Deakin Law Students' Society Seasonal Clerkship Guide 2015

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Deakin law students’ Society

Seasonal Clerkship Guide 2015

Deakin University Australia

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Deakin law students’ Society

Seasonal Clerkship Guide 2015

Deakin University Australia

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Editor’s Thank You The Commercial Careers portfolio would like to sincerely thank all those who contributed to the production of this Guide through their hard work, contribution of information, and sponsorship. The publication of this resource would not have been possible without you.

Deakin Law Students’ Society Seasonal Clerkship Guide 2015 Editor-In-Chief Andrew Vicendese (Burwood) Sub-Editors Nicholas Brewer (Burwood) Jordan Jai Lai (Burwood) Andrew Robertson Design Andrew Robertson Print BAMBRA Press

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The Deakin Law Students’ Society would like to thank its sponsors for their generous support in making this publication possible.

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Contents

1. Introduction Introduction…08 Foreword…09

2. Admission From Law Student to Lawyer…12 International Admission to Practice Requirements…13 Law Institute of Victoria…14 LIV Schedule of Dates…15 LIV Clerkship and Traineeship Guidelines…16 Practical Legal Training…18 Australian National University Legal Workshop…19 The College of Law…22 Leo Cussen Centre for Law…24

3. application Process CV, Cover Letter & Interview Tips…30 Example CV…33 Holy Grails…35 Where to Go and Why…38 5 Reasons to be a Seasonal Clerk…39

4. Firm Insights Matrix…45 Firms…49 Firm Insights…50

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Introduction

Welcome to the 2015 edition of the Seasonal Clerkship Guide, a publication compiled to assist Deakin Law students seeking out seasonal clerkships and graduate traineeships in 2015.

Seasonal clerkships are paid work experience opportunities offered by some law firms to penultimate year law students which typically run for three to four weeks over summer and/or winter. Some firms also consider final year students, but there is an emphasis on penultimate students. Clerking at a firm is becoming an increasingly crucial step towards becoming a lawyer. This is not only because the clerkship program gives you first-hand legal experience and allows you to assess whether the firm is for you, but also because many firms are beginning to recruit graduates exclusively from their clerking pools. Whilst it is not the end of the road if you miss out on a clerkship, it does reduce the amount of graduate employers you can then apply to when the time comes.

In Victoria, to be admitted as a legal practitioner to the Supreme Court of Victoria, you must first complete a Practical Legal Training course or Supervised Workplace Training as an employee of a firm. The latter is what is known as a ‘graduate traineeship’, and involves twelve months of work at a law firm under the supervision of a legal practitioner. Note, however, that some external training is still required and earning a graduate traineeship does not necessarily guarantee a subsequent position as a first year lawyer. Graduate traineeships are open to final year students.

“The wise man has no firm principles. He adapts to others” — Lao Tzu. The Australian legal profession is changing, and we law students must adapt accordingly. Technology is affecting the way legal work is completed, extended retirement ages and life spans are lengthening job turnover rates, globalisation is facilitating international expansions by firms and the excessive number of law graduates continues to relentlessly increase whilst firms’ ability to take on graduates has generally flat-lined.

With the total number of Australian law graduates nearing 13,000, firms are able to become highly selective of who they offer seasonal clerkships and graduate positions to. The perfect student whose résumé ticks all the boxes still faces very real prospects of rejection.

For a furthered perspective, in 2014 one top-tier firm reported receiving approximately 3,000 seasonal clerkship applications. Of that figure, about 2% were offered positions. Of that percentage, presumably, even fewer will be kept on as graduate trainee lawyers.

For some, ‘adaptation’ will mean not practicing law. The beauty of a law degree is that the skills it teaches you are not only adaptable to other industries, but are highly regarded and desirable. Fret not that these trying years have been in vain, this qualification will serve you well in finding employment in other industries.

For those who are determined to become commercial lawyers, adapt to the parameters the current environment has set. Research what areas of law are experiencing growth and a consequent demand for people, and talk to people in the field. Find where the niche markets are and adapt your credentials so you are the supply that meets the demand. Also, look at in-house, suburban, and government opportunities, not all the work is necessarily in the big firms themselves.

As for the investigation on which firms are growing and recruiting, I hope the 2015 Seasonal Clerkship Guide will make it easier for you, and accordingly assist you in navigating the stressful pathway to seasonal clerkships and graduate traineeships. Best of luck with your applications and future endeavours.

Andrew Vicendese, Vice-President of Commercial Careers, Deakin Law Students’ Society, Burwood

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Foreword

The knowledge you will gain after completing your Deakin LLB equips you to succeed in a large number of careers. Deakin Law focuses on training students principally to become commercial lawyers. However, the breadth, rigour and complexity of the program equips students with important skills and attributes which are transferable to a large number of different settings.

The problem-solving, research, communication and persuasive skills Deakin LLB graduates have equips them to be high level lawyers, but also to succeed in other industries, including politics, media, and financial services. Furthermore, students will have the ability and confidence to make their own careers and give ‘themselves a job’ by creating their own business.

The feedback from Deakin Law students regarding their capacity to secure employment is excellent, as indeed is the feedback from the profession. In 2013, The Law Institute of Victoria undertook a survey of first and second year law graduates from all Victorian law schools (Law Graduates of the Future Survey 2011–12). The objective of the survey was to ‘gauge the preparedness of law graduates for the practice of law’. Respondent graduates indicated the extent to which they felt that their university education prepared them for their legal career. The survey showed that Deakin graduates scored higher than all other law school graduates across all five reported criteria (Knowledge, Ethics & Professionalism, Thinking Skills, Research Skills and Communication & Collaboration). The survey showed that Deakin graduates scored higher than all other law school graduates across all five reported criteria with the exception of two sub-criteria for research skills and one sub-criteria for Thinking Skills (Deakin was second on these sub-criteria). The law school has a strong focus on teaching practical skills throughout its program and hence these results are not surprising but of course they are pleasing.

Whatever your intended career path, this year’s Guide will assist by providing you with valuable insights into the various options open to you as a law graduate.

Alternatively, a significant number of you will aspire to have careers outside private legal practice. For example, within the legal field there are opportunities for community and volunteer work, advocacy within non-government organisations in Australia or abroad, corporate inhouse options and work within the public service and government agencies such as the ACCC, ATO or ASIC. Irrespective of your current ambition or where you start out in your career after you graduate it is important that you keep an open mind to future career prospects. It is unlikely that your first job will be your ideal job – life is rarely that simple. In forging your career, there are certain principles and ideals that you should always pursue. First, whatever you do, do it well. Do not take on too much. Be diligent and contentious. Quality of work is always more important than quantity. Try to find something that you are passionate about. If you cannot find a passion in career, make sure you find it in your personal life – life is too short to be joyless for long periods. Resilience is desirable, but deferred happiness can be taken too far. Always have the confidence to back your own informed judgement. Also, treat people well. It is impossible to predict which person can ultimately shape your career - and even more importantly, treating all people with respect and a degree of concern is cardinal to enhancing community flourishing.

I commend the 2015 Seasonal Clerkship Guide to you and congratulate those involved for the effort put into its production.

Professor Mirko Bagaric Dean, School of Law Deakin University

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From Law Student to Lawyer…12 International Admission to Practice Requirements…13 Law Institute of Victoria…14 LIV Schedule of Dates…15 LIV Clerkship and Traineeship Guidelines…16 Practical Legal Training…18 Australian National University Legal Workshop…19 The College of Law…22 Leo Cussen Centre for Law…24 — 11 —

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from law student to lawyer —

Law Degree

Seasonal Clerkship

Practical Legal Training (Graduate diploma of legal practice)

Graduate Traineeship (Supervised workplace Training)

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INTERNATIONAL ADMISSION TO PRACTICE REQUIREMENTS —

When you consider the various legal industries beyond the borders of Australia, the opportunities are endless. Often the most straightforward way to admission in foreign jurisdictions is via a transfer scheme or sitting the relevant bar exam. This is an overview of some common routes to practicing law in other countries. There are a number of alternative pathways and it will be essential to investigate these further.

Prospective advocates must complete a traineeship at a Law Society approved firm.

Singapore

Requires a JD or LLM from an approved university. Persons seeking admission must sit the Bar Examination and complete a six-month Practice Training Contract.

