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Protégé: Tackling a legal career after rugby
After a decade-long career as a professional rugby union player, marked by captaincy honours and the pride of...
06 June 2025
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: Everything you need to know to start your own law firm
With many feeling lost and overwhelmed when starting their own law firm, one young lawyer who has navigated these...
30 May 2025
By Robyn Tongol
How law students can combat burnout
While burnout has become an increasingly rapid (and almost accepted) part of being a law student, Aaron Lee shares the...
12 May 2025
By Grace Robbie
Protégé: The secret to a well-balanced life as a law student
Juggling university life, work commitments, and social activities seems like an impossible task for many law students....
30 April 2025
By Robyn Tongol
How slowing down your law degree can fast-track your success
By taking a more deliberate approach to her law degree, Charlotte Carles believes she has developed a stronger sense of...
28 April 2025
By Grace Robbie
How this lawyer’s tennis career served her up for success
After her career as a professional athlete, Jade Hopper has shared the valuable skills and lessons she gained...
28 April 2025
By Grace Robbie
Protégé: The hidden benefits of slowing down your law degree
While some law students may believe that rushing through their degree offers a competitive advantage, this might not be...
09 April 2025
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: A pro tennis player’s journey to law
Jade Hopper, once a former gold medal-winning athlete, has traded the tennis courts for the courtroom. Here, she shares...
26 March 2025
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: A nurse turned lawyer on helping neurodivergent workers thrive
Having previously served as a nurse and having grown up with neurodivergent family members, Libby Thomas believes there...
19 March 2025
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: Overcoming the struggle of making professional connections
Despite the legal profession’s strong emphasis on professional connections, many law students and young lawyers...
25 February 2025
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: How this neurodiverse lawyer paved a pathway to success
While things are improving, traditionally, professions like law have not catered well to a diversity of idiosyncratic...
08 January 2025
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: Entering law as a first-generation student
For anyone, starting law school is enormously challenging, both personally and professionally. For first-generation...
06 January 2025
By Robyn Tongol
Top 10 episodes for students and new lawyers in 2024
Check out the 10 podcast episodes that grabbed the most attention from Australia’s law students, graduates, and...
23 December 2024
By Lawyers Weekly
Protégé: Why is it more difficult for law students to secure employment?
The challenge of securing employment and opportunities within the legal profession has become increasingly formidable...
20 December 2024
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: Showcasing worth, and other challenges facing young lawyers
Among the seasonal issues faced by the next generation of practitioners is a sense of having to prove oneself in the...
13 November 2024
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: Lessons from the first year of law school
Having recently completed the first year of her law degree, Cassidy Pole’s passion for the rule of law has only...
30 October 2024
By Robyn Tongol
Protégé: A law school dean on the challenges and opportunities for students and legal educators
The School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary....
08 October 2024
By Jessa Sargento
Addressing isolation in legal education for Indigenous students
Completing a law degree is already challenging for many students and an intern at a BigLaw firm revealed that for...
30 September 2024
By Grace Robbie
Can GenAI outperform Australian law students?
An NSW-based law lecturer recently undertook an experiment, pitting his criminal law cohort against 10 separate...
25 September 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Protégé: The importance of better supporting Indigenous students
Australia and its legal profession are embracing diversity more than ever before. Here, one Indigenous law student...
20 September 2024
By Robyn Tongol