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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
Jan 11, 20162 min read


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

Survive Law
Dec 11, 20153 min read


Controlling mental monsters
‘It’s too difficult’. ‘I’m not smart enough’. ‘Everybody hates me’. Do any of these thoughts sound familiar? Psychologists call these types

Survive Law
Oct 27, 20152 min read


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

Survive Law
Oct 27, 20152 min read


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

Survive Law
Sep 3, 20153 min read


#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

Survive Law
Aug 26, 20152 min read


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

Head Editor
Jul 31, 20153 min read


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

Survive Law
May 21, 20152 min read


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

Survive Law
Jan 7, 20153 min read


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

Survive Law
Nov 19, 20142 min read


My Aurora Internship
The concept of forsaking your entire winter holiday to undertake an unpaid work experience placement might not seem particularly appealing,

Survive Law
Aug 5, 20143 min read


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

Survive Law
Jul 16, 20142 min read


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

Survive Law
Jul 9, 20144 min read


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

Survive Law
Jun 25, 20143 min read


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

Survive Law
May 13, 20143 min read


I Want Your Job: Q&A with Alan Farrar, Estate Planning Lawyer
After completing his law degree, Alan Farrar spent two years working in a suburban practice before pursing a non-legal career in business fo

Survive Law
Apr 11, 20143 min read


My Volunteer Experience with the Environmental Defenders Office
From about half-way through my first year of law I was sure that I wanted a career in environmental law. I’d heard a lot about the Environme

Survive Law
Mar 26, 20142 min read


I want your job: Q&A with Tony French, Notary Public
Tony French is a sole practitioner from Melbourne who specialises in property, wills and estates and notarial work. Tony spoke to Survive La

Survive Law
Mar 21, 20142 min read


Five weeks in The Kimberley: My Native Title Internship with the Aurora Project
Fluorescent green foliage, rusty red soil, blackened tree trunks, massive burnt orange rock cliffs, waterfalls, natural pools, gorges, long

Survive Law
Mar 19, 20143 min read


Summer Intern Diary: Zoee Bradley, Shine Lawyers
I walked into the shiny foyer full of trepidation. Impressively dressed men and women waltzed into the elevators with a sense of purpose. Th

Head Editor
Feb 20, 20143 min read
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