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25.01.2022 Thank you to the students and alumni who joined us for last week’s webinar ‘How to Craft a Value Proposition with Authenticity’. We hope you enjoyed the session! A BIG thank you to our panellists Anne-Marie Cade, Nicole Davidson and Khayshie Tilak Ramesh for the time and effort they took to share their thoughts and experiences with us.

25.01.2022 Addressing a judge or judicial officer can be intimidating at any stage of your career. Thank you to Anita Hall, Lecturer at the College of Law Queensland, for contributing this week's #FridayFive on scenarios of how to address a judge or judicial officer.

24.01.2022 Practical Legal Training graduates it’s the final week of the Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS). Don’t miss your chance to share your experience as a recent graduate. Your answers are used to shape the future of higher education. Complete the survey now at http://gos.edu.au/

24.01.2022 '"Are you the defendant or are you the witness?" Sam Pandya is neither. He's the president of the Law Institute of Victoria, the state's top legal society. But it's a question he's been asked in court more than once. Along with a Victorian judge, he has taken the unusual step of speaking out as new figures show the profession has a cultural diversity problem.'

22.01.2022 Chloe D'Souza, a Wilman Noongar woman, lawyer based in Perth and graduate of The College of Law Australia, speaks to SBS News about her passion for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

21.01.2022 'This is something she told me when I started law school. Whenever you take notes whether it’s in class, or at a hearing, or in any arena that you might be taking notes always read them back after that event has ended, whether it’s the class, or the meeting, or the hearing, or the oral argument. By just taking those extra five minutes to read the notes right there in the moment you will cement those notes and the succinct nature of what you boiled down from what may have been a 45-minute oral argument or a 90-minute class, and that will go into your brain and you will retain it much better than if you just write the notes and forget them and revisit them a week, or two weeks, or a month later. '

21.01.2022 As the working year kicks into high gear, life can start to feel overwhelming. Executive Coach Ellie Scarf has five simple tips to help find more self-compassion in your career and your life. #fridayfive #legalwellbeing

20.01.2022 Losing your enthusiasm for remote learning? Finding it a struggle to keep up with your coursework? If your mental health is getting in the way of your studies (and your life), you’re not alone. That’s why we’ve created this short, practical guide: ‘Maintaining Your Wellbeing During COVID-19’. It covers: How to get the most out of studying from home... How to protect your wellbeing during times of heightened stress How to get help if you’re struggling with your studies Looking to the future: legal jobs, disruption, networking and more Download now! https://hubs.la/H0zRbkq0

20.01.2022 Congratulations to all of our College of Law graduates who were admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland last week. This is a culmination of all your hard work over the past few years and a fantastic achievement of which to be very proud. While we couldn't be there to congratulate you in person, we wanted to mark this milestone and thank you for sharing your photos with us. We love seeing the pride on the faces of your friends and family who have supported you from the first day of law school, all the way through to admission.

20.01.2022 Today, we're thrilled to announce our first group of College Ambassadors in Victoria! Over the next year, these inspiring young leaders will represent the College and share their experiences and advice with the next generation of the legal profession. Please join us in welcoming the 2021 College Ambassadors! ... Emma Berkeley Naz Besavend Jack Carmody Paula Dolezal Yeann Law Edwina Memic Georgia Seviloglou Khayshie Tilak Ramesh Arielle Tigel Chloe Wakim

19.01.2022 'Starting on Monday, KWM will adopt a roster devised by its practice teams that it hopes will provide certainty for the firm, staff and clients. Mr Cox said one of the biggest changes related to young lawyers. KWM has removed billable hours targets for graduates and put a multiplier on the hours spent training on technology, such as the Kira document review system.'

18.01.2022 What does the legal practice of tomorrow look like? And what would you say if you were given the opportunity to help co-design it? Introducing the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 a one-week conference that culminates in a very special one-day workshop. Titled ‘Building the next legal practice’, this collaborative, interactive full-day experience will empower you to take a proactive role in determining a possible future of the legal industry and the future of your own practice. Learn more https://hubs.la/H0B6Q340

17.01.2022 'Australia's corporate law firms have come out of the pandemic richer, with almost 80 per cent recording stable or rising profits compared to the previous year and an average profit increase of 7 per cent across the sector.'

16.01.2022 Four College Practical Legal Training graduates have been nominated as finalists for Law Student of the Year in this year's Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Award! Congratulations to Mary Aidonopoulos, Giorgia Maiorana, Courtney Remington, and Melany Toombs, on their nomination. The Law Student of The Year award recognises the academic, community and legal achievements of undergraduates.... The finalists spoke to Lawyers Weekly about what being a finalist means to them, what their future plans are and why more young lawyers should get involved. https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au//28783-rising-star-of-the

15.01.2022 Congratulations to Tegan Doherty who is the recipient of the The College of Law Australia and Family Law Practitioners Association of Queensland 2020 PLT Student Scholarship. This scholarship offers a wonderful opportunity to be supported by experienced legal practitioner mentors both at the College of Law and in the workplace, said Ann-Maree David, Executive Director, The College of Law Queensland. The College is thrilled to be working with FLPA to provide this opportunity for someone like Tegan who is looking to build a career in family law.

