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When your law degree teaches you that you don’t want to be a lawyer
I’ve learnt a lot during my time at law school. While some of it is on par with the Pythagoras theorem in terms of its relevance, I’ve certa
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Survive Law
Sep 19, 20152 min read
Do your marks really matter after law school?
The reality is, your marks matter – but mainly only to get your foot in the door. This includes clerkships, graduate opportunities at govern
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Survive Law
Sep 3, 20153 min read
How to turn your internship into a job
I am in the enviable position of having left my part-time, low wage job in retail for part-time work at the community legal centre where I i
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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, 20152 min read
#NewLaw: The future of legal services?
Fixed fees, lower overheads, increased job flexibility, smarter technologies and the absence of a competitive partnership model – is it too
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Survive Law
Aug 24, 20152 min read
Working at the Magistrates' Court
Not many law students have the chance to get a behind-the scenes experience of a court. For the curious among you, the gist of it is paperwo
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Survive Law
Aug 6, 20153 min read
Finding legal work experience in unlikely places
“How can I get experience if you won’t give me a job?!” This is the question we all scream out after scrolling through the dozens of apparen
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Jul 30, 20153 min read
Starting your legal career overseas
High-flying company executives are not the only ones who get to travel abroad as part of their careers. Law offers numerous opportunities to
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Survive Law
Jun 23, 20153 min read
You’ve got a Law Degree... Now what?
It was once the case that law students had the luxury of choosing between numerous firms, now each firm has its choice of hundreds of studen
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Survive Law
Jun 18, 20153 min read
Tips and Tricks for your First Law Job
So you’ve got your first law job and you’re keen to put some of that legal learning into practice. If you’ve never worked in a law firm befo
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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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Survive Law
May 20, 20152 min read
I want your job: Q&A with Patricia Perlen, academic at Deakin University
Patricia Perlen is an associate lecturer at the School of Law at Melbourne’s Deakin University. I caught up with Patricia to learn more abou
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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
Apr 15, 20153 min read
Tips for Getting that Law Job
Is the job hunt getting you down? In a market that is flooded with students and graduates, you really do need to find a way to stand out fro
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Survive Law
Apr 7, 20152 min read
My Work Experience at Legal Aid
By the time you reach your mid-30s (as I have) you know that 80 percent of job opportunities are not advertised. Having recently been accept
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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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Survive Law
Feb 5, 20152 min read
Lessons from working in a law firm
Snagging a law job is a sweet deal: being paid to do legal duties is interesting, and you get to see how the law and law firms function ‘in
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Survive Law
Jan 6, 20153 min read
I Want Your Job: Q&A with Daniel Butler, DBA Lawyers
Daniel Butler graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws. He worked in Chartered Accounting and
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Survive Law
Dec 16, 20143 min read
I Want Your Job: Interview with Rachel French, Legal Counsel for Amatheon Agri
Rachel studied Arts/Law before completing a Master of Laws, specialising in international law. She is currently working in Berlin as the in-
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Survive Law
Dec 3, 20142 min read
Living in legal career limbo
In recent times there has been a proliferation of ominous news stories and opinion articles warning of the crippling job prospects faced by
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