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Clerkships Index 2019/2020
With clerkship season looming, Survive Law has put together a quick index to help you plan ahead for what firms you're thinking about ap
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Survive Law
Oct 31, 20173 min read
How to Attack an Empty CV
If you're looking at your CV and feeling a little overwhelmed (or underwhelmed by what’s on it) there are few things you can try to beef
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Survive Law
Oct 23, 20173 min read
Eat, Pray, Law: What's It like to Go on Exchange?
The prospect of exchange sounds exciting, but sometimes you need just that little bit more certainty before you can make a concrete decision
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Survive Law
Jan 16, 20173 min read
Advice for Law Students: Parents’ Edition
We usually turn to lecturers, our law school buddies and law grads for advice when it comes to battling your way through law school. But wha
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Survive Law
Aug 11, 20163 min read
KWM spills secrets to clerkship success
The clerkship application period is a special hell reserved for all penultimate students that dare to dream of a career in big-time commerci
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Survive Law
Jun 15, 20163 min read
Advice I wish I received as a graduate law student…
Argh, this one kills me. So many memorandums, so much time wasted… I use to spend a long time doing extra research for cases or going over t
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Survive Law
Jun 1, 20162 min read
5 Ted talks to up your interview game
I'm sure you've got plenty a link to Ted talks in the text-thread with your mother because she's just discovered Youtube and she
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Survive Law
May 31, 20162 min read
Sydney Clerkship Masterlist 2016/17
Clerkship season has arrived in NSW! This handy guide has been put together to shed some light on the clerkship process and to help you to f
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Survive Law
Feb 22, 20163 min read
Straight Law: Not so straightforward
More law students are opting towards doing double degrees these days and there are several reasons for this. If you’re currently studying a
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Survive Law
Jan 27, 20162 min read
Practicing after law school? Help!
One word: confounding. As I approached Internships and Clerkships, there was a sudden discord between how I thought the law profession would
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Survive Law
Nov 16, 20153 min read
Clerkship Day #1: What to expect
The first day of any new job can be a bit nerve wracking. So when you're not a qualified lawyer, you're not used to getting out of b
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Survive Law
Oct 13, 20152 min read
Golden rule for resumes: Short and professionally sweet.
Whether you are leaving the university nest and flying into the big world of scary jobs or you are looking for a casual pub job to cover tex
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Survive Law
Sep 8, 20152 min read
“My tutor sucks” and other dangerous phrases
As law students we know that words matter and that words can cost you (no, literally, we’re going to bill you by the hour). But sometimes th
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Survive Law
Aug 27, 20152 min read
Secret to Success? Think like a lawyer
If there’s anything I wish I’d known in my first year of law school it would be these two things: First, find the best coffee..
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Survive Law
Aug 25, 20154 min read
Surviving Assessable Class Participation
Is there someone in your class who perfectly answers every question before your tutor even finishes asking it? Chances are you hate that guy
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Survive Law
Aug 7, 20153 min read
Lessons learnt from my first year of law school
Looking back at my first year of university, some things worked out great, but others not so much. Before diving into my second year, I trie
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Survive Law
May 31, 20153 min read
How to Network when you don’t Know Anyone
No one likes that guy who casually name-drops that his father/mother/great aunt Agnes is/was a barrister/lawyer/High Court judge/ leader of
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Head Editor
Apr 28, 20153 min read
I want your job: Q&A with Andrew Crockett, Special Counsel at Whittens & McKeough
Andrew Crockett, special counsel at Whittens & McKeough, sheds some light on this intriguingly titled position and offers some perspecti
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Survive Law
Feb 24, 20152 min read
Starting law school? Here are some things you should know
First off, congratulations! Maybe you smashed your high school exams and ended up at law school almost by accident, or maybe studying law is
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Survive Law
Feb 12, 20152 min read
What to wear to a job interview
We all know that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but when you walk into a job interview, your interviewer will form an impression o
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