15.01.2022 On Friday 2 October, the College's Susan Pincus and Jacqui Steffen hosted a ‘Maintaining Momentum During your Job Search COVID-19 & Beyond' webinar for off-campus law students at Deakin University. A big thank you to our panellists Jack Carmody, Field Inspector at WorkSafe and Ravi Wickramaratne, Legal Recruitment Consultant at Gatehouse Legal Recruitment for sharing their insights with us. A special thank you also to DLSS Geelong for hosting us!

13.01.2022 Unlike many other areas of law, you can arrange things so that your client ‘wins’, explained Andrew Boog. In most commercial transactions, it is possible to have happy, relatively satisfied, clients on each side of the dealing. The work provides many windows into various businesses, all of which are interesting." Read about how Andrew became a business law specialist: https://www.collaw.edu.au//how-i-broke-into-business-law-w #businesslaw #transactions #commerciallaw #careergrowth

13.01.2022 For many of us, study doesn't stop once we leave uni. Whether you are starting your legal studies, going back for additional postgraduate study or upskilling for your current role, study skills are always needed. Thank you to Anita Hall, Lecturer at the College of Law Queensland for the first of a study skills series. This instalment covers note taking. Do you have any tips to add?

13.01.2022 'The state government has considered reducing jury sizes from the traditional 12 to eight jurors as one solution to deal with the backlog of trials delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.'

12.01.2022 'A big question around remote working was "whether young lawyers are getting the essential training and inspiration they need to develop both their legal and soft skills". "Much of which is subliminal: how they liaise with clients, how they conduct themselves as a professional, how they can contribute to a team ..."'

12.01.2022 'Data bods ran 100 different graduate-entry legal job ads through a text-reading algorithm to identify the most commonly mentioned skills and competencies. ‘Excellent communicator’ came out top with a hit rate of 73%, followed by ‘team player’, which appeared in over half the adverts (55%) sampled. ‘Able’ and ‘a desire to succeed’ shared third spot with 45%.'

11.01.2022 CAREER WORKSHOP SERIES - INTERVIEW SKILLS | TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2020, 6:00PM - 7:30PM (AEDT) The AALA invites you to attend the second session in its Career Wor...kshop Series, on the topic of interview skills. The Career Workshop Series is an initiative specifically targeted at law students and graduates from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. It is intended to equip them with tangible career-oriented skills and knowledge, in order to help them overcome the additional obstacles faced in the job-hunting process associated with being from CALD backgrounds, and indeed, leverage their cultural backgrounds as a source of competitive advantage. This session will take the form of an informal fireside chat with senior legal practitioners who have been decision-makers in recruitment processes at corporate and commercial firms, including: Gillian Woon, Special Counsel at Baker McKenzie; Natasha Toholka, Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright; and Tuanh Nguyen, Director (Legal) at PwC The topics intended to be explored include: preparing for interviews; responding to questions; and building rapport and establishing cultural fit There will be a 1 hour panel discussion, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. RSVP at http://aala.org.au/event-4003763 Zoom dial-in details will be provided in the confirmation email following registration. Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a mock interview after the session. If you have any queries, please contact Kelvin Ng at [email protected].

10.01.2022 In a statement, the Family Court said that the new form replaces and consolidates the following court forms: the notice of risk; notice of child abuse; family violence or risk of family violence (current case); and the notice of child abuse, family violence, or risk of family violence (application for consent orders). https://www.thelawyermag.com//family-court-implemen/237882

10.01.2022 I work a lot with lawyers, partners, in house legal teams and GCs, said Ellie Scarf, Managing Director and Senior Partner of OSC Leadership Performance. I also help with assessment during the partner promotion process. My legal experience sets me up quite uniquely to have these discussions, as you share a language and are well placed to build credibility as a coach. Essentially, coaching is a highly tailored intervention, explained Ellie. Sometimes, it's about identify...ing a particular thing we want to work on; for example, confidence, leadership presence, time management or organisational skills. It can also be a bigger question about who you are, who you are in this position, and how you want to ‘show up’, and how you want to be. Eager to optimise your performance as a leader, or as a team? Read how lawyer-turned-global-executive-coach whips top law teams and leaders into shape so they're primed to hit peak performance. #leadership #legalteams #executivecoaching #teamworkmakesthedreamwork https://www.collaw.edu.au//how-lawyer-turned-executive-coa

10.01.2022 We were proud to sponsor last Friday's The Blackstone Society - UWA Law Students' Society Final Year Dinner. We were delighted to help celebrate this important milestone with the Class of 2020 and look forward to assisting students as they enter the next chapter of their journey. Pictured is Michelle Harries, Assistant Director (l), with attendees.

