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Watching Legal TV Shows: Five Common Law Student Reactions
Suits, Rake, Boston Legal, Law & Order – for law students, watching a legal TV show is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Here are five things

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Jun 7, 20132 min read


Working Hardly: Funny Latin Phrases for Law Student Life
Are you tired of dull Latin maxims like de minimis non curat lex and nemo dat quod non habet? Bolster your legal Latin cred by using these h

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Jun 2, 20132 min read


Unleashing the STUVAC Mess Monster
My days during STUVAC are spent cooped up inside manically studying. But in order to do this, it seems the little things in my daily life ar

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Jun 1, 20132 min read


Surviving Law Exams when you have a Disability
I’m a fifth year LLB/Diploma of Legal Practice student, an enthusiastic journalist, zealous world traveler, obsessive reader, horse lover, o

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May 31, 20133 min read


Breaking the Lawyer Stereotype
In my first year of university I relished in the opportunity to drop into conversations the little fact that I studied law. At work, wheneve

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May 8, 20132 min read


Law Withdrawal
After four years of law school, I was looking forward to a law-free semester while on international exchange. Having purchased the required

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Apr 23, 20132 min read


Study v Work v Life: Learning Law, Postgrad Style
Just over three years ago I decided to apply to study law as a postgrad so I could pursue my passion for access to justice and be able to ad

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Apr 19, 20132 min read


Law's not a competition but I'm winning
I’ve never been the most competitive person. I was the kind of kid who abandoned losing card games before the final draw, who sat making dai

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Apr 7, 20132 min read


QUIZ: What Type of Law Student will you be this Semester?
At the start of every new semester, promises are made, calendars drawn up and study habits formed. Will you be the kind of student who stick

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Mar 17, 20133 min read


Loving Law: My First Weeks at Law School
My perspective on being a law student could be said to be fairly unique. At 51 years old and with a 30-year career in nursing/midwifery behi

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Mar 15, 20133 min read


The Week Two Blues
The first week of a new semester is always exciting. Seeing friends again, optimistically stacking new textbooks on your desk and best of al

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Mar 12, 20133 min read


The Post-Exchange Blues
Have you just come back from a semester abroad? I have, and here’s something they don’t really tell you in the pre-exchange info sessions –

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Mar 10, 20133 min read


Seven Deadly Sins – the Law Student Way
Law school can be a sinful place. Examine your behavior over the past few years and tell us how many of these sins you’re guilty of...

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Mar 8, 20132 min read


Perfectionism and the Law Student
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí Are you in the habit of setting yourself unattainable goals? You probab

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Mar 3, 20133 min read


Ten Tips for Surviving Law School
Law school can be an overwhelming jumble of convoluted readings, hard-to-find ratios, computer crashes and late nights, but there are heaps

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Feb 27, 20133 min read


Why Law School is Just Like High School
In a scary way, law school shares many similarities with high school. I'm sure you can probably relate to many of these comparisons…

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Feb 3, 20133 min read


Working Hardly: Law Student Proverbs
Your ethics lecturer probably told you that “he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,” and your ADR tutor may have said “fools and

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Jan 29, 20131 min read


House of Horrors: Finding Good Housemates
Moving out of the nest and learning to live with housemates can be an exciting time. While having a stable living arrangement will help your

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Jan 24, 20133 min read


Take Your Time: The Benefits of going Slow with your Law Degree
We law students are an overachieving competitive bunch. It comes with the territory. We’re all pretty bright and have had to fight our way i

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Jan 16, 20133 min read


I can't turn my law brain off!
From arguing your way out of trouble with double negatives, to using your old Contracts textbook as some light bedtime reading, sometimes th

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Jan 4, 20132 min read
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