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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
Jul 17, 20152 min read
Eat, Sleep, Law, Repeat: Caring for Yourself in Law School
I once heard that law school was “a marathon, not a sprint”, but now that I'm in my fourth year, I’ve found that studying law is more li
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Survive Law
Jul 10, 20151 min read
The College of Law to run Survive Law
Survive Law is very excited to announce its new custodians, The College of Law! The College is Australia's biggest provider of practical...
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Survive Law
Jul 1, 20152 min read
Failing: The Last Law School Taboo
The one thing we law students don't seem to talk about is failing. Let's face it, sometimes clever, educated, hard working students
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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
Jun 17, 20156 min read
From Careers Fairs to Cover Letters: Mastering the Clerkship Application
The only thing between you and a clerkship is several information sessions/ careers fairs/ networking events, hours of research and...
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Survive Law
Jun 12, 20152 min read
The Law of Diminishing Marks
The law of diminishing marks says that the first few marks in an exam question are also the easiest to achieve. The further you wade into th
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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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Survive Law
May 19, 20154 min read
Using Flash Cards for Law Exam Revision
If it were possible, I would marry flash cards. I love them that much! Many of us used them in primary school to learn vocabulary and times
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Survive Law
May 13, 20153 min read
Losing your Law Student Mojo: Dealing with Law School Restlessness
At the start of uni, everything is exciting and anything is possible. But as the semesters march on, the idealism often fades and the restle
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Survive Law
May 11, 20153 min read
Want to run Survive Law?
Hey Survivors, Survive Law is looking for a new home! That’s right – we’re putting out the call for the next generation of law nerds to take
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Survive Law
May 7, 20152 min read
Law Student Undercover: The Pros and Cons of an Online Degree
I’ve always wondered what life would have been like as an online learner, contemplating discussions in student forums or listening to...
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Survive Law
May 5, 20153 min read
How to Make a Study Timetable for Exams
Uh-oh. It’s that time of semester. You’ve spent a little too much time watching re-runs of How I Met Your Mother and now exams are only...
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Survive Law
May 4, 20152 min read
Taking the plunge into postgrad study
Do you want to attend another graduation and wear an even fancier robe? Do you want to explore more specific areas of the law than just the
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Survive Law
May 1, 20151 min read
The world’s best law schools revealed
The latest ranking of the world’s best law schools has been released and 17 Australian law faculties have made the list. Unsurprisingly,...
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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 22, 20153 min read
How to get your Motivation Back
You were so keen at the start of semester, so motivated. Somewhere along the line that fizzled out, and you could really use some motivation
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Survive Law
Apr 20, 20151 min read
18-year-old becomes one of Australia’s Youngest Law Graduates
When he collected his testamur at the University of Southern Queensland last Friday, Jozef Borja-Erece became one of Australia’s youngest ev
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