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Summer Clerk Diary: Sarah Moore and Wendy Ooi, Moores Legal
Clerkships provide fantastic holiday work experience, but what happens afterwards? Melbourne University Law student Wendy Ooi and law gradua

Survive Law
Feb 15, 20123 min read


Social Media-Savvy Clerks Share Tips with Charity
Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s Sydney summer clerks were given a unique pro bono project this clerkship season.

Survive Law
Feb 10, 20121 min read


Why I Love Community Legal Work
When I started my law degree three years ago, I had recently returned from living my life as a ‘hippy’ in Latin America.
I knew from my exp

Survive Law
Feb 10, 20122 min read


Australian Catholic University Names Foundation Law Dean
Queensland University of Technology’s Professor Brian Fitzgerald will join Australian Catholic University next month as Executive Dean of th

Survive Law
Feb 9, 20121 min read


Taking an Alternative Career Path: Academia
I completed my law degree in December. In my last semester I could not find the floor of my room and had not left the house in ages – I thou

Survive Law
Feb 9, 20122 min read


Working Hardly: Law Students Anonymous
If Law Students Anonymous existed, there would surely be some interesting confessions as we come to grips with the fact that the law is perv

Survive Law
Feb 8, 20122 min read


UTS Dean of Law to Lead Copyright Review
Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has announced that University of Technology Sydney Dean of Law, Professor Jill McKeough will head up t

Survive Law
Feb 8, 20121 min read


Summer Clerk Diary: Sophie Barrow, DibbsBarker
Sydney University arts law student Sophie Barrow is another clerk who traded her summer in the sun (well, what little sun there was) for the

Survive Law
Feb 8, 20122 min read


Summer Clerk Diary: Sam Elder, Hunt & Hunt Lawyers
University of Melbourne juris doctor student Sam Elder spent his summer clerking with Hunt & Hunt Lawyers. Here is Sam’s take on the sum

Survive Law
Feb 7, 20123 min read


I Want Your Job: Interview with Ossian Elkington, Australian Human Rights Commission
Ossian Elkington. JD graduate, former Irish Bachelor of the Year contender, mixed martial arts aficionado, and the man who landed the job so

Wenee Yap
Feb 4, 20122 min read


Summer Clerk Diary: Smriti Arora, Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Today’s summer clerk diary entry comes from Smriti Arora, a commerce/ law student at the University of New South Wales, who is spending her

Survive Law
Feb 4, 20123 min read


Summer Clerk Diary: Jacinta Bishop and Rachel Kong, Marque Lawyers
The next instalment in our summer clerkship diary series comes from the clerks at Marque Lawyers. Jacinta Bishop, a juris doctor student fro

Survive Law
Feb 2, 20123 min read


Summer School: My Day
7:00am: Wake up. Hit the snooze button. 7:15am: Snooze

Survive Law
Feb 1, 20122 min read


Arbitration 101
It’s no surprise that arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution are in vogue: the world is becoming increasingly globali

Survive Law
Jan 31, 20123 min read


A Sporting Chance: Considering a Career in Sports Law
The field of sports law is seldom discussed and little understood. It is certainly not a topic mentioned alongside the likes of corporate la

Survive Law
Jan 30, 20127 min read


Working Hardly: The Wisdom of Judge Judy
To commemorate fifteen years of The Judge Judy Show having entertained bored law students everywhere, we at Survive Law have unearthed fifte

Survive Law
Jan 30, 20122 min read


Australia’s Best Law Student Blogs 2012
Happy Australia Day, Survivors! To celebrate, we’ve scoured the net for Australia’s best law student blogs (aka blawgs).

Survive Law
Jan 26, 20122 min read


(Welcome to) the Year of Living Dangerously
So we’re entering yet another symbolic new leaf turning: Chinese New Year, 2012. The Year of the Water Dragon. Dragons, according to Chinese

Wenee Yap
Jan 24, 20124 min read


Working Hardly: Funny Law Quotes
Witty remarks and cutting criticisms about judges, lawyering and the pursuit of justice… Good laws have their origins in bad morals. –Ambros

Survive Law
Jan 21, 20122 min read


What is Summer School Like?
I’m doing summer school at the moment. Yes, I’m inside reading while my friends are at the beach, but it’s not all bad. Here’s my take on th

Wenee Yap
Jan 19, 20123 min read
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