Careers

Aug 24, 2015
2 min

Working at the Magistrates' Court

Not many law students have the chance to get a behind-the scenes experience of a court. For the curious among you, the gist of it is paperwo

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Matthew

Aug 10, 2015
2 min

Interning with the Aurora Project

Canberra. The name that automatically dredges up memories of visiting Parliament House and the War Memorial on primary school excursions....

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Finding legal work experience in unlikely places

Meg

Aug 6, 2015
3 min

Finding legal work experience in unlikely places

“How can I get experience if you won’t give me a job?!” This is the question we all scream out after scrolling through the dozens of apparen

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Reyna

Jul 30, 2015
3 min

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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Meg

Jun 23, 2015
3 min

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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Kat Crossley

Jun 18, 2015
3 min

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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From Careers Fairs to Cover Letters: Mastering the Clerkship Application

Survive Law

Jun 17, 2015
6 min

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 pains...

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How to Network when you don’t Know Anyone

Angelique

May 31, 2015
3 min

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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I want your job: Q&A with Patricia Perlen, academic at Deakin University

Jess Awad

May 20, 2015
2 min

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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I want your job: Q&A with Andrew Crockett, Special Counsel at Whittens & McKeough

Reyna

Apr 28, 2015
3 min

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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Siobhan

Apr 15, 2015
3 min

Tips for Getting that Law Job

Is the job hunt getting you down? In a market that is flooded with students and graduates, you really do need to find a way to stand out fro

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Rachel

Apr 7, 2015
2 min

My Work Experience at Legal Aid

By the time you reach your mid-30s (as I have) you know that 80 percent of job opportunities are not advertised. Having recently been accept

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Kiran

Feb 12, 2015
2 min

What to wear to a job interview

We all know that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but when you walk into a job interview, your interviewer will form an impression o

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Leeor Adar

Feb 5, 2015
2 min

Lessons from working in a law firm

Snagging a law job is a sweet deal: being paid to do legal duties is interesting, and you get to see how the law and law firms function ‘in

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I Want Your Job: Q&A with Daniel Butler, DBA Lawyers

Kate F

Jan 6, 2015
3 min

I Want Your Job: Q&A with Daniel Butler, DBA Lawyers

Daniel Butler graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws. He worked in Chartered Accounting and

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I Want Your Job: Interview with Rachel French, Legal Counsel for Amatheon Agri

Kate F

Dec 16, 2014
3 min

I Want Your Job: Interview with Rachel French, Legal Counsel for Amatheon Agri

Rachel studied Arts/Law before completing a Master of Laws, specialising in international law. She is currently working in Berlin as the in-

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Dylan

Dec 3, 2014
2 min

Living in legal career limbo

In recent times there has been a proliferation of ominous news stories and opinion articles warning of the crippling job prospects faced by

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Sophia

Nov 19, 2014
2 min

Finding Future Career Opportunities

While practice areas such as property and tax are long-established areas of practice for lawyers, the areas of law that lawyers can work in

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Leeor Adar

Sep 26, 2014
2 min

Shadowing a Criminal Barrister

It was a beautiful September day when I found myself awkwardly smiling at a well-mannered defendant who was grinning right back at me.

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Kat Crossley

Sep 16, 2014
2 min

Career Overkill

It’s no secret that this isn’t exactly the ideal time to be a law graduate. The competition for jobs is fierce and it begins long before gra

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