More information:

www.mlaw.gov.sg/practising-as-a-lawyer/admission

The United States

Requires a Juris Doctor (JD) or Masters of Law (LLM). Graduates with a bachelor degree will be eligible to study either. Graduates then need to pass the relevant state bar exam. Australian graduates can sit state bar exams in some states such as New York, but not others. Admission requirements vary from state to state.

More information:

Hong Kong

Requires an LLB or postgraduate law degree. Also requires a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL), which can be obtained at some universities in Hong Kong. The Overseas Qualified Lawyers Examination will allow foreign lawyers to transfer as solicitors.

Foreign lawyers can be admitted as barristers by passing the Barristers Qualification Examination.

www.nybarexam.org More information:

www.hkba.org/admission-pupillage/general/

England and Wales

Requires a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or JD, and PLT. Lawyers admitted to practice in Australia can transfer through the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) under the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) to practice in England and Wales as solicitors.

More information:

www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/qlts.page www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/qualifying-as-a-barrister/transferring-lawyers/qualified-foreign-lawyers/ Scotland

Requires an undergraduate law degree and a Diploma in Professional Legal Practice which is offered by six universities in Scotland. Prospective solicitors must also complete a two-year traineeship with a law firm.

China

Foreigners can work for foreign law firms in China, however they are not permitted to practice law. The ability of to give legal advice is also heavily restricted

by Chinese law. This is one of the more complicated jurisdictions and it is worth consulting with the firm you are seeking to work at.

Europe

Most states in the EU require an LLM in addition to an LLB. The Diplomas Directive provides that those who have obtained a license or diploma in one state can practice in another state. Some states require membership of bar associations to use the title of ‘lawyer,’ but not to practice law.

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The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) —

The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) is the professional association for the Victorian legal profession.

Established in 1859 and with 19,000 members the LIV has a strong and proud history. Our members have earned the LIV a reputation as a respected leader, contributor and lobbyist on issues of law reform, access to justice and the rule of law. It counts among its membership many judges, solicitors, barristers, legal support staff, and of course law students, who are entitled to free membership.

For practitioners and students alike, the LIV provides numerous opportunities for career development. The LIV has over 70 committees divided into practice sections that bring together practitioners and students with common interests and allow them to develop further in that area. The sections areas include government, international, property and commercial law as well as many more. The sections allow members to network with each other and involvement also permits contribution to policy submissions prepared by the LIV. Further into your legal career, the LIV allows practitioners to become ‘Accredited Specialists’ in their areas of practice. Members can keep up to date with legal developments through the monthly Law Institute Journal, or gain themselves exposure by writing for it. Involvement in the LIC also lets members get involved with the profession in their immediate area, through ten Country Law Associations and six Suburban Law Associations. Practising membership also entitles you to a 10% discount on any purchase at the LIV Bookshop, as well as access to the LIV Library, both of which are located at 470 Bourke Street in the CBD. Young Lawyers’ Section

The Young Lawyers Section (YLS) is a dynamic group established to enhance the legal skills, knowledge and professional networks of members in the early stages of career development and represents approximately 9,000 LIV members. It is free to join the Young Lawyers Section if you are a practitioner under the age of 36; a practitioner over the age of 36

with less than six years of post-admission experience; a Graduate, Trainee or Law Student. The YLS produces the Young Lawyers Journal and organises events such as the annual Golden Gavel and LIV & Hanover Mooting Competition. Membership of the YLS also gives members access to regular opportunities to network and develop their careers.

In particular, any YLS member can join one of the YLS committees by filling out an expression of interest form. The committees meet every 6 weeks at lunchtime, and permit members to get involved in YLS activities.

These include: • Community Issues Committee (responsible for social justice initiatives) • Editorial Committee (responsible for the Young Lawyers Journal) • Later Lawyers’ Network Committee (if law is your second career) • Law Reform Committee (assist with submissions) • Professional Development Committee (without a doubt our most popular and active committee) • Social Committee (which coordinates our social calendar) You can also get your name out there by writing for and being published in the Young Lawyers Blog.

If you would like any further information please email younglaw@liv.asn.au.

Joel Silver, 2015 YLS President

My career path is unusual. I did a Bachelor of Laws at Melbourne Law School (I was in the last intake), and after receiving no clerkship offers, I completed Practical Legal Training at the Leo Cussen Institute. My final year had been brought forward when I changed my course plan, meaning I never had a penultimate year. The LIV Guidelines had just been introduced, and the penultimate year requirement was applied strictly, meaning I was ineligible to clerk. As I could not find work in law after admission in August 2011 I commenced as a staffer to a frontbencher in the

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then-Abbott Opposition. This experience greatly assisted in developing my work ethic. My return to law a year later, however, was short-lived. I was a solicitor in an insurance law firm, launching and defending actions by insurers in motor vehicle accidents.

Unfortunately it was not a good fit.

A year later I was informed that I had passed the Victorian Bar Entrance Exam, which I sat when it became clear the legal market was not improving. The intervening period, as an applicant in an incredibly tight job market, was difficult to say the least, though I had continued to practise as a volunteer lawyer at Peninsula Community Legal Centre. I also became involved with the LIV after a friend recommended I join the Law Reform Committee. I was elected to co-chair that committee, together with a good friend from Law School. During this period I was preparing for the Entrance Exam, which at the time was entirely closed book. This was an intense process, to which I dedicated three months to committing all information of potential relevance to memory, as I had done in VCE. I undertook the Bar Readers’ Course in March 2014, and after accepting an offer to join Gordon and Jackson (or ‘List S,’ after founding clerk Ken Spurr),

I signed the roll two months later. I now practise in commercial law, with a focus on building and construction. While I only decided on this practice area some months earlier, after I took a Masters’ subject, and as my father and grandfather are both qualified architects I already had a feel for the area. This also was important in choosing a mentor. After making enquiries, I was introduced to Jeremy Twigg (who took silk near the end of my reading period), who runs a busy construction practice, and gave me numerous opportunities to learn throughout my reading period.

Because the Bar is an uncertain place, where you need to be prepared for the quiet times, you seize the opportunities that come your way. For example, as a participant in the Duty Barrister Scheme, I answered an email seeking a junior for a Supreme Court banking matter. I got along well with Paul Hayes, the barrister who made the request (and on whose floor I now have chambers), and ended up making my first appearance with him in another matter, which was in the Court of Appeal. Less exciting, but also a good illustration, I have also done work as a seasonal academic for Deakin, where I did some marking for Workplace Law (another area of interest).

LIV Traineeship & Seasonal Clerkship SCHEDULE OF DATES —

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Seasonal Clerkship Application Period Opens Traineeship Market Application Period Opens Traineeship Priority Offers Made Traineeship Priority Offers Close Seasonal Clerkship Application Period Closes Traineeship Market Application Period Closes Traineeship Market Offers Made Seasonal Clerkship Offers Made

Monday, 13 July 2015, 9am Monday, 20 July 2015, 9am Tuesday, 11 August 2015, 10am Thursday, 13 August 2015, 4pm Sunday,16 August 2015, 11.59pm Sunday, 23 August 2015, 11.59pm Monday, 28 September 2015, 10am Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 10am — 15 —

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LIV Seasonal Clerkship Guidelines 2015 —

1 To be eligible to apply for seasonal clerkships a student must be in their final or penultimate year of study, that is, they intend to commence their final semester in 2016. Students who have already completed their law degree are eligible to apply; however, applications will be accepted at the discretion of each firm.

2 Applications for seasonal clerkships will open no earlier than 9am on, Monday 13 July 2015.

3 Applications for seasonal clerkships will close no later than 11:59pm on Sunday, 16 August 2015.

4 Any offer made under these guidelines relates to clerkships within a one year period from the date of offer, but can be extended in circumstances agreed between the student and the firm for a further one year period if a student requests a deferral of the clerkship.

5 Any offer of clerkship must remain open for a minimum period of 24 hours from the time the offer was made or until 11am the following business day for offers made prior to 11am, subject to paragraph 5(a): a. Students must not hold more than four seasonal clerkship offers for a period of more than 2 hours.

6 Law firms will not make offers concerning

seasonal clerkships before 10am, Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time on Tuesday, 13 October 2015.

7 Law firms who have entered sponsorship arrang ements with disadvantaged students, such as those employed under the Indigenous Cadetship Program, are exempt from complying with the Guidelines in relation to those students.

