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Survive Law
Aug 23, 20132 min read
Dealing with Clerkship Rejection
This can be a difficult time of year for penultimate year law students who’ve missed out on a clerkship. No one likes missing out, and even
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Survive Law
Aug 3, 20132 min read
Why it’s Okay not to Apply for Clerkships
Despite having my heart set on various other areas of law, I succumbed to peer pressure and applied to several firms, but I wish I had someo
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Survive Law
Aug 1, 20133 min read
How to Stand Out in the Job Market
“I’ll think about it later…” This is what I hear many students say when I ask them about their plans for after graduation. The idea of what
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Survive Law
Jul 24, 20132 min read
Public Policy Reform, Hospitals and Soup: My Internship at the Grattan Institute
This winter break I was fortunate enough to spend five weeks interning at the Grattan Institute, which is a public policy think tank. The In
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Survive Law
Jul 16, 20132 min read
Going Bush: Reasons to Start your Career in Rural Australia
Although the current state of the jobs market means that most law graduates have to cast a wide net when making graduate applications, worki
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Survive Law
Jul 16, 20132 min read
How to Get a Government Job
Ever wanted to have the chance to work on policy development and change the ‘system’ from the inside? Working in government can be very rewa
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Survive Law
Jul 13, 20133 min read
Celebs and Schmoozing to Studying Law: Q&A with Rebecca Halpin
Before law school, Rebecca Halpin worked in the hectic world of sports publicity. Now she’s swapped talent management, music festivals, film
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Survive Law
Jul 12, 20133 min read
When is the Best Time for Postgrad Study?
You’ve nearly finished your LLB or JD and you’re counting down the weeks until you can get out there in the ‘real world’ and never have to w
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Survive Law
Jul 11, 20132 min read
Questions to Ask in a Job Interview
Although you've probably been practicing your answers to some common job interview questions, you'll also have an opportunity to ask
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Survive Law
Jul 2, 20132 min read
Reforming the Legal Profession: Yea or Nay?
As a Victorian lawyer who wants to practice across Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, the idea of national regul
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Survive Law
Jun 20, 20132 min read
LinkedIn for Law Students
If you're already on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, throwing another social network into the mix shouldn't be difficult. After all
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Survive Law
Jun 16, 20132 min read
How to Find Holiday Work Experience… and do I even want it?
How do you find holiday work in the law - especially when you've never worked in the law before and every ad (even the entry-level ones)
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Survive Law
Jun 6, 20133 min read
To Lawyer, or not to Lawyer: Finding Alternative Roles in the Legal Industry
Unlike the law students who were lucky to have secured graduate legal employment, I was unfortunately watching the golden grad employment bo
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Survive Law
Apr 30, 20132 min read
Learning Client Interviewing
As a law student, at some point in the rapidly approaching future, you are probably going to deal with a real life client. Your first client
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Survive Law
Apr 24, 20133 min read
“I don’t know what to do with myself”: My Post-Law Life
I shudder as I see the flashing icon of a fellow law graduate pop up on my Facebook. Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely adore my fellow law al
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Survive Law
Apr 1, 20133 min read
Graduate Job Hunting… and Angry Birds
You thought that property law was the most horrific thing you had ever done, didn’t you? You thought that after 1,000 pages of equity and tr
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Survive Law
Mar 10, 20133 min read
My Native Title Internship with The Aurora Project
For five weeks over my Christmas holidays in 2012, I undertook an Aurora Project internship at the North Queensland Land Council (NQLC) - th
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Survive Law
Feb 28, 20132 min read
Summer Clerk Diary: Bob Liang, Herbert Geer
I recently completed a summer clerkship at Herbert Geer in Sydney. I wasn’t sure what to expect, as this was my first exposure to commercial
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Survive Law
Feb 21, 20132 min read
A Day in the Life of a Junior Lawyer
6:30am: Alarm goes off. Hit snooze. Getting up and organised can wait for another half hour...
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Survive Law
Feb 20, 20132 min read
Summer Clerk Diary: Hamish McAvaney, Linklaters
In November/December 2012, I was lucky enough to travel to the UK to undertake a four-week clerkship with global law firm Linklaters in thei
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