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LinkedIn: Dos and Don’ts
LinkedIn is a great way to grow and expand your professional network within your field and abroad. You never know when someone that you'
Survive Law
- Dec 10, 2015
- 3 min
I want your job: CLC Lawyer, Chimpo Bulawayo
One of the most diverse and challenging places to work at is a Community Legal Centre (CLC). Volunteering at the Northern Suburbs Community
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Survive Law
- Oct 26, 2015
- 2 min
22k Problems but a job ain’t one
There once was a magical job advertisement that would help solve the lack of employment opportunities for law graduates. Alas, there’s a cat
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Survive Law
- Oct 13, 2015
- 2 min
Golden rule for resumes: Short and professionally sweet.
Whether you are leaving the university nest and flying into the big world of scary jobs or you are looking for a casual pub job to cover tex
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Survive Law
- Oct 8, 2015
- 3 min
I want your job: Criminal Defence Lawyer, Jessie Smith
Jessie Smith is a criminal defence lawyer at Stary Norton Halphen but outside her legal career, Jessie manages a fair-trade business called
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Survive Law
- Sep 19, 2015
- 2 min
Do your marks really matter after law school?
The reality is, your marks matter – but mainly only to get your foot in the door. This includes clerkships, graduate opportunities at govern
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Survive Law
- Sep 3, 2015
- 3 min
How to turn your internship into a job
I am in the enviable position of having left my part-time, low wage job in retail for part-time work at the community legal centre where I i
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Survive Law
- Aug 27, 2015
- 2 min
Secret to Success? Think like a lawyer
If there’s anything I wish I’d known in my first year of law school it would be these two things: First, find the best coffee..
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Survive Law
- Aug 25, 2015
- 2 min
#NewLaw: The future of legal services?
Fixed fees, lower overheads, increased job flexibility, smarter technologies and the absence of a competitive partnership model – is it too
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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Head Editor
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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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...
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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Head Editor
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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