8 A firm may withdraw from the guidelines by giving (30) days written notice of its intention to the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV), the law faculties and law student societies at all Victorian law schools.

9 The LIV will maintain an up to date list of all signatory firms which will be publically available on the LIV website.

10 Please note that students are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the firm’s clerkship application policy to which they are applying.

11 Signatory firms are not obligated to offer seasonal clerkships each year but must follow the Seasonal Clerkship Guidelines in the event that they do.

For a full list of current opportunities please visit the Seasonal Clerkship & Recruitment Registry at www.liv.asn.au/For-Lawyers/Careers-Centre /Seasonal-Clerkship-Graduate-Jobs or contact signatory firms directly.

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1 Applications for graduate traineeships will open no earlier than 9am on Monday, 20 July 2015.

2 Applications for graduate traineeships will close no later than 11:59pm on Sunday 23 August 2015.

3 Subject to paragraph three (a) any offer made under these guidelines relates to a graduate traineeship commencing in 2016, it is open to students who have already completed their law degree or students who will commence their final semester in 2015. a. Successful applicants who have already completed their law degree are eligible to commence their graduate traineeship prior

to 2016 by agreement between the firm and the applicant.

4 An applicant who, due to ‘genuine necessity’, will be unable to attend an interview during the interview period, should apply to the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) for permission to either: a. be interviewed at an earlier date; or b. by electronic means if the applicant is overseas at the time of the genuine necessity application and will not return prior to, or during the interview period. The form of electronic means is to be agreed upon between the firm and the applicant.

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‘Genuine necessity’ is defined as the need to be outside of Victoria during the interview period, for the purpose of postgraduate study, work experience or other purpose deemed reasonable by the LIV. Applications should be made to the LIV Young Lawyers’ Section Manager in writing and include appropriate supporting documentation. Written permission is to be granted at the sole discretion of the LIV. 5 Interstate law students who commence formal semester classes on or before Monday 31 August 2015 may be interviewed by individual arrangement prior to that date in the year in which it is anticipated the student will commence his or her final semester provided that no offers or arrangements concerning traineeships are made other than in accordance with paragraph seven.

6 Except as provided in paragraphs eight, nine and ten, law firms will not make offers or arrangements concerning traineeships before 10am, Eastern Standard Time on Monday, 28 September 2015. Graduate traineeships can be deferred in circumstances agreed between the student and the firm for further one year period if a student requests a deferral of the traineeship.

7 Except as provided in paragraph ten, an offer of traineeship will remain open for a period of not less than twenty-four (24) hours from the time the offer was made or until 11am the following business day for offers made prior to 11am. Firms should make this known to students at the time of making offers in accordance with paragraph six.

8 Law firms who have entered sponsorship arrangements with disadvantaged students, such as those employed under the Indigenous Cadetship Program, are exempt from complying with these guidelines in relation to those students.

9 Law firms may make ‘priority offers’ of traineeships to eligible students in accordance with paragraph three on the dates set out in paragraph ten, to the following students: a. students who within the previous two years preceding the date of making the offer referred to in paragraph ten, have substantially completed seasonal clerkships of at least two weeks’ duration with the offering firm, either in Victoria or at one of the firm’s interstate or international offices; b. students who during the previous two years and for a minimum period of 30 working days, have performed paralegal work for the offering firm, either in Victoria or at one of the firm’s interstate or international offices.

10 The ‘priority offers’ made under paragraph nine can be made between 10am on Tuesday, 11 August 2015 and 12.00pm on Thursday, 13 August 2015. A ‘priority offer’ must remain open until the earlier of acceptance/rejection in accordance with paragraphs ten (a) & ten (b) or 4.00pm on Thursday, 13 August 2015. a. An applicant will not hold more than two ‘priority offers’ for longer than a 2 hour period; b. An applicant must accept/ reject any ‘priority offer’ received within 4 business hours of it being made (i.e. offers made at 10am will be open for acceptance/ rejection until 2pm the same day) unless the priority offer is made on or after 3pm in which case the priority offer must be accepted/ rejected by 10am the next day.

For the purpose of this clause ‘business hours’ is defined as the period between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

11 Firms intending to make priority offers are not permitted to interview applicants or to make offers or arrangements concerning traineeships prior to making a priority offer. It is accepted that firms invite students to express their interest in being considered for a priority offer at the conclusion of their clerkship.

12 A firm may withdraw from the guidelines by giving (30) days written notice of its intention to the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV), the law faculties and law student societies at all Victorian law schools.

13 The LIV will maintain an up to date list of all signatory firms which will be publically available on the LIV website. 14 Signatory firms are not obligated to offer traineeships each year but must follow the Traineeship Guidelines in the event that they do. For a full list of current opportunities please visit the Seasonal Clerkship & Recruitment Registry at www.liv.asn.au/ForLawyers/Careers-Centre/Seasonal-ClerkshipGraduate-Jobs or contact signatory firms directly.

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Practical legal training —

WHAT IS IT?

WHERE CAN I DO IT?

To be admitted as a legal practitioner to the Supreme Court of Victoria, you must first complete a Practical Legal Training (PLT) course or a Supervised Workplace Training programme. Successful completion of a PLT course results in the awarding of a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice which then makes you eligible to apply for admission as a Legal Practitioner.

PLT is usually taken after completing a law degree, however, permission can be sought from the Council of Legal Education Board of Examiners to commence your PLT course prior to completing your degree. As the name suggests, you will learn in a simulated legal environment where you will be given practical legal tasks to complete. These tasks include interviewing clients, drafting legal documents, negotiation, advocacy and legal research. Essentially, PLT prepares you for practice.

There are three PLT providers in Australia, These Include: • Australian National University Legal Workshop • The College of Law • Leo Cussen Centre for Law

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?

THINGS TO CONSIDER

Typically, PLT courses range from 15 weeks to 30 weeks, depending on whether they are taken in a fulltime or part-time arrangement.

It is worth contemplating whether you wish to complete your practical legal training online or onsite. In making this decision you should consider factors such as the level of flexibility you require and whether you wish to work in an actual office environment.

You should also consider whether you are confident in finding your own placement as part of the program or whether you will need to be allocated to one.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

PLT costs around $9,500 depending on where you choose to complete it. The course will cost less if you already have work experience which is approved as counting towards the completion of your PLT course.

FEE-HELP is available.

HOW DO I GET IN?

Each institution will have its own unique application procedure, but generally, it involves filling in some forms and submitting your academic transcript and résumé. They ask for the transcript and résumé so they can assess whether you intend to make the most of the course. Students who can display an intention to make the most of their prospective PLT course will naturally be selected over students who fail to demonstrate genuineness.

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Australian National University legal workshop 5 Fellows Road, Acton ACT 2601

Be part of something bigger

What, When and How

ANU Legal Workshop at The Australian National University (ANU) is the largest and oldest universitybased professional legal training program.

In 2015, we are excited to introduce our new Master of Legal Practice (MLP) featuring the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP).

Practical Legal Training (PLT) by way of a Master of Legal Practice (MLP) featuring the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP) from one of Australia’s leading law schools, with direct admission to practice in NSW, VIC, QLD, ACT, WA, TAS and NT and reciprocal admission in SA. 5-day face-to-face intensive BAP course ≥ ANU Legal Workshop PLT is delivered in Adelaide, Armidale, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Gold Coast, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Townsville and Wollongong.

The Professional Practice Core (PPC), an 18week online course which takes place in an online, simulated, transactional, team work learning environment ≥ January and July start dates

The program at a glance

We start with our Becoming a Practitioner (BAP) course, then how you put your PLT jigsaw together is up to you as long as you have the following pieces of the puzzle: 1 The PPC (compulsory subjects); and 2 The Electives (choose between two to five, depending on the number of work placement days you choose); and 3 Work experience placement.

We accept 20, 40, 60 or 80 day placements because we know you have other commitments and need flexibility to juggle your course work and work experience.

We provide financial assistance to students who take up a placement in one of Australia’s community legal centres through our Regional, Rural and Remote (RRR) Placement Program because we believe in assisting students who wish to gain experience in bringing access to justice to Australians most in need.

The Electives:

• online courses ≥ between two and four start dates in 2015 • 5-day face-to-face intensive ≥ various start dates throughout 2015 in various locations all around Australia The team behind the lawyers of tomorrow

Our team of practitioner teachers are the foundation of our program. Drawing on the experience from former judicial officers to partners in law firms to principal legal officers in government departments, we know that it takes a dynamic, passionate and diverse legal community to teach the lawyers of tomorrow.

