Commercial Awareness Society

The University of Exeter Commercial Awareness Society (ECAS) is a student-led society within the University of Exeter law school. We seek to vigorously enhance student commercial awareness skills to prepare them for the legal and industrial work field.
Commercial awareness is a vital skill not just for lawyers, but for a large variety of other careers. Imagine your at mangoes and they want to charge you £10 entry! you will need to learn to negotiate your way down to £5 without being kicked out!

ECAS was established to support students' commercial understanding, especially when the need to be commercially aware has become the top decider in training contract applications. 
The Society aims to offer students a wide range of resources, to help them gain an awareness of current affairs and changes to the commercial world and go further and explore the consequences of positive and negative commercial news and even how to write about it in applications. 

How does ECAS work?
We host regular weekly/fortnightly meetings, held at the University of Exeter Penryn campus. During which our discussions are focussed on current and relevant commercial issues at the time of the meeting. We also organise workshops and events with our sponsors, two magic circle/silver circle law firms.

How would new students get involved?
New students can join our society by purchasing a yearly membership from the SU website which will give access to all our weekly/fortnightly meetings and events. Moreover, we will be holding multiple commercial awareness competitions with exciting prizes to be won. Furthermore becoming a committee member allows students to participate in the day-to-day running of the society, organise events and develop their own interpersonal skills which are crucial not only for engaging in societal affairs but also for securing training contracts and pupillage.

What opportunities do we offer our members?
We offer our members the opportunity to engage in discussion by attending our meetings and the chance to liaise and network with partners and trainees from our sponsor firms during our larger events.

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