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    Review: Workplace Bullying
    Survive Law
    • Oct 4, 2016
    • 2 min

    Review: Workplace Bullying

    Survive Law's Jess Awad dishes the dirt on LexisNexis' take on Workplace Bullying. For those of you interested in gaining a broader
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    Profile: Robyn Bradey on Law and Mental Health
    Survive Law
    • Apr 5, 2016
    • 2 min

    Profile: Robyn Bradey on Law and Mental Health

    Survive Law first encountered social worker and mental health expert, Robyn Bradey, at College of Law's Wellness Forum. We caught up wit
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    5 signs you're headed for burnout
    Survive Law
    • Oct 29, 2015
    • 3 min

    5 signs you're headed for burnout

    It’s that time of the semester where things are starting to get a bit too much. Exams are only a few weeks away and you’ve still got a whole
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    Controlling mental monsters
    Survive Law
    • Oct 26, 2015
    • 2 min

    Controlling mental monsters

    ‘It’s too difficult’. ‘I’m not smart enough’. ‘Everybody hates me’. Do any of these thoughts sound familiar? Psychologists call these types
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    The lowdown on downtime
    Survive Law
    • Oct 12, 2015
    • 3 min

    The lowdown on downtime

    As law students we receive a wealth of advice when it comes to study skills, revision techniques and exam prep. We emerge from our degree wi
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    Returning Home: Adjusting to Life after Exchange
    Survive Law
    • Oct 7, 2015
    • 3 min

    Returning Home: Adjusting to Life after Exchange

    Have you just returned from a semester overseas feeling a bit of post-exchange-blues? I know I am. I’ve just spent six months abroad. Away from away from work, responsibilities, and expectations of friends and family. The freedom of non-graded pass marks allowing me to relax and actually get involved in societies, events and taking weekend trips away with friends. I’ve found it pretty tough adjusting back to the life at home. The vast adjustment back to strict responsibilitie
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    Coping with mid-sem mayhem
    Survive Law
    • Sep 29, 2015
    • 3 min

    Coping with mid-sem mayhem

    Mid-semester break, a magical week of no classes. A time when you can catch up on missed lectures, sleep in, and finish off the assignments that are due when classes resume. It seems so far away. There’s plenty of time to plan and get on top of things. No need to start planning just yet, I can do all that next week… right? Well I hate to break it to you, but mid-semester break is here. Now! Suddenly, you’ve got all your lectures and assignments to catch up on. A feeling of he
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    Eat, Sleep, Law, Repeat: Caring for Yourself in Law School
    Survive Law
    • Jul 17, 2015
    • 2 min

    Eat, Sleep, Law, Repeat: Caring for Yourself in Law School

    I once heard that law school was “a marathon, not a sprint”, but now that I'm in my fourth year, I’ve found that studying law is more li
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    Your mental health matters
    Survive Law
    • Apr 1, 2015
    • 2 min

    Your mental health matters

    I found myself at a party one evening speaking to a friend’s dad who is a barrister. I told him of my interests and explained that someone r
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    Managing Your Mental Health in Law School
    Survive Law
    • Oct 15, 2014
    • 3 min

    Managing Your Mental Health in Law School

    Our lecturers and tutors regularly remind us that depression and anxiety are more prevalent among law students and lawyers than in any other
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    Four Reasons to Put Down your Textbook and Start Exercising
    Survive Law
    • Sep 15, 2014
    • 2 min

    Four Reasons to Put Down your Textbook and Start Exercising

    “Exercise? Who has time for that?” With a long list of reading materials to get through, part-time jobs, volunteer work, and job application
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    Why you Need to Take a Holiday
    Survive Law
    • Jun 23, 2014
    • 2 min

    Why you Need to Take a Holiday

    Exam period is upon us, which means that you probably can’t remember the last time you’ve watched a movie without feeling guilty, or the las
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    New Guidelines Focus on Mental Health in the Legal Workplace
    Survive Law
    • May 13, 2014
    • 1 min

    New Guidelines Focus on Mental Health in the Legal Workplace

    In a world-first for the legal industry, the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation yesterday unveiled its Psychological Wellbeing: Best Practic
    25 views0 comments
    Law School Blues
    Survive Law
    • May 8, 2014
    • 3 min

    Law School Blues

    My first experience of depression happened at 16. Family and childhood issues from a young age had changed my cheerful, blissfully ignorant
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    Mental Health Resources for Law Students
    Survive Law
    • May 7, 2014
    • 3 min

    Mental Health Resources for Law Students

    Law as a profession has one of the highest rates of depression and anxiety of any occupation, and it all starts in law school. As law studen
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    Looking out for the Signs of Depression and Anxiety
    Survive Law
    • Apr 3, 2014
    • 3 min

    Looking out for the Signs of Depression and Anxiety

    We all know that being a law student can be stressful. However, when the demands of law school are combined with the general stresses of dai
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    Five Tips for Keeping Sane during another Year of Law School
    Survive Law
    • Mar 16, 2014
    • 4 min

    Five Tips for Keeping Sane during another Year of Law School

    A new year of law school means great things: crisp new stationery, new people with fresh brains to pick, and new 9am lectures to not attend.
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    Ten Tips for Better Sleep
    Survive Law
    • Oct 28, 2013
    • 2 min

    Ten Tips for Better Sleep

    When you’re busy studying for exams, it’s easy to neglect your sleep needs, but staying up late to listen to lecture podcasts only makes it
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    Victoria Launches Foundation to Improve Lawyers' Mental Health
    Survive Law
    • Oct 1, 2013
    • 1 min

    Victoria Launches Foundation to Improve Lawyers' Mental Health

    A new foundation will be working to improve the mental wellbeing of Victoria’s legal practitioners. Launched last month, the Wellbeing and t
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    Law School a Major Factor in Student Stress: NZ Survey
    Survive Law
    • Sep 11, 2013
    • 2 min

    Law School a Major Factor in Student Stress: NZ Survey

    More than 85% of New Zealand’s law students experience high levels of stress, and 95% of students say their legal studies are a direct or co
    18 views0 comments
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