The ANU edge

Once you complete the GDLP component of the MLP course, you are eligible for admission…and here’s the best part, in addition to getting admitted, you can graduate with a GDLP (for those not wanting to study any more); or continue with your course work and graduate with a Masters (for those who miss the good old Law Library days); or if you’re not sure, you have two years to think about it.

Whatever option you choose, you’ll attain a qualification from one of Australia’s leading law schools.

Your professional journey starts here

So why not take the plunge and take the first step of your legal professional journey with us!

Information

W: law.anu.edu.au/legalworkshop/mlp P: 02 6125 4463 E: lwsa.law@anu.edu.au facebook.com/ANULegalWorkshop

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ANU Graduate Spotlight Sara, Second Year Lawyer In House at Top 4 Accounting Firm Graduated in 2012 Graduated from ANU Legal Workshop in 2013

I chose ANU Legal Workshop to undertake my practical legal training because of its reputation. I was attracted to the idea of gaining a qualification from ANU as I knew it would really open up doors for me in the future.

I really enjoyed the intensive course (the BAP course) which I did in Sydney. It was a huge course (with over 100 students) but the teachers were all really good at getting to know each of us and giving us personal feedback and attention. The intensive course was exhausting but I really feel I learnt a lot. Getting on your feet with minimal preparation is terrifying but it certainly made you realise what real practice would be like.

The PPC course, which was online, was perfect for me. I was working full-time in a really demanding job and the fact that I could do it out of office hours and on weekends was (although not fun sometimes) what allowed me to finish and get admitted in less than 6 months.

I had a fairly good team to work with throughout the PPC. While there were definitely tense moments and knocking of heads, if I reflect back on it now it really taught me a lot in terms of accepting that different people work in different ways, how to manage my time and work to other people’s deadlines as well as mine, the ability to work to some tight timeframes, how to think outside the square when faced with a problem, etc.

It was definitely a challenging time for me – juggling full-time work as well as studying, but I’m so glad I persevered to finish it in one semester. It meant I became an admitted lawyer that much earlier. And that makes giving up a few late nights and weekends worthwhile.

I haven’t done the GDLP with another PTC provider so I can’t really make comparisons but I think going to ANU for mine really does give me an edge because wherever I go and whatever I decide to do in the future, having a degree from ANU is something that’s recognised all around the world.

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The College of Law Level 6, 459 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

• 28 September 2015 – online full-time and online part-time

Australia’s Largest Provider of Practical Legal Training

The College of Law sets the standard for Practical Legal Training (PLT) in Australia. The College is Australia’s largest provider of PLT, with campuses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. We also conduct programs in Adelaide, Canberra and regional Queensland, as well as onsite sessions in London.

While we have a national approach which reflects an increasingly national profession, our course materials and lecturers are state-based to ensure that local variations in practice are incorporated into our programs. You get the best of both worlds.

The College of Law Advantage

The College’s PLT program combines structured training with on-the-job experience and is designed to ensure that you are equipped to make a contribution quickly to your chosen workplace.

We offer the choice of full-time online, parttime online and part-time online evening courses. For the College’s online courses, more than 85% of the coursework component is delivered online, it will allow you the flexibility to manage other commitments and have 24 hour access to resources.

Students are on campus for 10 days of face-toface onsites where you will participate in skills workshops, role plays (eg. advocacy), simulations (eg. conducting a conveyancing settlement) and feedback sessions under the guidance of our lecturers.

In addition to the structured activities, our lecturers are available to you for assistance when required in person or by phone and email.

All assessments are individually-based – there are no group assessments.

Start Dates Scheduled Throughout the Year

Dates for the remainder of the year will be announced in September 2015.

Work Experience Options

Choose from two work experience options to suit your circumstances: • Option A – 25 days + the Clinical Experience Module which can be placed on FEE-HELP • Option B – 75 days of work experience.

To assist our students to find work experience, The College of Law Victoria and the Law Institute of Victoria have partnered together to source placements.

We are working with the profession to find opportunities that meet the requirements of the work experience component of The College’s PLT program.

The Career College

In addition to The College’s PLT program, we also offer fully-accredited postgraduate programs in Masters of Laws, Master of Applied Law (Family Law) and the Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution Practice (FDRP).

Students who have completed their Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice can receive up to two subjects credit towards their Master of Laws.

More Information

For course dates or more information about our PLT program visit The College of Law website www.collaw.edu.au/plt, or contact the Student Services Team on 1300 856 111 or enrolments@collaw.edu.au.

Make the right choice for your future career and enrol in Practical Legal Training with The College of Law.

Only The College of Law offers more than six starting dates throughout the year, not just twice a year as most university PLT providers do. Upcoming dates are: • 20 July 2015 – online full-time and online part-time • 27 July – online part-time evening — 22 —

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Leo Cussen Centre for Law 360 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne

• Visiting legal practitioners as instructors • Current Matter file program – run simulated client files within your own PTC ‘law firm’ • Extensive advocacy training • Collegial environment with the opportunity to build friendships and professional networks that can last your entire career • Career and Professional Placement Assistance. In the onsite course, the Professional Placement is sourced for you • Employment Register for graduates • FEE-HELP available

PRACTICAL TRAINING COURSE (PTC) GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LEGAL PRACTICE

Leo Cussen has been operating since 1972 and provides high quality practical legal training and professional development programs for entry-level lawyers through to senior legal practitioners.

The Leo Cussen experience enables law graduates to learn how to practise law in a professional, yet friendly and engaging environment. Our Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice is comprehensive and well respected by legal employers. Employers may sponsor their graduate employee to do the course.

Successful completion of the Practical Training Course (PTC) entitles you to apply for admission to the legal profession as an Australian Lawyer which, in turn, entitles you to practise as an Australian Legal Practitioner in any Australian jurisdiction.

Your Choice: PTC Onsite or Online

Online delivery offers flexibility to those who have work or family commitments and who enjoy the discipline of learning within a small online community.

The Onsite course suits those looking for a training experience with face-to-face teaching and learning.

It also suits those on overseas student visas.

Online trainees attend for intensive teaching blocks and mentor consultations during the course.

In the Onsite course you attend each business day from 9am to 5pm. In the full time Online course, you will need to commit at least 25 hours a week to your PTC work. We also offer a part time Online PTC.

Current Matter Program

Set up your own ‘law firm’ and run up to 10 simulated files covering a wide range of practice areas and presenting a range of legal and practical problems reflecting those you encounter in real-world legal practice. We operate an in- house registry and banking facility to assist the simulation of real practice.

Course Reference Materials

A detailed set of reference materials provided for each practice topic is a resource during the Course and a handy reference in your first year of legal practice.

Mentors

You work in a small group with the guidance of one of our staff. All of our training staff are experienced lawyers. Their job is to help you develop your practical legal skills, professional values and confidence to work as an entry level lawyer.

The Learning Experience

The Practical Training Course (PTC) is founded on the principle of ‘learning by doing’ and is designed to lead you to reach the required Competencies in an active and practical training environment.

Features of the PTC

• Building of practical legal skills in a broad range of practice areas • Mentoring by in-house legal training staff who guide your professional development

Collegiality

You form friendships during the course and begin to build the personal and professional networks that support you during your entire career. PTC trainees organise a variety of social activities during the course to make sure the fun doesn’t disappear in the midst of all the hard work.

CONTACT INFORMATION

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Aimee Vogler, Administrator, Practical Training Course P: 03 9602 3111 E: ptcadmin@leocussen.vic.edu.au

and family litigation.

I now work in the Litigation and Insolvency Group as a Commercial Litigator at Frenkel Partners Lawyers in Melbourne’s CBD. My position is challenging but rewarding as I get to tackle new issues every day and continually develop and better my appearance work, document drafting, advice, interpersonal skills and file management.

I still keep in contact with people from the PTC and it is great to see how far we have all come since commencing the course a few years ago.

COURSE DETAILS AND APPLICATION

24 weeks including three weeks professional placement.

2 intakes a year (online/onsite).

Commencing January and July.

2015/2016

July 2015: Apply by 15 May 2015 January 2016: Apply by 20 November 2015 Later applications are accepted and considered in order of receipt.

