Ansku
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Post by Ansku on Jan 22, 2009 10:14:00 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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lindsay
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." - Franz Kafka
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Post by lindsay on Jan 22, 2009 18:54:26 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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yara
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Post by yara on Jan 22, 2009 19:00:39 GMT -5
Law
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Post by Dominique on Jan 23, 2009 7:03:50 GMT -5
I got my university results a couple of hours ago and have been on the internet researching prospective jobs I got accepted into UNSW for Combined Law! I was crying the day before because apparently the cut-off for the degree was 0.05 higher than the admissions number I had. My entire family and I were completely shocked and blew a collective sigh of relief afterwards!! The problem lies in what I'll be combining my Law degree with though. Initially I was really considering a Law/Science degree majoring in Psychology and hopefully undertaking an honours course. But now I'm not sure whether I want to be doing a Social Work/Law degree. I wish there was a way I could be doing both. Congratulations, that's great!!! What a good uni to get into too! I combined mine with Communications Personally I think if I was picking I would go for the Science/Psychology one, because I just think that would be fascinating! I think social work would mainly benefit practicing in Family Law where as Science and Psychology would probably apply in both that area and criminal etc so it may be more useful? I could be wrong though, as our uni doesnt offer a social work combination with law so I don't know too much about how they go together. In the end though so many people end up practicing in areas completely different to what their law subjects were, let alone to what their other degree so don't worry about it too much!
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Post by Carma on Jan 24, 2009 9:09:30 GMT -5
yay Jobean!!
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Jan 24, 2009 15:31:22 GMT -5
Congratulations Jobean!!
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jobean
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Post by jobean on Jan 25, 2009 5:06:51 GMT -5
Yay thanks guys! I ended up picking Science (majoring in Psychology)/Law (I agree with you Dom! It does sound so interesting ) and am doing an extra environmental science elective. My brother arranged my timetable for me because I was so hopeless at it and so I only have 4 days a week although my Mondays will be a bit hectic - 4 lectures in one day! Dom, I wanted to ask you (or anyone else studying a Law degree) - is it easy to get work experience or internships during university semester breaks or over the summer holidays? I do want some kind of experience within the legal field before I graduate.
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Post by Dominique on Jan 25, 2009 6:36:24 GMT -5
That's great! 4 days a week is pretty good too You'll just need lots of coffee for that long day. Yup you can do work experience and internships pretty easily. I'm not sure about UNSW but my uni (Newcastle) has it's own legal centre so that could be a good starting point if UNSW has something similar. I've gotten a little experience as a temp legal secretary over this holidays and some upcoming family law court work experience (even though that's probably not the field I want to be in, still worthwhile!). But that's at one of my best friend's father's firms! But tons of people in my degree have gotten work experience in legal aid and various other law offices around town just by calling up and sending in a letter and a resume. Apart from generic work experience in the summer between your fourth and fifth year it can be really beneficial to get what's called a summer clerkship. These run for the summer at the big top tier firms in major cities. They're really competitive to get in to though so it definately helps if you have some law work experience behind you before you apply for them. I didn't really have much legal experience when it came to be time to apply so I didn't go for it. You definately want to do some sort of work experience or internship before you graduate because I've heard it can be difficult to get a job otherwise, but I'm not sure. They have a pretty interesting (but very long) thread at vogue forums about being a law student/graduate in Australia: forums.vogue.com.au/showthread.php?t=290281&page=106You have to wade through it a bit because so many topics are lumped in there, but there's often some interesting tidbits about clerkships, different areas of work, work experience, all that kind of thing. I'm actually going to have to look for a lot more work experience this year though, because I really don't have much so far and this will be my final year. Because I'm still not sure I won't mainly be working with my Communications degree instead of law I haven't put much effort in so far. But I really should to keep all my options open! So I'll let you know how that goes.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Jan 25, 2009 8:47:58 GMT -5
Jobean, I was a psych major in undergrad and I found that it was a good degree to have before law school. I know the Australian system is set up differently, but I think the two areas will definitely work together.
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yara
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Post by yara on Jan 25, 2009 17:40:21 GMT -5
you attended the Law School? i'd love to attend an american law school but i know university it's very different from Italy( and very expensive) so i don't know if an italian law degree is enough to attend it ........some years ago an american professor from Yale Law school came in Pisa and i went to his lessons..it was great!
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Jan 25, 2009 19:51:27 GMT -5
We had a lot of European students come for a year to do their LLM (Master of Law). They already had degrees in their home country, but did that so that they could practice in the US (or just for kicks). Law is one of those things that's hard to carry over to another country. It would even be hard for me to go to Canada or England even though our legal systems are very similar.
My school was extremely expensive, but there are affordable law schools here.
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yara
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by yara on Jan 26, 2009 9:41:04 GMT -5
Where did you study? i looked for a LLM on internet, the professor who is helping me for my thesis studied in Yale and Harvard but they are really really expensive and i'm not so good to be admitted in these university ....what you have to do to work as lwyer in Usa? Law school and than? if i have an italian law school degree it's enogh the LLM? because i found also one llm i Italy that will give me the a degree to practice in Usa. In Italy if you want to be a lawyer you have to attend a law school get the degree and work for two year whit a lawyer ( usually free ) and than you have to pass a difficoult exam
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cauthoncrazy
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I've got the dreamers disease.
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Post by cauthoncrazy on Jan 26, 2009 9:58:09 GMT -5
I'm a Religion major with an International Studies. Basically I take a lot of religion classes and some political science classes.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Jan 26, 2009 18:40:46 GMT -5
Where did you study? i looked for a LLM on internet, the professor who is helping me for my thesis studied in Yale and Harvard but they are really really expensive and i'm not so good to be admitted in these university ....what you have to do to work as lwyer in Usa? Law school and than? if i have an italian law school degree it's enogh the LLM? because i found also one llm i Italy that will give me the a degree to practice in Usa. In Italy if you want to be a lawyer you have to attend a law school get the degree and work for two year whit a lawyer ( usually free ) and than you have to pass a difficoult exam I went to the University of Michigan. It is a top ten school which is why it is so expensive. It's up there in price with Yale and Harvard despite being a public school. I'm not sure what requirements they have for international LLM students. But there are plenty of other law schools that are much cheaper and are perfectly good schools. My understanding is that if you have a bachelor of law from another country, you can get your LLM (I think it's just a year) and then sit for a bar exam here. I know that's the case for the New York bar which is what most international students take. But each state has it's own bar and it's own rules for taking the exam. In the US, you have to have an undergraduate degree in order to be admitted to law school and then you have to finish law school before you can sit for the bar exam (with a few exceptions - like California). Once you take the bar exam, which you can do right after graduating, you're a full-fledged lawyer and can begin practicing. I only graduated in May and after being admitted to the Florida bar in October, I'm already signing court documents and I could take on my own cases if I felt ready.
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annak
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Post by annak on Jan 28, 2009 2:25:35 GMT -5
I'm excited to see that so many of you are studying Law or have already finished. I'm still working on my undergraduate, but I've finally decided on applying to Law school in the fall, hopefully to start Fall 2010. I'm taking the LSAT in September so that I can study all summer for it.
I am not looking forward to writing my personal statement. I hate trying to market myself because I have a hard time not thinking "GOD THIS IS CHEESY!"
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