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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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First Year v Final Year Me: My Law School Transformation

Jennifer

Dec 17, 2014
5 min

First Year v Final Year Me: My Law School Transformation

I have a photo of myself taken on the day I found out I was really doing it; I was going to law school. My skin is clear, my face is beaming

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Jessica C

Dec 7, 2014
3 min

A Law Grad Wanders Around the World

Midway through 2013, I was about to finish my undergraduate law degree. I was starting my Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and I was bored

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Sophia

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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Holly

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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Signs You’re in Your Final Year of University

Angelique

Apr 28, 2014
3 min

Signs You’re in Your Final Year of University

I’m now at the business end of my university degree. Five years seemed like such a long time, but at the risk of sounding old, I’ve only jus

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Marie Iskander

Mar 10, 2014
2 min

The Light at the End of a Law Degree

When I started my law degree five years ago, I was afraid that I wasn’t as bright as my peers because I was a transfer student. When I got i

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That Feeling you get when you Finish your Law Degree

Nicholas Plummer

Jan 2, 2014
2 min

That Feeling you get when you Finish your Law Degree

A month ago I had the fortunate experience of being able to announce to the world that I had finally finished my law degree. It is still tak

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Domenica

Jul 26, 2013
2 min

Taking a Post-Uni Gap Year

One of my professors told me that the best time to be in university is when the economy is in recession. While there’s some debate about the

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Staying Motivated in your Final Year(s) of Law School

Laura Falkner

May 21, 2013
2 min

Staying Motivated in your Final Year(s) of Law School

With the end finally in sight, it seems strange that staying motivated in your final lap of the law school race would be difficult. This sho

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“I don’t know what to do with myself”: My Post-Law Life

Chris K

Apr 24, 2013
3 min

“I don’t know what to do with myself”: My Post-Law Life

I shudder as I see the flashing icon of a fellow law graduate pop up on my Facebook. Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely adore my fellow law al

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Peter

Jan 21, 2013
3 min

Feeling Like a Law School Dinosaur

With my final semester as a law student approaching, I find myself pensively reflecting on the past half decade I have spent in law school.

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Staying Motivated in your Final Semester of Law

Jerome

Aug 13, 2012
2 min

Staying Motivated in your Final Semester of Law

If the phrase “light at the end of the tunnel” is being thrown around a lot at the moment, you must be in your final semester of your law de

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Tammy

Oct 4, 2011
3 min

It’s the Final Countdown…

I was flipping through my diary and doing my usual panic-because-everything-is-due-in-a-few-weeks-then-it’s-exams, and then I realised that

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