Forms are available at: www.leocussen.vic.edu.au/apply FEE-HELP is available for eligible applicants.

A Leo Cussen Graduate Shares Their Story Amanda Jowett, Lawyer Frenkel Partners Lawyers

Throughout my time at Leo Cussen, I refined the skills necessary to embark on my legal career. One of the most important skills I learnt was managing my work flow on a variety of current matter files dealing with diverse practice areas including criminal law, property law and civil litigation. These files required students to interview mock clients, meet with opponents and appear at hearings to further their client’s case. Such experience was invaluable as I had never been exposed to the day to day operations of practice prior to commencing at Leo Cussen.

Leo Cussen allowed me to put those skills to the test through a three-week placement towards the completion of the PTC, which I arranged at a small practice in Glen Iris. I hit the ground running on placement and on graduating from Leo Cussen, the principal lawyer offered me a part-time position.

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The application Process

CV, Cover Letter & Interview Tips…30 Example CV…33 Holy Grails…35 Where to Go and Why…38 5 Reasons to be a Seasonal Clerk…39 — 29 —

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CV, Cover Letter & Interview Tips Sam Hall

– If you have any awards, have studied abroad, have travelled, speak another language etc…this is a good place to introduce it.

• One or two paragraphs covering your legal or other experience.

– Explain what you took away from each experience and what you could bring to a seasonal clerkship.

– It doesn’t need to be only commercial experience. If you have volunteered with Victoria Legal Aid or a community legal centre, state that.

• One or two paragraphs on the firm you are applying for.

– This is where your research should shine.

And I don’t mean just the fact that they are a ‘leading commercial law firm’.

Sure, it’s great to include this, and to highlight some of the firm’s strengths.

However, find something about each firm that you are genuinely interested in.

Explain why this makes the firm stand out to you, and why you want to clerk there.

• Conclude with something else about yourself.

– A strong finish is to conclude with certain skills or attributes you have that make you a suitable candidate for X clerkship.

curriculum vitae

• Keep it consistent – Ensure the headings, text, and structure of your CV are consistent throughout.

• Restrict it to two-three pages.

• Use headings-useful headings can include: Education, Legal Experience, Employment, Voluntary Experience, Interests, Professional Memberships, and Referees etc.

• Include any travel you have done or hobbies/ sport you participate in under the interests section. This can help set you apart.

• Use easy to understand language with short sentences (dot points).

• Include two-three dot points under each experience highlighting your responsibilities and the skills you have obtained.

• Check each firm’s requirements for applications – some will have a preference for how you should structure your CV or what they want you to include.

• Have your name prominently displayed at the top of the page where you have your contact details.

• Proof read and get others to review it for you.

Cover Letter

Cover letters are difficult. It is not easy to get everything into one A4 page. However, when done correctly it is a very rewarding task. Here are some simple tips to help you.

Keep things simple

Write concisely and to the point. Recruiters can be reading up to 1,000 cover letters, so any long and confusing sentences are not likely to be received positively.

Stick to one A4 page and don’t try to rewrite your entire CV. CVs are two-three pages for a reason.

Your cover letter is meant to be a snapshot of your CV, and to entice the reader to want to know more about you.

Have a structure

It doesn’t matter what structure you use, just try to make sure there is some sort of order to your cover letter. The order I used is as follows: • Introductory paragraph stating what you are applying for, your degree and academic results

This is just one structure for a cover letter. The order and what is included is by no means a secret formula. I believe recruiters just want to see that you have good academic results, have work/life experience, and that there is something that makes you, you.

Do your research

You’ll hear this from everyone…“Tailor your cover letter”. I strongly recommend that you follow this advice.

It is very easy for recruiters to see when a cover letter has not been tailored. They see thousands of these, and want to see applicants that are truly interested in their firm.

Do your research on each firm you apply for.

Start early, because this can be a lengthy process.

A great starting point is the firm profiles in this Guide. It will largely provide you with the information you need to know about each firm. Why stop there though? Wouldn’t you be more interested if an

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applicant showed that they went over and above and really did their research?

Useful resources include firm websites and Chambers and Partners. Chambers can give you a flavour of where a firm’s strengths lay and provide a direction for further research into those practice areas.

Firm websites often include recent awards and other things that may be of interest to you.

Whatever you find and decide to write about, make sure there is a connection to you. Elaborate on why this has sparked your interest in the firm. It doesn’t have to be purely commercial. You may want to work for a firm because of their strengths in the commercial market, but equally because they have a very strong focus on pro bono or community work.

Just be genuine with your interest.

It is about you

Be sure to bring your cover letter back to you. This can include covering the following: • Why you want to work there.

• Why you would be a good fit.

• What you can bring to the firm.

Proof read

Read and reread your cover letters again and again.

It is very easy for your eyes to glance over a grammatical error (though, thought etc.). Print when you are proof reading. Reviewing on a screen is not the same.

When you think your cover letter is perfect, get a friend to proofread it.

Double and triple check that you have the addressee’s details correct on the letter. This includes spelling of their name, job title, organisation spelling and address. Any errors with these details can see you out of the race before it has even begun. interviews Preparation is critical

Do your research on the position you are interviewing for. Find out what the firm does, who their largest clients are, where their strengths lay and areas of focus. Identify what the role you are applying for entails. Speak to HR and lawyers of the firm before your interview. This can show you are enthusiastic and inquisitive. It will also allow you to have some more informed questions for your interviewers. When you are prepared you will be more calm, confident and project the real you to the interviewers.

Know your CV

In most (if not all) interviews, you will be asked about your CV. Whether it’s the legal experience you have at XY Firm, work as a sales assistant, or fundraising

you have done for Y Charity…be prepared to speak about anything and everything on your CV. Take time before your interview to jot down key activities for each of your experiences. Also make a note of the skills you have gained or what you have learned from each role. Having this information fresh in your mind will allow you to present a positive learning experience to your interviewers.

You can respond to queries about your experience with the key responsibilities and skills you have drawn from each experience.

It’s also beneficial to think of questions you may be asked about each role, and prepare brief responses. e.g. if you volunteered at a community legal centre, you may be asked about the most difficult matter you have worked on etc. Having brief answers pre-prepared will allow you to remain confident during an interview.

Practice

Once you have prepared for your interview and it is approaching, ask friends or family to test your knowledge. Give them a list of questions that you have prepared for and get them to ask you the questions randomly. Each time you do this, get feedback from your family and friends. Note down where you think you could improve, and use this to build and improve for the real thing. The more practice you get in, the more confident you will be for your actual interview.

Preparing for behavioural questions

You can expect anywhere from one to ten behavioural questions in an interview. Some of the key themes or behavioural type questions include: teamwork, leadership, handling stress, resolving conflict, handling criticism, resilience, initiative, etc.

My tip is to prepare a response for each. Think of a specific example from your work, university or voluntary experience, and outline the following: • What was the situation; • What did you do; • How did your action assist the situation; and • What did you take away/learn from this.

Having a specific example, and being able to draw out what you did/learned from the experience, enables you to really showcase your skills.

Be yourself

Let your personality shine through in an interview. Do not try and be something that you think the interviewers want to see. Employers can see straight through that. Employers want to see that you have a personality and can bring something diverse to their workplace.

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Being yourself in an interview allows both the interviewer, and yourself, to determine whether the position/firm is right for you. So be yourself and if you don’t get the job, then it wasn’t meant to be.

These sort of workplace-based questions are difficult to answer on the spot. Spend a little time thinking about, or discussing with colleagues, potential curly ones that could arise in an interview.

Actively listen

Pay close attention when your interviewers are speaking during the interview. If something interests you, ask them questions. Asking questions shows you are interested in the role and work at the firm.

Present well

During an interview it is beneficial to: • Sit upright with your shoulders back and with your hands together in front of you (this will stop you from using your hands too much and distracting an interviewer); • Maintain eye contact with your interviewers.

Be sure to share your eye contact with every interviewer if there are multiple.

• Take a deep breath before responding to any question. This will prevent your voice from sounding too nervous and give you a little time to prepare a response in your head.

Bad interviews

Don’t get too down on yourself if you don’t think the interview went well. Jot down difficult parts of the interview, or questions you weren’t prepared for.

Prepare responses for these, and have answers ready if you are asked them again at another interview.

