Blog | survivelaw

Mar 9, 2018
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Are Law Schools Out of Touch?

Many law schools are still dominated by old, somewhat outdated course structures and electives. While this structure offers students with a

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Neeharika Maddula

Aug 22, 2016
3 min

PLT in Cambodia

Uninspired by your PLT prospects? What if I told you you could complete your work experience component in Cambodia? Read on for Chloe's

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Bianca Anstis

Mar 31, 2016
3 min

What I wish I knew as a first year

From time to time, we all realise there are things we wish we'd known. Bianca has compiled a list of them to make these moments few and

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Law Without Walls: Changing legal practice as we know it

Neeharika Maddula

Mar 1, 2016
3 min

Law Without Walls: Changing legal practice as we know it

Earlier this year, University of Sydney law students Claudia Sheridan and Sandra Hu travelled to Madrid to work on innovative solutions to t

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Jess

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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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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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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Expectation v Reality: My First Weeks of Law

Rosalinda

Aug 11, 2014
2 min

Expectation v Reality: My First Weeks of Law

I have just had the pleasure of commencing law school. I'm glad to report that I wasn't singled out in my first class to answer an e

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Pauline

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

Cameron

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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Susan

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

Mandy

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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Surviving the Semester when Everything goes Wrong

Zahra

Jun 16, 2014
3 min

Surviving the Semester when Everything goes Wrong

My semester started with all the usual good intentions. I was feeling super positive about my final year and determined to ace the six units

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Marie Iskander

May 12, 2014
2 min

Why you should Work and Study Less

As a Type A perfectionist law student, I’m never convinced that my best is good enough. I’m of the mindset that working and studying late, s

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Cameron

Apr 21, 2014
3 min

Work Experience Ideas for First Years

You’ve most likely heard the worrying news that now is one of the toughest times in recent history to be searching for a graduate legal job.

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Emily

Apr 15, 2014
3 min

My First Work Experience Experience

I was in the passenger seat of my friend’s car when I got the phone call telling me my application for work experience at a volunteer legal

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Bethany-Kate

Apr 11, 2014
2 min

My Oxford University Experience

To be honest, there aren’t many things that would persuade me to spend my holidays at university, but the chance to study at Oxford Universi

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My Summer School Experience: The Verdict

Jasmin G

Mar 4, 2014
2 min

My Summer School Experience: The Verdict

I chose to do summer school simply because I had nothing planned for the holidays and didn’t want to waste another three months being unprod

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Cameron Ritchie

Feb 6, 2014
3 min

Summer Intern Diary: Cameron Ritchie, Hewlett-Packard

My Hewlett-Packard internship is unlike any other I’ve experienced, or heard of, in many ways. This internship introduced me to a very speci

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Jennifer

Jan 19, 2014
3 min

My Mooting Nightmare

This is absolutely 100% a true story. A few semesters ago at a campus far away, I completed a witness examination moot. The preparation peri

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