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Law School Blues
My first experience of depression happened at 16. Family and childhood issues from a young age had changed my cheerful, blissfully ignorant
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Survive Law
May 7, 20143 min read
Mental Health Resources for Law Students
Law as a profession has one of the highest rates of depression and anxiety of any occupation, and it all starts in law school. As law studen
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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 5, 20143 min read
How to Make an Exam Answer Template
Because exams are just over a month away, here are some tips to help you make an awesome answer template...
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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
Apr 22, 20144 min read
The Art of Advocacy: Twenty Tips for your First Court Appearance
I have had the immense good fortune to work as a bench clerk for numerous Magistrates hearing thousands of cases across the summary jurisdic
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Survive Law
Apr 21, 20143 min read
Work Experience Ideas for First Years
You’ve most likely heard the worrying news that now is one of the toughest times in recent history to be searching for a graduate legal job.
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Survive Law
Apr 18, 20141 min read
Working Hardly: Signs you were meant to be a Lawyer
Some people were just meant to be lawyers. But how did they know that law was their calling? Here are some tell tale signs that you were mea
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Survive Law
Apr 17, 20144 min read
Transitioning from Law School to Law Firm: Q&A with Chris Hargreaves, Senior Associate
Chris Hargreaves started his legal career as a clerk in a small law firm, before being admitted as a lawyer in 2005. He now works as a Senio
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Survive Law
Apr 15, 20141 min read
UQ Wins Jessup Moot
The University of Queensland is celebrating after winning the 55th annual Jessup International Moot in Washington D.C on Sunday. Students Em
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Survive Law
Apr 15, 20143 min read
My First Work Experience Experience
I was in the passenger seat of my friend’s car when I got the phone call telling me my application for work experience at a volunteer legal
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Survive Law
Apr 14, 20143 min read
Five Tips for Writing Awesome Assignments
We have come to the time of semester where most students are planning on getting their assignments under control before the downhill run to
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Head Editor
Apr 11, 20142 min read
My Oxford University Experience
To be honest, there aren’t many things that would persuade me to spend my holidays at university, but the chance to study at Oxford Universi
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Survive Law
Apr 11, 20143 min read
I Want Your Job: Q&A with Alan Farrar, Estate Planning Lawyer
After completing his law degree, Alan Farrar spent two years working in a suburban practice before pursing a non-legal career in business fo
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Survive Law
Apr 8, 20143 min read
How to Find the Ratio Decidendi
Finding the ratio decidendi of a case has to be one of the trickiest skills to master at law school.
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Survive Law
Apr 8, 20142 min read
See You in Court: Why Court Visits are a must for Law Students
Being in law school sometimes leaves you feeling a bit removed from what you are actually working towards. Maybe that’s why we love watching
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Survive Law
Apr 7, 20143 min read
Academic Kidnapping: Plagiarism and how to Avoid it
Plagiarism. The wrongful appropriation of another author’s words, thoughts, ideas or expressions and the representation of them as your own
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Survive Law
Apr 3, 20143 min read
Looking out for the Signs of Depression and Anxiety
We all know that being a law student can be stressful. However, when the demands of law school are combined with the general stresses of dai
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Survive Law
Apr 2, 20141 min read
Thomsons Lawyers and Herbert Geer Announce Merger
Australian law firms Thomsons Lawyers and Herbert Geer have merged, the two firms announced on Monday. The new firm, Thomson Geer Lawyers, h
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