Random things to consider

Keep abreast of the current business climate. Read the Financial Review or similar publications in the months leading up to clerkship interviews. This will assist with developing a ‘commercial acumen’ and will give you something to talk about if ever asked…

“What is a current business/legal transaction that you have followed?”

Think of a High Court case that you could discuss in an interview should the need arise. Some applications ask you what is your favourite. Some interviewers also ask this question. It’s best to have a think about this before the process just in case.

Consider the area you are going into. The legal environment is often demanding and clients need immediate answers. Think about potential questions that may arise such as: • You have sent a client a memo containing a mistake. What do you do?

• A partner is out of contact and the client is demanding immediate advice. How do you respond?

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Good luck and enjoy the process.

Sam was a seasonal clerk in 2014/2015

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Example CV

Stuart Dent A: 1 Example Road, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 412 345 678 E: stuart.dent@gmail.com

Having a second language is an asset so make it one of the first things they read.

Additional Languages: Mandarin (fluent) Education

The order of your headings is important. It should be a logical progression from heading to heading.

Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Commerce Deakin University, Burwood

Mar 2011 – Present

• Weighted Average Mark: 72 • Commerce Major: Accounting • Expected date of completion: October 2016 • Awards: Ian Smyth Property Law Award 2014, Browns Lawyers Senior Moot winner 2015 Student Exchange University of London, London

Sep 2014 – Feb 2015

• International Commercial Law • Energy and Resources Law • World Trade • Auditing Victorian Certificate of Education Smithson College, Melbourne

2006 – 2011

• ATAR: 95.75 Legal Experience

Given that you’re applying for a legal job, make your previous legal experience one of the first things they read.

Law Clerk Smith & Jones Lawyers

Jan 2012 – Present 2 days per week

• Client communication • Drafting letters, counsel briefs, Wills, and Powers of Attorney • Legal research tasks concerning property and employment law matters Assistant to Counsel John Smith QC

February 2014 1 week placement

• Organising counsel briefs • Legal research tasks concerning intellectual property and construction law matters • Supreme Court attendance Pg 1 Continued over next page ≥

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Save the file as CV-Name and as a PDF.

Employment

Sales Consultant The Clothing Co.

Jan 2011 – Present 20 hours per week

Make the first point the most relevant to legal work. Roles in customer service indicate that you will know how to handle and talk to clients.

• Providing quality customer service • Meeting store KPIs • Maintaining and updating product knowledge Piano Teacher Self-Employed

Clearly explain how many hours per week you commit to each activity so that the reader can see that you’re busy.

Jan 2010 – Nov 2010 5 hours per week

• Organising structured lessons • Tailoring teaching methods according to the student Co-Curricular Experience

Vice-President (Commercial Careers) Deakin Law Students’ Society

Oct 2014 – Oct 2015 Full Time

• Communication and organisation of initiatives with firm representatives • Executing initiatives including the Commercial Careers Fair, Meet the Professionals networking night, and Seasonal Clerkship and Graduate Traineeship Guide • Managing a team of Officers and delegating tasks Volunteer Vinnie’s Soup Van

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 5 hours per week

• Distributing food to Melbourne’s homeless • Organising of logistics for food drops St John’s Repatriation Hospital

Jul 2012 – Jan 2013 3 hours per week

• Assisting nurses distribute meals to patients • Lifting patient’s spirits through conversation HR read hundreds of resumes and cover letters. Distinguish yourself by listing something unusual that you do.

Interests

Travel • Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary, Honduras, USA, UK, Zimbabwe Competing • Cage fighting • Dog grooming

Make your references available upon request. References aren’t needed for seasonal clerkships.

As the phrase suggests, if needed they will request it.

References are available upon request Pg 2

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Holy Grails Dylan O’Keefe

There are a number of ‘holy grails’ that you will have been told to strive for from the moment you began law to the moment you finally sign that coveted employment contract over half a decade later. The first would have simply been to pass Contract Law! If you are reading this, then I presume you’ve achieved that one (at least on the second try). From there, you will have begun to hear whispers of ‘clerkships’ and how hard it is to get them. You may have been told that you need straight HDs, solid legal experience, have saved a senior partner’s life and possess some sort of Mike Ross-style photographic memory. Luckily, none of these are strictly true although marks and experience play a crucial role.

If you happen to get one or more clerkships, the next ‘holy grail’ will be a priority offered grad position (which are grad jobs given to previous clerks).

If you do not do any clerkships, you will presumably still be looking for a grad job but for now, we will focus on priority offered grad jobs. This can be the hard part and is unfortunately not completely determined by your skills, knowledge or personality.

There is some luck involved based on the other people you are clerking with, what the market looks like and whether law firms are bracing themselves for the next financial shit-storm. I will tell you a bit about my experiences applying for clerkships, clerking and then trying to figure out what the hell to do when not everything went to plan.

Clerkship Application Process

During the lead-up to the clerkship application process, I learnt very quickly that when it comes to your application, less is more. The HR departments in law firms are so overworked in June/July/August that the last thing they want to do is trawl through your gigantic, tightly spaced cover letter, trying to figure out who the hell you are.

The fact is that if your cover letter, transcript and CV show that you have: • solid marks that are steadily improving or at least staying the same; • some employment history that demonstrates some customer service and team-work; and • a genuine interest in firm you are applying to and the type of law that it practices, then you are in with a very good chance of getting an interview.

There is no exact science for figuring out how to get clerkships. For example you will need less work experience if you have better marks and vice versa, but it all comes down to whether the person reading your application thinks that you are dedicated to your legal career and that you genuinely want to be a part of the firm to which you are applying.

I know that it is hard to do, but if you create a template for your cover letters, try to depart from that template as much as possible for each firm you apply to. HR people can tell when they are reading a template paragraph that has been sent to 10 other firms.

If you write the majority of your cover letter with each particular firm in mind, you will be surprised at how tailored it will become and that is a huge plus for the person reading it.

Once applications are out, you will hopefully receive some emails and calls telling you that you’ve received an interview. At this point you will be invited to cocktail/information evening of the firm.

I remember these as being an alcohol tightrope that I had to walk, drinking just enough to make me seem social and laid back but not too much to make me seem like a liability. It really helps to know other people when going to these evenings otherwise you may find yourself hovering on the edge of the room looking for gap in the throng of admiring hopefuls clustered around a partner.

When it comes to interviewing, know your CV backwards and have, fresh in your mind, all the work, sporting or social activities that you have done and how those experiences can be translated into useful skills in the workplace. This may include being part of any type of team, being involved in customer service and overcoming hurdles to achieve a goal. I remember quite enjoying interviews because, as shamefully narcissistic as this is, it can be rather fun to talk about your achievements and make the most mundane experiences sound like scaling Mount Everest.

8:59am on the morning of clerkship offer day is perhaps the longest minute you will experience in your life, at least until the following year when you are hopefully in the running for that lottery they call grad offers. For me it was quite a pleasant morning.

I received a number of offers and was lucky enough to be able to take my pick of the ones I wanted.

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Clerking

Clerkships are actually quite fun for the most part.

Free food, lots of new mates and lots of drinks on a Friday are generally the highlights. More than that though is the first-hand experience of day-to-day working life at a law firm. Now don’t be completely fooled, you are being shown the glamorous, easygoing North Korea propaganda-style version of working life at a law firm. Your work-load, working hours and endless supply of free muffins are in no way indicative of life as a grad, and actually, the current grads will tell you exactly that. I was very aware that my clerkship experiences were a once-in-a-lifetime deal and that the bubble wrap I had been living in would be stripped away before the ink had dried on the employment contract. Having said that, clerkships are really good for getting a feel for the type of work you will be doing and whether you actually enjoy the corporate workplace. Make sure you talk to your buddy (being a current grad assigned to make sure you don’t somehow die on the firm premises) and ask about his/ her experiences. This is often a better way of gaining insight into the firm than your first-hand experiences.

In order to impress during a clerkship, I was always told to be enthusiastic and to seek out work when your last task dries up. Try and work for as many people in the practice group as possible and volunteer for every opportunity given. Don’t come across as trying to be a hero, just make sure you don’t seem reluctant in any way to get your hands dirty. Now you can take my advice with a grain of salt if you like, considering that, despite doing three clerkships, I did not (*spoilers) receive a grad offer.

