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Survive Law
Nov 30, 20164 min read
Q & A With Australia’s Youngest Law Graduate, Jozef Borja-Erece
While most of us were flailing our way through Foundations of Law at 18-years-old, Jozef Borja-Erece was busy becoming the youngest person t
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Survive Law
Jun 22, 20162 min read
I don't want to be a conventional lawyer
“I’m Leanne, and I’m in my second last semester.” I announced to my first Property and Securities tutorial just a few weeks ago… “When I gra
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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
Apr 19, 20162 min read
Making the most of limbo
“Just graduated? Congratulations! What are you up to? Oh, you’ve not found work yet? It’s tough out there! What are you doing in the mean ti
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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
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 13, 20153 min read
Surviving the Post-Graduation Blues
You’ve just completed your degree, hooray! Somewhere between the trauma of finals and the excitement of being invited to graduate, you may h
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Survive Law
Dec 17, 20145 min read
First Year v Final Year Me: My Law School Transformation
I have a photo of myself taken on the day I found out I was really doing it; I was going to law school. My skin is clear, my face is beaming
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Survive Law
Dec 7, 20143 min read
A Law Grad Wanders Around the World
Midway through 2013, I was about to finish my undergraduate law degree. I was starting my Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and I was bored
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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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Survive Law
Nov 19, 20142 min read
Finding Future Career Opportunities
While practice areas such as property and tax are long-established areas of practice for lawyers, the areas of law that lawyers can work in
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Survive Law
Sep 16, 20142 min read
Career Overkill
It’s no secret that this isn’t exactly the ideal time to be a law graduate. The competition for jobs is fierce and it begins long before gra
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Survive Law
Jun 26, 20142 min read
The Trials of a Mature Age Law Graduate
As a mature age student I always had a positive attitude towards finding a job because I honestly and sincerely believe that there is a plac
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Survive Law
May 6, 20142 min read
I Want Your Job: Q&A with Kate Phillips, Legal Officer, Attorney-General’s Department
Kate Phillips graduated from the Australian National University in 2010. She began work as a paralegal at the Australian Capital Territory G
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Survive Law
May 1, 20143 min read
Law Grad Employment: Hard Truths from a Managing Partner
Every year thousands of Australian law students graduate into a market which cannot absorb more than a fraction of them. Clearly there is a
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Survive Law
Apr 28, 20143 min read
Signs You’re in Your Final Year of University
I’m now at the business end of my university degree. Five years seemed like such a long time, but at the risk of sounding old, I’ve only jus
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Survive Law
Mar 10, 20142 min read
The Light at the End of a Law Degree
When I started my law degree five years ago, I was afraid that I wasn’t as bright as my peers because I was a transfer student. When I got i
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Survive Law
Jan 2, 20142 min read
That Feeling you get when you Finish your Law Degree
A month ago I had the fortunate experience of being able to announce to the world that I had finally finished my law degree. It is still tak
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Survive Law
Dec 11, 20132 min read
Graduate Job Prospects a Leading Cause of Law Student Stress: Survey
If you’re worried about what you’ll do for work when you finish law school, you’re not alone. Uncertain job prospects after leaving law scho
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Survive Law
Nov 11, 20133 min read
So You Married a Law Student…
For the last eight years I have been married to a great woman, my best friend and co-conspirator. For the past six of those years, and for r
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