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6 Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Law Student Friends
It’s that time of year again. Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic comes back to haunt our airwaves, and so begins that mad rush to think of pre

Survive Law
Dec 11, 20172 min read


Review: The Trials of Justice Murphy
Suits, The Good Wife, and Serial are the classic fountains of inspiration when answering the burning question, “Why should I study law?”...

Survive Law
Nov 20, 20172 min read


Reflections from a Clerkship Survivor
So...the annual clerkship season for law students has come and gone. If you are unaware of what this is, it’s the period in March and/or May

Survive Law
Nov 16, 20173 min read


Getting into 2nd Year Law
Law School is like cooking for the first time. You have no idea what you’re doing, and it’s a bit of a mess. Added to that is the pressure t

Head Editor
Nov 9, 20172 min read


How to Tackle Exams like a Seasoned Pro
Hearing the word “exams” being thrown around is enough to create fear and loathing in the minds of all law students. Add to that other words

Survive Law
Nov 6, 20173 min read


Lies Law Students Believe
Your first year out of law school is one giant reality-check of all the assumptions you had at law school. As someone (marginally) older an

Survive Law
Nov 1, 20173 min read


How to Attack an Empty CV
If you're looking at your CV and feeling a little overwhelmed (or underwhelmed by what’s on it) there are few things you can try to beef

Survive Law
Oct 31, 20173 min read


7 Useful Resources for Every NZ Law Student
It’s easy to lose perspective when you’re knee deep in textbooks. Looking beyond the lecture theatre and knowing what’s happening out and ab

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Oct 26, 20173 min read


The 5 Real Reasons Why You Chose a Law Degree
A law degree is a whole lot of work and there’s no guarantee you’ll even get paid for it. So why on earth do we put ourselves through it?

Survive Law
Oct 24, 20173 min read


Eat, Pray, Law: What's It like to Go on Exchange?
The prospect of exchange sounds exciting, but sometimes you need just that little bit more certainty before you can make a concrete decision

Survive Law
Oct 23, 20173 min read


6 Apps That Can Really Ramp Up Your Study
The age of an impossible compromise between overpriced but beautiful Kikki K diaries and cheap but vanilla Officeworks planners is over. Che

Survive Law
Sep 20, 20174 min read


Why You Should Get a Law Mentor, Stat!
A great mentor is like a 7 in one multicooker – they can act as a career advisor, study assistant, networking coach, opportunity creator, pr

Survive Law
Sep 14, 20175 min read


How to Prepare for Law Ball a Year in Advance
Law balls are usually wedged in the middle of semester, which means preparations can get put on the backburner. Before you know it, you’re h

Survive Law
Sep 6, 20173 min read


Innovation Popcorn: What Happens to Your Facebook After You Die?
If you were to die today, what would you want to happen to your social media accounts, email, videos and photos stored on the cloud?...

Survive Law
Sep 5, 20173 min read


Quick De-stressing Activities
In Survive Law’s 2015 Australian Law Students’ Survey, 55% of law students said they felt stressed about law school most or all of the time.

Survive Law
Aug 30, 20172 min read


12 Things to Dress up as at Law-Themed Parties Other Than 'Lawyer'
So one of your friends has decided to be that person who organises a law-themed party, because you know, you can never be too extra about th

Survive Law
Aug 18, 20172 min read


Book Review: Constitutional Law Case Summaries, 6th ed
Call me a millennial, but I respond to every musty textbook of legal case summaries with the same unoriginal droll: ‘Couldn’t I just...

Survive Law
Aug 18, 20173 min read


Book Review: Family Law Case Summaries, 6th Ed, ed. Duncan Holmes, 2016
Textbooks are as much a part of student life as being overtired, broke or hung-over (and sometimes all at once). Each semester we can spend

Survive Law
Aug 11, 20173 min read


Innovation Popcorn: Building Judge Hercules
Angus Murray and Daniel Owen from The Legal Forecast explain that the use of a little thing called “data analytics” can allow lawyers to emb

Survive Law
Aug 4, 20175 min read


Finding a Job With No Legal Work Experience
Remember your first day of law school? You sauntered in with an air of confidence, swaggering over to your desk as if you were already Harve

Survive Law
Aug 2, 20173 min read
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