation. Finally, this presentation should not be relied upon.
About the BPP Legal Awareness Society
I am still one of the most active current full-time students of BPP enrolled on a postgraduate course, but I just wanted to clear the air over this issue. To prove it, I am expecting my MBA summative results in organisations and leadership and strategy, systems and operations, on Monday, so wish me luck!
‘Legal Recruit’ is an initiative resulting after discussions of students of the Legal Awareness Society. The Legal Awareness Society is a registered popular Society of BPP. The Twitter thread to be the official mouthpiece of this BPP Society. Its aim always has been through the social media to explain the links between business and law, and we indeed have a popular website which transcends any usual boundaries.
The Society has regular meetings in the City, at the BPP Business School, although any BPP student may attend. Bear in mind that we have students in accountancy, finance, business, law, tax and marketing – so it’s a fertile area for interdisciplinary analysis.
This Society has never received any funding from BPP. Carl Lygo, CEO of BPP, and Clare Tunstall, Student Support Officer, have between them offered funding at various stages; I feel the money would be better spent in other parts of BPP. We like our independence as students in the Society rather, in that all our views are independent of BPP. Save for being a Student Society entity within BPP, we are nothing to do with BPP or its part.
I am meticulous about not using any branding of BPP. I have no BPP branding on any of my videos, books or posts. It is at this point I would like to acknowledge that I have attempted to liaise with the social media unit at BPP who were very helpful in arriving at this draft of the terms and conditions of my LegalAware website albeit it is a student one only, please press here. I signpost these T+Cs in the huge box on my homepage, and indeed anybody who becomes a ‘member’ of my LegalAware website is deeemed to have read them.
Back to ‘Legal Recruit’. It became apparent to me, and Careers staff at BPP Business School, that it’s an enormous pity if law students, despite a II.1 and relevant work experience, perform suboptimally in the psychometric tests. There is in fact a disclaimer on the Legal Recruit website, which reads as follows. This has been the exact wording of the disclaimer since the website went live.
Commercial awareness is a hugely important competence for a trainee in any corporate law firm. You may like to follow legal news on the blog of the BPP Legal Awareness Society, and its Twitter thread. With over 2000 followers including barristers, solicitors, technology and business professionals, journalists and students, it’s a great way to meet legal #tweeps. Please note that LegalRecruit is not endorsed by BPP, and is entirely unaffiliated with any BPP learning.
I am passionate about disability rights and inclusivity. I want disabled law students to be at the heart of the system, which is why I have tried very hard to ensure that individuals with dyslexia or visual impairments are able to benefit from practice on these tests.
Instructions for joining BPP LegalAware if you're a BPP student
You should read this poster if you are a student member of BPP, and you wish to be kept up-to-date with all the information about the BPP Legal Awareness Society.
Please note that our first meeting is in fact this Wednesday 2 November 2011 at 3 pm, room G2 BPP Business School St Mary Axe- we’ll be discussing the need to integrate corporate business strategy and the law in organising a flotation (an initial public offering, or rights issue).
Thank you
Many thanks to those people who responded to our advert below (here is the link to the original site). We’re pleased report that we now have appointed quite a few additional writers, as requested, but please feel to contact me on Twitter should you be interested in writing with us.
Hi
Applications are now open for occasional article writers to a blog on corporate law. There will be no fixed demand for articles. If you’re generally interested in law, and like to read relevant media such as the BBC Business page, the Times Law Reports, Legal Week, The Lawyer, or Lawyer2be, this might genuinely interest you.
We are looking above all for good communicators.
The blog has just been launched, but posts are regularly advertised on Twitter to our 560 followers. Followers include law firms and legal journalists.
The blog is here: http://legal-aware.org/
Whilst this blog is the official site of the independent Legal Awareness Society run by student members at BPP for all members of BPP, we welcome applications from law students at other schools.
This is a student-run society of BPP. BPP is one of the leading legal education providers in England. Our blog emphasises core strengths of BPP education, including law, finance, business and extra-curricular activities such as pro bono.
The aim of the blog is to raise awareness of commercial law issues to a business community and to law students themselves.
Immediate start.
Applicants are welcome from any law student, particularly those doing the GDL or LPC, or LLM.
If you’re interested, please provide us with an email address with a brief description of your motivation and educational background ; we’d be grateful if you could make any applications as soon as possible. Please also don’t hesitate to contact us if you should like to make an informal enquiry.
It would be helpful if you could state whether you have any preference for writing on any of the following topics:
general law news
arbitration
climate change and the law
competition
corporate social responsibility
debt finance
e-commerce
employment and pensions
insurance
intellectual property
IPOs and rights issues
Islamic finance
joint ventures
share aquisitions
technology and the media
We are particularly keen to involve law students who wish to demonstrate commercial awareness and/or teamwork skills in corporate law training contract applications this year. However, please do contact us also if you’d rather be a barrister than a solicitor, or if you have a stronger interest in other areas of law. For example, we regularly post on privacy, so an interest in human rights would be desirable by us.
Thank you.
