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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Many law schools are still dominated by old, somewhat outdated course structures and electives.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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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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 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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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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Survive Law
- 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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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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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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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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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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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Survive Law
- 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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