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Tips for Legal Drafting Assignments: Q&A with Sonya Willis
Survive Law chatted with civil procedure lecturer Sonya Willis about how to approach legal drafting.
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Survive Law
Aug 21, 20133 min read
Tips for your First Negotiation Competition
Have you recently signed up for your law society’s negotiation tournament? If you’re feeling a bit unsure about how to prepare or how to...
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Survive Law
Aug 6, 20132 min read
How to Ace a Reflective Journal Assignment
The first time I was faced with a reflective journal as an assessment item, I wasn’t sure what it was or how to approach it. Plus it seems l
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Survive Law
Jul 30, 20132 min read
Starting Law School? Tips for your First Semester of Law
I’m now in my second last year of my law degree and looking back on my course, there are a few things that I wish I had done differently...
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Survive Law
May 24, 20132 min read
How to Prepare for your First Law Exams
Several weeks into the first year of university and you feel as though you’ve got it all sorted out. You know which lectures you can afford
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Survive Law
May 22, 20132 min read
Time Management Tips
Balancing the competing demands of law and life can be incredibly difficult, especially around exam time. Time management will mean somethin
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Survive Law
Apr 18, 20132 min read
Five Tips for Better Reading
Law is all about reading; quite a lot of reading, in fact. Unfortunately they haven't invented those nifty things from the Matrix that j
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Survive Law
Apr 5, 20133 min read
Ways to Bully Yourself Into Studying
To avoid- or, let's be honest here - minimise procrastination, here are a few strategies that I use to bully myself into studying.
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Survive Law
Apr 3, 20133 min read
Five Tips for Making Study Sessions more Exciting
At the start of semester, there’s nothing more exciting than getting back into all of those readings and assessments… right? But once you’re
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Survive Law
Mar 14, 20132 min read
Tips for your First ‘Serious’ Job
So you’ve got yourself a job. And I mean a job job. You’ve landed something that’s more than babysitting the neighbour’s kid or helping your
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Survive Law
Mar 13, 20132 min read
Tips for Surviving a Boring Lecture
The lights begin to dim as you look to the projector and your lecture commences. Time seems to have slowed to a crawl. The lecturer's mo
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Survive Law
Feb 27, 20133 min read
Ten Tips for Surviving Law School
Law school can be an overwhelming jumble of convoluted readings, hard-to-find ratios, computer crashes and late nights, but there are heaps
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Survive Law
Jan 11, 20132 min read
5 Tips for Summer School Success
Attending summer school while everyone is out enjoying the sun doesn’t sound like an ideal way to enjoy the break. The weather is hardly con
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Survive Law
Nov 27, 20123 min read
Four Mooting Pitfalls to Avoid
It’s no surprise that mooting is one of the most popular extra-curricular activities at law school. Moots are a great way to improve your co
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Survive Law
Sep 26, 20123 min read
Train your Brain: Memory Tips and Tricks
Here are just a few tips on how to prepare for exams based on what psychology tells us about memory...
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Survive Law
Sep 13, 20123 min read
How to get your First Law Job
Breaking into the legal industry is not the easiest thing to do, but once you're in (and have that all important experience) you'll
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Survive Law
Sep 11, 20122 min read
How to Prepare for a Tutorial at the Last Minute
Needed to catch up on the latest episode of Suits? Participated in a procrastibaking marathon? Spent more than a few minutes giggling at mem
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Survive Law
Aug 29, 20123 min read
Ten Ways to Improve your Class Presentations
Remember when it was totally uncool to know how to do stuff on a computer? These days, you’ll be left behind if you don't know how to sh
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Survive Law
Jul 27, 20123 min read
The Best Extra-Curricular Activities for Law Students
Although our lives are textbooks, the constitution, post-its and memories of the time we met Justice Kirby, even law students need to take t
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Survive Law
Jun 19, 20124 min read
How to get Honours in Law
This is an article for all you later-year students currently trying to work out the mysterious world of the law school honours system. Here
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