When he applied for clerkships in his penultimate year of law school, An Vo, like many others, was unsuccessful. Now working as a lawyer in the banking team at Clayton Utz, Vo chatted with Survive Law about how missing out on a clerkship wasn't the end of the world and explained how he scored his graduate job.

Bought or borrowed notes are frequently viewed as a miracle on A4, the answer to your pre-exam prayers. Hand-me-down notes can be a huge help...

The first week of semester is always expensive. Luckily, there are a number of websites where you can buy discount or secondhand law texts, , or sell a few of last semester's books.