At the end of your clerkship you will be given an exit interview by your supervising partner and supervising senior associate. This is very useful as you will get a feel for how you went and can receive some invaluable constructive feedback that could help you further develop your skills. Unfortunately, receiving good or even great feedback does not always translate into receiving a grad offer. It all depends on who else has clerked in the team and how invested your supervising partner is in the recruitment process. The fact is, that if your supervising partner is either too busy or otherwise disinterested in recruitment, he/she is less likely to fight for you when the firm’s recruitment committee is deciding on who makes the cut.

Not getting an offer

On grad offer day, I hope that your phone rings and that your heart leaps in excitement and relief.

However if, like me, you sit around all day listening to the deafening absence of your ringtone, then fear not, because the universe will not compress itself

into a singularity and crush you into the speck of dust that you currently feel like. There is hope, there are jobs and you will be gainfully employed outside of the drug trafficking or sex industry. After that fateful day, I quickly turned my attention on market offers. The LIV publishes a list on its website outlining which firms offer jobs to market applicants (being non-clerkship applicants). This is by no means a comprehensive list however, and you should check the website of each law firm (of other institution) to which you are keen to apply, to view their current opportunities. This can be a difficult time because you are likely to be coming up to your final semester exams so try to time-manage as best you can. I was quite underprepared for market offers and only applied to two firms. I did not end up getting an offer that time round either.

If you find yourself in a similar situation, the thing to do now is keep looking and jump at every opportunity for experience you come across. Hopefully you have close friends who are so outraged at the injustice of your lack of employment that they will pass on every opportunity they come across. This is precisely what happened to me.

Stop-Gap

A good friend of mine, for privacy’s sake let’s call her T Ansari…no wait Talla A (bonus points if you can guess the reference), passed on an email to me that she got from a friend at a law firm about a potential opportunity to work for a government department in their legal team. It just so happened that this government department was responsible for the Future Fund and the 5 person legal team administered global investments worth over $100 billion. I didn’t know it at the time, but I would be working for expartners and ex-senior associates from King & Wood Mallesons, Herbert Smith Freehills and Allens. They were fantastic people to work for and gave me some incredibly hands-on work and skill development.

My 3-month engagement turned into a year and before I knew it, I had an ex-top tier partner telling any firm I applied to that they should hire me immediately (in retrospect, this may have just been to get rid of me). I was offered an ongoing role at the Future Fund but decided that it would not enable me to specialise in my areas of interest so continued to apply for law firm positions with the full support of my supervisors at the Future Fund.

Admission

When I was working at the Future Fund, I decided to do my Practical Legal Training (PLT) and get admitted as a solicitor. After the gruelling pursuit of high

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marks at uni, PLT is so easy and laid back. You just need to pass and I honestly believe you would have to do something pretty drastic to fail a PLT unit. The staff do their very best to make sure everyone passes and you really just focus on meeting new people and having fun. The hard part comes when you actually want to get admitted and the Board of Examiners wants to give your personal life a penetrative rectal examination. The timeframes for submitting the plethora of forms and affidavits are very strict so organisation is the key. I mapped out the deadlines for each document so that I knew what was coming up because if you miss one, it delays your entire admission by at least a month if not more. Once the surgical gloves are off and the Board has begrudgingly admitted that you’re not a completely awful person, you will be entitled to be admitted at the earliest opportunity. Now that you have run around and done all the leg work, you must pay through the nose for the privilege. Finally though, you will be standing before the immense wooden doors of the Supreme Court of Victoria ready to become a lawyer. Pretend to understand the Chief Justice’s speech, listen to the names of a bunch of people you don’t know, say your lines right and you will finally be in a position to be sued for giving someone the wrong advice about the law.

Grad Applications take 2

Now, back to getting a job. So my stop-gap, the Future Fund, was going extremely well and I was quickly learning that studying law and practising law is slightly akin to idly fiddling with some lego and then suddenly becoming an architect. I was well and truly thrown in the deep end but even when that happens, don’t worry, there’s always a couple of floaties around if things get a bit too hard. Hopefully, your supervisors will be more than happy to steer you in the right direction if you’re out of your depth and need a breather. Taking on this challenge is a great way to quickly develop your skills without risking disbarment for negligence. So as I was working, I always kept my ear to the ground and checked the websites of firms I was interested in, looking for opportunities to apply for. I was lucky in that I liked my job at the Future Fund so I did not feel the need to apply to every firm out there. I was slightly choosey and applied for market offers again in September of last year. I only applied to firms that I would genuinely be thrilled to work for because it is not worth getting a permanent position if you are just going to want to move on a year or two later. It is better to stay in a temp role until you find a permanent job that you are at least intending to stick with for a while.

By this time, I was pretty proficient at the formula of

applying for grad jobs. Research – application – cocktail night – interview – anxiously awaiting offer day.

I interviewed at a few places during this period and found that my 9 months of post-uni experience was paying off. I was far more confident in interviews, far more proficient at writing and spotting tiny errors in my application and I had far more to talk about and reference when those dreaded behavioural questions came up. For those of you who do not yet know what a behavioural question is, it is a question that asks you to “describe a time when [insert positive attribute or difficult hurdle here]”. The interviewers may ask you to describe a time when you had to work as a team to reach a deadline, go above and beyond to provide outstanding customer service or improve upon a process or system at work. These questions are relatively difficult to answer if you have not been involved with social clubs such as the Law Students’ Society or had some pretty decent work experience. The point I am trying to impress upon you is that if you find yourself without a grad job at the end of uni, the best thing you can do is find the most relevant and challenging temporary position you can while you continue to look for a grad job. Do not sit at home playing Minecraft and watching Dr. Phil (except after work or on weekends of course). Get out there and get some experience because this makes getting a grad job the second time around, so much easier!

Grad Offers

One of the firms that I interviewed for was Gadens Lawyers. Gadens do not offer clerkships and their grad program is designed exclusively for admitted lawyers who are approximately one or two years out of law school. This was perfect for me and I was instantly attracted to the idea of being rotated through various practice groups (like a grad) but given the responsibility and pay-grade of a first year lawyer.

So when the day came for offers to come out, I was pretty nervous. I knew that if I missed out this time it would take at least 6 months before firms starting hiring again and I was pretty keen to get in somewhere and start building a career. A friend of mine had also interviewed at Gadens and we had promised to let each other know if either of us got an offer so that we wouldn’t be waiting around all day wondering if offers had gone out or not. I received a text from my friend at 10:20am telling me that she had received an offer. I was over the moon for her but I knew that Gadens were only offering a small number of positions and it would take about 20 minutes at the most to call all the successful candidates. So I knew that if my phone didn’t ring in the next 20 minutes it was all over. Luckily, my phone did ring about

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6 minutes later and I received my offer (which I accepted almost before the women from HR had finished her sentence). It had been a long and difficult process but finally my hard-work and diligence had paid off. I had not given up or let the sense of rejection thwart my efforts. I had soldiered on and succeeded.

Conclusion

The moral of this story is that it is very difficult to showcase what you have to offer in a 3-week clerkship and more importantly, it is often difficult to feel comfortable enough to gel with the team and make an impression. This is why I think luck plays a more significant role than it probably should in determining who receives grad offers. If you find yourself without a grad offer at the end of your course, my advice is to find any legal work you can, stick with it long enough

to impress your colleagues and get them invested in your career (with full disclosure about your intentions of course). Then apply to somewhere that you would rather be, armed with experience, money and most importantly the backing of your supervisors who have seen the full range of your skills and witnessed those skills develop over a decent amount of time. It is a sad reality at the moment that there are far more students graduating from law school than there are clerkship offers and priority offered grad positions. There are still many market grad positions and other legal clerkship positions available to you so you need to go out and find them and get as much experience and development as you can in the meantime.

I wish you all the best!

Dylan O’Keefe.

WHERE TO GO AND WHY Josh Baldacchino

Let us be blissfully ignorant for just one brief moment and pretend that at 10am on 13 October we all receive every clerkship offer imaginable. It goes without saying that whilst many students are faced with the disappointment of not attaining a clerkship offer, a distinct minority are afforded the opportunity to select a firm or government department at which they would like to commence their legal career.

It must be noted that with the current system of priority offers, those who decline invitations to undertake a clerkship at particular firms unfortunately preclude themselves from graduate roles when organisations distribute offers. Subsequently, picking the right firm for you at the clerkship stage is vital.

