Today, on 28 September 2011, the BPP Legal Awareness Society will have a stall at the BPP London Freshers’ Fair 2011. The Fair runs from 1400 to 1800 (with refreshments thereafter until 2000).
The BPP Legal Awareness Society has a mission statement of promoting the importance of commercial and contract law to business, and the importance of commercial clients to commercial and corporate law.
Joining our Society particularly as a member of Teams A or B is a great way to demonstrate a commitment to teamwork or commercial awareness for training contract application form for commercial/corporate law firms.
Whilst based in London, we are hoping that you may be interested if you study at other BPP campuses. Our physical meetings this year will take place in the BPP Business School at St Mary Axe (London) and the BPP Law School (London). They will especially be of interest to GDL, LPC, LLM, MBA and other Master students in accountacy or tax particularly.
Our meetings for next term are outlined in the following link.
We are seeking to appoint members of the following teams.
Team A People to contribute to writing copy about legal news/law firms/education/other topics of interest for this blog http://www.legal-aware.org.
Our blog has a wide readership, including senior legal academics, legal practitioners, journalists specialising in legal education and/or new, educators and member of the legal tweeting/blogging community.
Writing news stories is a superb way of improving your written communication skills, and for keeping up-to-date about news from legal education or law firms. Here’s one from yesterday on the fringe event run by @SoundOffJustice at the Labour Conference in Liverpool 2011.
We produce our own educational videos on key topics in corporate law. There are currently 14 of them. The narration is done by the current BBC1 continuity presenter. Here’s one on climate change and the law. Law students have found the videos very useful for enhancing ‘commercial awareness’ for the general education and/or training contract interviews.
We do not require help with our twitter thread http://twitter.com/legalaware, although our Twitter feed is currently very popular (with 1800 followers). Interacting on our thread is a good way to meet people involved in law and business.
Team B People to help writing verbal reasoning questions for our new online facility to help people train for the SHL Direct verbal reasoning tests. The Legal Awareness Society, run by students of BPP, are operating this initiative under the name ‘Legal Recruit).
We will be inviting people to attend a training session on doing and setting these questions in October 2011. A team of volunteers will help us write the questions; taking part will give you free practice, and to help you understand how these tests work.
Team C Joining as an ‘ordinary’ member of the Society. The Society is open to all student members of BPP. A lot of our activities are online through Twitter and our blog. To join the Society, all you need to do is to navigate through the ‘Community’ tab in Blackboard.
