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    My Work Experience at Legal Aid
    Survive Law
    • 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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    What to wear to a job interview
    Survive Law
    • 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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    Lessons from working in a law firm
    Survive Law
    • 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
    Survive Law
    • 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
    Survive Law
    • 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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    Living in legal career limbo
    Survive Law
    • 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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    Finding Future Career Opportunities
    Survive Law
    • 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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    Shadowing a Criminal Barrister
    Survive Law
    • 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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    Career Overkill
    Survive Law
    • 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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    Another Reason to Volunteer
    Survive Law
    • Sep 12, 2014
    • 2 min

    Another Reason to Volunteer

    Undeniably, volunteering is a great thing to do and there are numerous ways that you can donate your time and expertise. In our law school l
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    Are you really interested?
    Survive Law
    • Aug 13, 2014
    • 3 min

    Are you really interested?

    You’re in the throes of applying for law jobs. These are the hallowed days of words majestically blurring into each other in the search for
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    I didn’t get a clerkship… now what?
    Survive Law
    • Aug 12, 2014
    • 3 min

    I didn’t get a clerkship… now what?

    You studied law because you’re too clever and sexy to be a mere accountant. Or worse, auditor. And let’s not even get started on dentistry.
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    My Aurora Internship
    Survive Law
    • Aug 4, 2014
    • 3 min

    My Aurora Internship

    The concept of forsaking your entire winter holiday to undertake an unpaid work experience placement might not seem particularly appealing,
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    Law and Labradors: My Work Experience at the RSPCA
    Survive Law
    • Jul 15, 2014
    • 2 min

    Law and Labradors: My Work Experience at the RSPCA

    Earlier this year I was lucky to spend two weeks volunteering at the RSPCA, working with a prosecutor of animal cruelty charges. Each state
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    I want your job: Q&A with Susan Smith, Coordinator of Sydney Women’s Court Advocacy Service
    Survive Law
    • Jul 8, 2014
    • 4 min

    I want your job: Q&A with Susan Smith, Coordinator of Sydney Women’s Court Advocacy Service

    Susan Smith is the coordinator of Sydney Women’s Court Advocacy Service (SWCAS), which assists women and children who come to court to seek
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    The Trials of a Mature Age Law Graduate
    Survive Law
    • Jun 26, 2014
    • 2 min

    The Trials of a Mature Age Law Graduate

    As a mature age student I always had a positive attitude towards finding a job because I honestly and sincerely believe that there is a plac
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    My Internship Experience at the Department of Juvenile Justice
    Survive Law
    • Jun 24, 2014
    • 3 min

    My Internship Experience at the Department of Juvenile Justice

    I’m four years into my law and criminology degrees and I’ll be honest, I still don’t really know where I want to go. My university has a uni
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    Don’t be Mike Ross: Getting Admitted as a Lawyer
    Survive Law
    • Jun 10, 2014
    • 3 min

    Don’t be Mike Ross: Getting Admitted as a Lawyer

    It's admission time. Because we can't all be like Mike Ross, most of us will actually need to prove that we are admitted lawyers bef
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    Dealing with Penultimate Year Panic
    Survive Law
    • May 29, 2014
    • 3 min

    Dealing with Penultimate Year Panic

    Since your first year of law school most adults/lawyers/distant family members have probably been asking you “what do you want to do with yo
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    I want your job: Q&A with Dominic Esposito, Suburban Lawyer
    Survive Law
    • May 13, 2014
    • 3 min

    I want your job: Q&A with Dominic Esposito, Suburban Lawyer

    Dominic Esposito is a sole practitioner in small firm in suburban Melbourne. After graduating he started work for a suburban practice dealin
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