10.01.2022 'After making a mid-career change, graduating top of her cohort and welcoming a baby, Emma McLaughlin is settling into a role with a BigLaw firm. She speaks to Protégé on her career goals, recent achievements and advice for other students breaking into law. I think the one thing I’ve learnt from having a career before is that what I get the most satisfaction out of is being known as a good practitioner and having people that want to work with me and then getting great exposure and opportunities to work with great clients on some great matters, she said. That’s very much more my goal.' Emma is currently undertaking her Practical Legal Training with The College of Law.

09.01.2022 'Law firms are putting more effort into virtual courtrooms that help create some of the theatre of the real thing. The stars of the show are virtual hearing modules that cost around $8500 each and help transform conference rooms into courts, complete with a public gallery. Norton Rose installed seven hearing modules across its offices and worked with barristers on setting up the virtual courts.'

09.01.2022 The Amicus Curiae's Admission Celebration for 2020 Admissions in Victoria is now streaming live! Join us to welcome the Victorian legal professions newest members and hear Julian Burnside AO QC, William Lye OAM QC, Anna Brown OAM and Jill Prior share their advice for new lawyers. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/victorian-admission-2020-a-... The College of Law is a proud sponsor of the event.

09.01.2022 In this on-demand recording, join Frances Moffitt for a one-hour fundamental guide where you will learn about: - What is trust money and the different types - Where should trust money be paid - What law practices must do ... - Dispersing funds without authority - Mixing trust monies with other monies - Receiving trust money in cash - Deficiency in trust accounts - Responsibilities of principals - Liability of principals https://www.collaw.edu.au//trust-money-f/c-24/c-77/p-20989

09.01.2022 Congratulations to our very own Ann-Maree David, Executive Director Queensland, on being recognised for her amazing work in the legal profession by Happy Lawyer Happy Life! Ann-Maree has been honoured as the first of 12 lawyers in the 'Celebrating the cool in #Lawland'! series. To celebrate the occasion, you can even pre-order your very own Ann-Maree "A.M.D" Brooch.... Bravo to Ann-Maree for this well-deserved recognition!

06.01.2022 Keen to get ready for the Asian century? Commercial lawyer Chia Chea Ko teaches ASEAN+6 subjects available to our LLM (Applied Law) students, including cross-border M&A, and drafting and negotiating cross-border contracts. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Chia Chea has dealt with deals spanning South Korea, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Here's her Friday Five tips on navigating the cultural mores and jurisdictional nuances in and within Asia, as well as staying relevant through economic turbulence. #asiancentury #crossborder #fridayfive #careeradvice

05.01.2022 College graduate, Simon Playford, 'who jumped from associate to head of a law firm has provided insights, tips and tricks into how budding legal professionals can follow the same path and make use of non-lawyer skills learnt during university throughout the rest of their law careers.'

05.01.2022 Elder Law is growing alongside Australia's ageing population. How do you prepare to meet this demand? What areas of practice have an Elder Law dimension? Get the low down from elder lawyer, Adeline Schiralli, on how she expanded from Wills & Estates into Elder Law. It might be more of a natural progression than you think! Do you have any tips to add? Questions to pose? Share them below.... #fridayfive #tgif #careertips

04.01.2022 Congratulations to our College of Law graduates who were recently admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland in Rockhampton. We love hearing updates from our graduates as they begin their careers in the law and the opportunities they make for themselves. Last year we asked Rowan King of RK Law (himself a triple graduate of The College of Law) to speak to a new cohort of PLT students we were teaching locally in Rockhampton. Rowan spoke about what it was like working in regi...onal Queensland as a newly admitted lawyer, how to get a job, how to network and about regional practice in general. Rowan met two motivated students on that day, Marjorie Foley and Lachlan Robertson (photo on the left). Both took the opportunity to talk with Rowan and must have made an impression as both are now part of the legal team at RK Law! Rowan and Lauchlan attended Marjorie's admission ceremony to celebrate her milestone achievement. Congratulations also to fellow College of Law graduate Laura Clout who is also pictured. Thank you for sharing this success story with us.

03.01.2022 'New Law Council of Australia president Jacoba Brasch, QC, thinks it is high time that lawyers are given due regard for their contribution to society. But it’s often forgotten that we play a critical role in, say, trade and commerce. The amount of pro bono work that my colleagues and I do is absolute unsung heroes stuff.'

03.01.2022 'Simon Steward was the first graduate of his Melbourne University law class to become a senior or queen's counsel. He will now be the first to join the High Court. The taxation barrister has been a Federal Court judge for two years and nine months.'

03.01.2022 On Wednesday evening we were on campus at Adelaide University for the Adelaide University Law Students' Society (AULSS) GDLP Networking Night. Thank you to AULSS and all of the students who attended!

03.01.2022 Practical Legal Training graduates it’s time to share your experience in the Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS). It doesn’t take long to do, and puts you in the draw to win $1,000! Complete the survey by 23 November for your chance to win. To complete the survey, visit http://gos.edu.au/