If you’re hoping to go into business, or if you are a trainee lawyer wishing to meet and think about the law and business in real life, this Society will be for you! It also should provide you with further evidence for your future employers that you have a strong awareness of how the legal and commercial worlds interact.

What?

The “BPP Legal Awareness Society” (LAS) is a brand-new informal group for all students wishing to learn about commercial law topics. The Society is run entirely by students. You don’t need to know anything about the law already to benefit from our discussions!

The LAS will especially be relevant to LPC law students with an interest in commercial law, GDL law students wishing to demonstrate commercial awareness for training contract applications, and business Masters students wishing to explore a wide range of commercial law issues such as corporate finance.

The LAS officially launches on 4^th April 2011, although you can join now.

Who can join?

Any member of BPP can join, including BPP students of business, law, finance and accounting.

How to join

It takes seconds to join through the VLE. Here are the steps which take a few seconds:

1. Log in to BPP VLE Blackboard.
2. Go to the Community tab.
3. In the furthest right tab, press ‘Browse Organisation Catalogue’.
4. Search the catalogue for our society whose name contains ‘Legal Awareness Society’.
5. Join.

What do I get from joining through the VLE?

Your Community tab for the LAS will now show announcements, giving complete details of our meetings.

We will also be uploading presentations from our meetings.

There’ll also be a timetable for our meetings which we’re in the process of finalizing.

Finally, we will be producing regular newsletters. You’ll be sent these newsletters through e-mail.

When?

Our physical meetings will be every fortnight at BPP Business School, very close to the Gherkin, at 2 St Mary Axe.

The location is shown on this map : http://bit.ly/hPJoWn

The Society has a website available all the time http://legal-aware.org which currently contains free videos and information pages on arbitration, competition, corporate social responsibility, debt finance, e-commerce, intellectual property, IPOs and right issues, joint ventures and share acquisitions.

We hope to include employment and pensions as well as tax soon.

You can follow the Society on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Legal-Aware/132118340190157

as well as Twitter

http://twitter.com/legalaware

*** However, it’s essential to join through the VLE. ***

How can I get involved?

We would particularly like to hear from you if you should wish to be involved in the running of our Society, and to become an official part of our team. We aim the emphasis of our society to be friendly but professional.

Who to contact?

If you e-mail our Society (bpplas@gmail.com), you will get a reply from one of our team members virtually immediately.

We should be especially happy to answer any inquiries about what we’ll be doing or how you can get involved, as well as to receive any suggestions about topics we should cover.

A final note

You should note that BPP also has a very active ‘Commercial Awareness Society’, which is also available from the organisation catalogue.

Our aims are very similar, but the groups are intended primarily for students of different professional backgrounds.