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Seven Deadly Sins – the Law Student Way
Law school can be a sinful place. Examine your behavior over the past few years and tell us how many of these sins you’re guilty of...
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Survive Law
Mar 7, 20132 min read
Working Hardly: Talking like a Lawyer
The transition from normal person to lawyer also involves learning to talk the talk.
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Survive Law
Mar 6, 20132 min read
Beating Stress and Finding Balance: The Third Space
As a law student I often have trouble juggling my many commitments and switching between study time, family time and getting my brain in gea
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Survive Law
Mar 5, 20132 min read
The Great Font Debate: Picking the Best Typography for CVs and Assignments
Recently pondering the formatting of my resume and scrolling through articles about which font is the best, I discovered what can only be de
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Survive Law
Mar 3, 20133 min read
Perfectionism and the Law Student
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí Are you in the habit of setting yourself unattainable goals? You probab
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Survive Law
Mar 2, 20134 min read
Answers to Common First Year Questions
Where is the lecture hall? Am I supposed to call my lecturers by their first name? Why does every tutorial sound like it’s in a completely d
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Survive Law
Mar 1, 20133 min read
Staying Motivated Throughout your Law Degree
Five years ago when I began my degree I was excited and super keen to get started reading all those fabulous books and cases. I had celebrat
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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 28, 20132 min read
Why is Legal Research Important?
Whether you're in your first or last semester of your law degree, everyone is always telling you that everything is important: you have
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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
Feb 26, 20133 min read
Repeating a Subject
I had to repeat a first year subject in my second year. On the first day of uni I arrived at my seminar just in time, with most of the 40 st
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Survive Law
Feb 23, 20132 min read
Back to Law School Checklist
How did this happen? It seems like only yesterday that we were looking forward to the long (too short), hot (rainy), relaxing (work-filled)
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Survive Law
Feb 21, 20132 min read
Long Distance Law: Studying Law at Uni without being at Uni
Law school is hard. While that might be the most self-evident statement ever typed, spare a thought for the law student completing their deg
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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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Survive Law
Feb 19, 20133 min read
Why Law School Friends are Awesome
So, you think you can get through law school on your own without needing to make friends? Just go to class, sit there, takes notes and liste
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Survive Law
Feb 18, 20132 min read
Finding a Mentor in the Workplace
So you’ve finally graduated, found the job of your dreams and living the Boston Legal lifestyle that you thought would never happen. Well.
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Survive Law
Feb 17, 20132 min read
Why you should spend a Semester Abroad
Have you always thought about doing a semester abroad, but thought it was too difficult? If you can handle piles of paperwork (but heck – yo
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Survive Law
Feb 15, 20132 min read
Confessions of a First Year Clerk
After my final exams, I was exhausted and ready to begin a long holiday filled with doing absolutely nothing. That was until an email arrive
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Survive Law
Feb 14, 20133 min read
Contract Law and Your Love Life
While it may not be the most romantic way to look at it, no one can deny that a relationship is very much like a contract. There are parties
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