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Apr 17, 2019
2 min

Clerkships Index 2019/2020

With clerkship season looming, Survive Law has put together a quick index to help you plan ahead for what firms you're thinking about ap

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Isabel

Oct 31, 2017
3 min

How to Attack an Empty CV

If you're looking at your CV and feeling a little overwhelmed (or underwhelmed by what’s on it) there are few things you can try to beef

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Eat, Pray, Law: What's It like to Go on Exchange?

Isabel

Oct 23, 2017
3 min

Eat, Pray, Law: What's It like to Go on Exchange?

The prospect of exchange sounds exciting, but sometimes you need just that little bit more certainty before you can make a concrete decision

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Advice for Law Students: Parents’ Edition

Emily Kelly

Jan 16, 2017
3 min

Advice for Law Students: Parents’ Edition

We usually turn to lecturers, our law school buddies and law grads for advice when it comes to battling your way through law school. But wha

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Neeharika Maddula

Aug 11, 2016
3 min

KWM spills secrets to clerkship success

The clerkship application period is a special hell reserved for all penultimate students that dare to dream of a career in big-time commerci

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Advice I wish I received as a graduate law student…

Stephanie Fiteni

Jun 15, 2016
3 min

Advice I wish I received as a graduate law student…

Argh, this one kills me. So many memorandums, so much time wasted… I use to spend a long time doing extra research for cases or going over t

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Neeharika Maddula

Jun 1, 2016
2 min

5 Ted talks to up your interview game

I'm sure you've got plenty a link to Ted talks in the text-thread with your mother because she's just discovered Youtube and she

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Survive Law

May 31, 2016
2 min

Sydney Clerkship Masterlist 2016/17

Clerkship season has arrived in NSW! This handy guide has been put together to shed some light on the clerkship process and to help you to f

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Hima

Feb 22, 2016
3 min

Straight Law: Not so straightforward

More law students are opting towards doing double degrees these days and there are several reasons for this. If you’re currently studying a

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Stephanie Fiteni

Jan 27, 2016
2 min

Practicing after law school? Help!

One word: confounding. As I approached Internships and Clerkships, there was a sudden discord between how I thought the law profession would

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Jessica C

Nov 16, 2015
3 min

Clerkship Day #1: What to expect

The first day of any new job can be a bit nerve wracking. So when you're not a qualified lawyer, you're not used to getting out of b

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Golden rule for resumes: Short and professionally sweet.

Jessica C

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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“My tutor sucks” and other dangerous phrases

Neeharika Maddula

Sep 8, 2015
2 min

“My tutor sucks” and other dangerous phrases

As law students we know that words matter and that words can cost you (no, literally, we’re going to bill you by the hour). But sometimes th

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Steve

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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Surviving Assessable Class Participation

Natasha

Aug 25, 2015
4 min

Surviving Assessable Class Participation

Is there someone in your class who perfectly answers every question before your tutor even finishes asking it? Chances are you hate that guy

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Lessons learnt from my first year of law school

Hima

Aug 7, 2015
3 min

Lessons learnt from my first year of law school

Looking back at my first year of university, some things worked out great, but others not so much. Before diving into my second year, I trie

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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 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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Starting law school? Here are some things you should know

Breanna

Feb 24, 2015
2 min

Starting law school? Here are some things you should know

First off, congratulations! Maybe you smashed your high school exams and ended up at law school almost by accident, or maybe studying law is

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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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