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Summer Clerk Diary: Francis Wong, Cancer Council Legal and Financial Planning Referral Service
I have always wanted to apply the skills I developed at university at the community level in the not-for-profit sector, so when I discovered
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Survive Law
Jan 21, 20133 min read
Feeling Like a Law School Dinosaur
With my final semester as a law student approaching, I find myself pensively reflecting on the past half decade I have spent in law school.
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Survive Law
Jan 18, 20133 min read
Finding Work Experience as a Later Lawyer
I hate the term ‘later lawyer’. It just doesn’t sit well with me at all. It makes me feel older than I actually am – I’m only in my late mid
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Survive Law
Jan 17, 20132 min read
Behind the Scenes at a Law Firm: Working in Legal Support
While most students dream of landing that paralegal or law clerk position, I’m here to tell you that working in the legal industry in a supp
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Survive Law
Jan 16, 20133 min read
Take Your Time: The Benefits of going Slow with your Law Degree
We law students are an overachieving competitive bunch. It comes with the territory. We’re all pretty bright and have had to fight our way i
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Survive Law
Jan 15, 20132 min read
Summer Clerk Diary: Sophie Raynor, Anthony R Clarke & Associates
Not wanting to miss out on gaining valuable legal experience, last year I opted to apply for clerkships with smaller, boutique firms. While
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Survive Law
Jan 14, 20132 min read
Finding the Perfect Cup of Coffee
If you’re anything like me, it can sometimes be a struggle to stay awake when doing those weekly readings. Admittedly, it’s often because th
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Survive Law
Jan 13, 20132 min read
Working Hardly: Law Laughs
Studying law can leave you with a pretty academic sense of humour; something law-related that makes you laugh is great, but it’s even better
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Survive Law
Jan 12, 20132 min read
Book Review: Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Im
“Putting war criminals behind bars depends on the will of men and women, and especially men and women of the bar, to challenge the assumptio
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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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Head Editor
Jan 10, 20134 min read
Community Legal Stories: Volunteering in the Kimberley
The brutal Kimberley sun is bearing down, at least forty-eight degrees and threatening to fossilise me into the pavement. The cream pants I’
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Wenee Yap
Jan 7, 20132 min read
What Happened to the Law Graduates of the GFC?
November 2008. Recession was looming. Depression was threatening. The world, as always, was ending.
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Survive Law
Jan 7, 20131 min read
Working Hardly: Lawyer Jokes
Not only are exam marks due out at any moment, but also the holiday season is now officially upon us! At times like this, we all need a good
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Survive Law
Jan 6, 20132 min read
Book Review: Kill All the Lawyers by Michael Bradley
“We are an inevitable creation, like the prostitute and the priest.” Such is lawyer Michael Bradley’s amusing conclusion on the origins of l
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Survive Law
Jan 5, 20132 min read
Book Review: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
“If all the injustice it [the Chancery] has committed, and all the misery it has caused, could only be locked up with it, and the whole burn
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Survive Law
Jan 4, 20132 min read
I can't turn my law brain off!
From arguing your way out of trouble with double negatives, to using your old Contracts textbook as some light bedtime reading, sometimes th
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Survive Law
Jan 2, 20131 min read
Life After Law School
Ask a first year student where they expect to be one year after law school and the answer might be “interning at the United Nations” or “wor
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Head Editor
Jan 2, 20133 min read
Adventures of the Unluckiest Law Student
2012 ended quite fittingly for the unluckiest law student. In fact, the event that caused me several facial bruises and grazed hands is also
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Survive Law
Dec 31, 20121 min read
New Year’s Resolutions for Law Students
So the earth has made a full rotation around the sun again and it is time for those of us who believe in them to make New Year’s resolutions
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Survive Law
Dec 26, 20121 min read
Jingle Bells, Law Student Style
Happy Christmas, Survivors! We hope you have a great day filled with feasting and fun times! Here’s a law-inspired Christmas carol to get yo
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