You may feel like there are no opportunities out there for you and that no one is willing to take on someone with no ‘real’ legal understand

Every year students migrate from Auckland, Canterbury, Hamilton and Dunedin to participate in the annual government summer internship. These

One of the initiatives that came out of the Budget 2016-17 was the Prepare-Trial-Hire (PaTH) Programme, designed to help young job-seekers m

Holly spent her summer as an intern in the Equality Branch of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in the Victorian Government. Here she is

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

Canberra. The name that automatically dredges up memories of visiting Parliament House and the War Memorial on primary school excursions. A place that immediately conjures vivid imagery of fireworks, Lake Burley Griffin and inescapable roundabouts. But Canberra is also home to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. In 2015 I was fortunate enough to do a social science internship at AIATSIS as part of the Aurora Internship Program. AIATSIS i

The only thing between you and a clerkship is several information sessions/ careers fairs/ networking events, hours of research and painstaking application preparation, and (hopefully) a few interviews. Let’s get started! Pre-Clerkship Events The start of clerkship season is filled with opportunities to learn about prospective employers and the clerkship programs on offer. Law careers fairs occur in most major cities between March and May each year and are a great way to meet

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

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

Fluorescent green foliage, rusty red soil, blackened tree trunks, massive burnt orange rock cliffs, waterfalls, natural pools, gorges, long

Don’t let your year level discourage you from getting involved in the legal industry early. There are plenty of ways to wade into the ocean

Dear Intern Diary, It’s day two of my internship and I’ve somehow convinced myself that I have an acquired brain injury. No matter how many

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

This winter break I was fortunate enough to spend five weeks interning at the Grattan Institute, which is a public policy think tank. The In

For five weeks over my Christmas holidays in 2012, I undertook an Aurora Project internship at the North Queensland Land Council (NQLC) - th

Last year the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Strasbourg, France received its first Australian intern. That l

Last week Survive Law reported that the Fair Work Ombudsman had partnered with academics from the University of Adelaide to examine unpaid w

If you’re interested in a career in international law, an internship is often a great way to get started. UTS JD student, Jock Steel, talks