Tips for International Students Studying Law
If there’s one thing international students are painfully aware of, it’s that finding a job in Australia is notoriously difficult. Sometimes it does feel awkward when you’re at a networking …
Competitions to Careers: Setting yourself up for a career in law while studying
Whether you have just started law school or are well underway in your degree, you are never at a stage where the advice and experience of a peer is not …
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The Non-Linear Guide to Law School: There’s No “Right” Way to Build a Legal Career
Exploration: You do not need to know your destination High School -> Legal Assistant/Paralegal -> Clerkship -> Graduate Job When a first- or second-year law student asks me for advice, …
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Behind the Headlines: Working in Media and Defamation Law
Getting to see how the online world works is like learning a new culture and language, with different rules and customs that journalists, publishers and public figures must follow. Or …
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Law, Language & Leadership: Turning Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Experience into a Career Asset at Law School and Beyond
Estimated Reading Time: 1-2 Minutes In a profession that’s adapting to the world’s vast and ever-changing spectrum of people and practice, law scholars and practitioners who communicate across cultures don’t …
Legal Volunteering as a First-Year: Why It’s Not Too Early
Estimated Reading Time: 3-4 Minutes 1. Why I Started Volunteering What’s the meaning of life? Does it exist on its own, or do we only create it by searching for …
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The life of a first-year law student
Estimated Reading Time: 4 Minutes You may be overwhelmed starting law school if you don’t know someone in law school or who recently attended law school. I know I was. …
The immense impact of volunteering, not just to your resume
Estimated Reading Time: 3-4 Minutes “Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they have the heart.” – Elizabeth Andrews Volunteering is a business of the heart; it is the inherent …
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Volunteering – how can it help us?
Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes Volunteering – just another thing I thought I had to do. Yet when my employer recognised I was volunteering in my interview, as she exclaimed …
How to put yourself out there during a networking event by Akhila Jaimes Estimated Reading Time: 3 Minutes During the early years of law school, life once you leave law …