Survive Law
Getting Admitted: Practical Legal Training, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and Traineeships
Perhaps you've seen final year law students or recent graduates wandering around muttering acronyms like PLT and GDLP. At some stage ev
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Survive Law
May 14, 20122 min read
How to write an answer guide for law exams
Walking in to my first substantive law exam, I was sure I was ready. I had a painstakingly-prepared set of notes that covered every principl
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Survive Law
May 13, 20122 min read
Legally Witty: Funny Law Quotes
Here are a few legal quips to brighten a dull day of study!
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Survive Law
May 12, 20123 min read
Losing Faith in Law
As I near exam period each semester I begin to not only fret and drink a lot of iced tea, but I simultaneously decide that I’m going to eith
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Survive Law
May 9, 20122 min read
Apps and Websites for Caffeine-Loving Law Students
Caffeine and law students go together like my green highlighter and my succession law notes – it’s an intense but sometimes unhealthy relati
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Survive Law
May 9, 20123 min read
4 Grammar Mistakes You Should Stop Making
As law students we spend most of our time occupied with reading and writing and our future careers will be solely concerned with deriving me
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Survive Law
May 7, 20123 min read
The Joys of Procrastibaking
Since the dawn of legal education, or sometime shortly thereafter, law students discovered procrastination baking, or ‘procrastibaking’. It’
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Survive Law
May 7, 20121 min read
Stuff Law Students Don’t Say
Law students are a curious breed, and you’ll often hear them say the darndest things, but here are a few things you’ll probably never hear u
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Marie Hadley
May 5, 20122 min read
My First Courtroom Experience
Sitting on the train, surrounded by professionals in their corporate attire, for once I felt I didn’t stand out. Today I was joining them. T
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Survive Law
May 5, 20123 min read
Law Student Style
Growing ever more eclectic as the weeks roll by, here's how law students coherently combine fashion, Federalism and functionality.
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Survive Law
May 4, 20123 min read
Going Global: Should I go on International Exchange?
My study exchange adventure took me to University of Lapland, Finland in 2011. When I got home I signed up to tell other students at my univ
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Survive Law
May 3, 20122 min read
Working Hardly: The Underachiever’s Guide to CV Writing
CVs are about putting your best foot forward… but what if it feels like there isn’t much to work with? Obiter Ovum uses his powers of broad
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Marie Hadley
May 3, 20122 min read
Is the Pen Mightier than the Computer?
Yes, the pen trumps the sword, but the glowing, half-eaten apples and tap-tapping in my tutorials suggests that it’s losing the battle with
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Survive Law
May 2, 20122 min read
Learning the Hard Way: The Trials of Law School
It’s no secret that law school is kind of tricky. You think one thing and later find out that the exact opposite is actually the case. Maybe
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Survive Law
Apr 29, 20122 min read
The Guilt of a Law Student
Law student guilt. It’s a phenomenon that attacks law students everywhere, regardless of GPA or university. Consider this scenario: it’s you
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Survive Law
Apr 26, 20124 min read
There's No Place Like Home, but what if you want to Practice Law Somewhere Else?
Once you are admitted to practice law in one jurisdiction, you can't necessarily practice freely in another. Don't fret if hindsight
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Survive Law
Apr 24, 20122 min read
Why SYD2030 is my New Guilty Pleasure
For me, the new Australian webseries, SYD2030, is a little bit Boston Legal meets Gossip Girl. Set in a fictional Australian University, thi
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Survive Law
Apr 24, 20122 min read
The Baguette Guide to Law
I’m currently devouring a truly inspirational baguette, and realised many areas of law could be explained with reference to this wonder-sand
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Survive Law
Apr 23, 20122 min read
Being the Middle Child at Law School
That awkward moment when you step back into a classroom then realise that the students around you are barely out of high school. That really
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Survive Law
Apr 22, 20123 min read
A Law Student’s Guide to Social Situations
Law students often complain of art student envy: the feelings of jealousy you have when you see yet another Facebook status about how awesom
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