Returning to our hypothetical ignorance, and the assumption that after the countless interviews and cocktail evenings we are offered more than three clerkship roles, we are forced to ask ourselves the daunting question…how on earth does one pick the right firm? The answer to that question is most cliché. It is different for everyone.

There are however some standard-form pointers that must be elucidated as you begin to formulate ideas regarding future employment locations.

paramount to forge connections with those individuals who, at the end of the day, hand out offers.

The Deakin Law Students’ Society organises a series of networking events. Attend as many as you can and mingle with Human Resource consultants, Graduates, Senior Associates and Partners. At the end of the day you’ll need to ask yourself whether or not you genuinely got along with these individuals and if you believe they are indeed a true representation of the organisation they work for.

What does the clerkship program entail?

Some of the larger firms will operate a clerkship program that will include cooking classes, barefoot bowling, networking nights and countless information sessions. Other firms tend to be more hands on in their approach and send students straight to work.

Depending on the size and structure of the firm, along with your skill-set, some firms prefer to ensure students work directly with partners and senior associates whilst others buddy-up a junior lawyer with clerks. Each firm runs a slightly different program to the next, ask as many questions as you can at networking events to determine which program better suits your work ethos and personality.

Do you like the people who work at the firm?

The current, competitive nature of the clerkship process has created an environment in which it is

Look beyond the clerkship role

Speak to graduates and junior lawyers at firms you

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would like to clerk at and note their experiences post-clerkship. Graduates can be rather blunt in their appraisal of their workplace and can often be a fantastic source of information when attempting to determine whether the firm suits your needs and wants.

How have they progressed since the clerkship; what

support have they been offered and what type of work are they now completing?

Apply broadly, apply with purpose and reap the rewards. Good luck!

Josh was a seasonal clerk in 2014/2015

5 REASONS TO BE A SEASONAL CLERK Seth Ryan

Seasonal clerkships are seen by many a law student as the ‘golden ticket’ into the legal profession or at least graduate employment. If you are anything like I was, this is the sole factor which will drive you as you enter the seasonal clerkship process.

However, a seasonal clerkship is so much more than simply a stepping stone to greater things. Approached with a positive mindset a seasonal clerkship can be one of the most enjoyable and defining experiences of your early career.

So as you enter the maze of the clerkship application process remember there is a light at the end of this tunnel, and that the light is certainly worth the journey to get there. Below, you will find the 5 greatest reasons why every law student should undertake a seasonal clerkship.

1 – YOU’LL LEARN SELF-DISCIPLINE

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

— Theodore Roosevelt If you’re a typical uni student you’ve probably spent the last few years developing very ‘unconventional’ study habits.

Mid-week nights out, late night munchies, mid-day sleep ins and online lectures are probably just some of the staples of your average uni week.

Unsurprisingly, a seasonal clerkship is quite the opposite. I’m here to tell you though, this will probably be the best thing you’ll do for yourself and your body clock this year!

Being a seasonal clerk is demanding. Working hours of 8.30am – 5.30pm is pretty much the norm.

For those getting their first taste of full-time work, the mental and physical drain of this will hit you like a ‘freight train’ in the first week.

For me, this was certainly the case. After a few weeks of full-time work I certainly felt as if I had aged

about 60 years. From being a spring chicken, I had become a person who craved bedtime more than anything else. 9 o’clock bed times became a regular habit.

Additionally, when at work, I was expected to simply do that, ‘work’. Whilst this might sound obvious, there is a discernible difference between working at uni/home and working in a law firm. Not being able to check in on Facebook/Instagram, access those live cricket scores or being distracted by friends certainly is a strange, but productive occurrence.

Being forced to adapt the way you work though during your seasonal clerkship may just be most the most beneficial thing you get from this experience.

Dedication, perseverance and hard work are three key attributes you will need to make it as a successful lawyer, and all these skills are formed off the back of strong ‘work-life’ routines and habits. Having a routine will not only be beneficial during your clerkship, but will allow you to work much more effectively in your final year at uni as well.

No lawyer ever became a master litigator/arbitrator over night. If you want to make your dreams in the legal profession come to fruition, its going to take a lot of self-discipline, and there is not a better time to start learning these skills than during your clerkship.

2 – YOU’LL GAIN NEW FOUND KNOWLEDGE

“Knowledge is power.”

— Sir Francis Bacon As lawyers, it is likely that we will often find ourselves working on a range of highly diverse and challenging matters. Such times will require us to draw on the practical knowledge we have acquired over the course of our degrees to find flexible solutions for the clients we work for. No matter what area of law you ultimately find yourself working in, the legal training you receive on a seasonal clerkship will put you in

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good stead to solve those problems.

Most firms who offer a seasonal clerkship invest a great deal of time and money into training their seasonal clerks. After all for some clerks, this may be their future employer. Regardless of the outcome of your clerkship, I urge you to take advantage of these personal and professional development opportunities!

Most firms will provide budding seasonal clerks with extensive training in areas of legal research, legal drafting and the use of ‘plain English’ when writing memos. Further, a lot of firms are now running informal clerk sessions, which focus on career development within the legal industry. These sessions deal with a range of topics such as ‘building your personal brand’, ‘learning the importance of feedback’ and ‘taking proper instructions as a junior lawyer’. These sessions are invaluable for those looking to build a career in the legal profession and are self-development opportunities which are often not taught at university.

3 – YOU’LL MEET AMAZING PEOPLE

So far I have probably sounded pretty serious in describing why you should undertake a seasonal clerkship, but putting aside my first two reasons, doing a clerkship will be one of the most enjoyable things you do at university! During your clerkship you will meet the most diverse group of people, make life long friends and witness some of the brightest legal minds in action.

When you walk in the door on the first day of your clerkship it is likely that you will be put into a room with 10 or more strangers who will be your colleagues for the next few weeks. Give it a couple of hours though and there will a strong sense of camaraderie and friendship with your fellow clerks. It is likely that your seasonal clerk group will be highly diverse in nature. With firms recruiting students from many different law schools, of all different ages and with many different experiences, every person in your clerkship group will likely have their own unique story to share. It is learning these stories, which will be one of the most enjoyable things about your clerkship journey.

Aside from your fellow clerks though, the lawyers you will meet within the firm itself will only add to this enriching experience. Graduate lawyers are more than happy to help you with that research task you are struggling with or share with you the experiences they have had as a junior lawyer. Senior lawyers will often go out of their way to share with you invaluable pieces of knowledge or small pieces of advice they have acquired in their careers, which have enabled them to become a master of their craft.

Most firms do a fantastic job making their seasonal

clerks feel welcome as they enter a firm culture for the first time, which will only add to your experience.

4 – YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT YOURSELF

“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself.

That’s the hardest thing to find.”

— E.L. Konigsburg Over the coming weeks and months it won’t be uncommon to question yourself and constantly self-analyse. On the long nights where you spend hours preparing for interview scenarios and researching the state of the legal industry, you may begin to feel a little and crazy and wonder just why you’re going through the clerkship process.

Questions and thoughts such ‘why am I doing this?’, ‘do I even want to be a commercial lawyer?’, ‘what is the meaning of this?’, ‘I always wanted to be a human rights lawyer...’ will enter your mind.

I implore you in those moments to push through, as undertaking a seasonal clerkship will soon enough answer all those questions for you.

As law students we’re often told that there is only one ‘right’ way to end up as a lawyer. ‘Finish your law degree, do a clerkship, get grad job and then become a commercial lawyer’ is the general gist of what we’re expected to do. For many lawyers though this is not the case. Many who take a non-commercial law path experience equally exciting and challenging careers. A seasonal clerkship though will allow you to determine whether ‘commercial law’ is your calling, and if it isn’t, then what is.

Generally during your seasonal clerkship you will have the opportunity to rotate through one or two different practice teams. These teams can vary tremendously from areas such as ‘Family Law’ and ‘Workplace and Employment’ to traditional areas such as ‘Commercial Litigation’ and ‘Mergers and Acquisitions’. During these rotations you will learn a lot about what areas of law attract you and where you may want to go with your legal career.

Importantly though, seeing the law in practice and not just in a textbook may change your whole perception on being a lawyer. For some this may affirm what they already knew regarding their passion for the law. For those uncertain of their desire to work in commercial law when they began the clerkship process, may find a new love for practice they did not think they had. Then again, there may be clerks who walk away from the seasonal clerkship knowing that whilst they enjoyed the firms they were at, life as a lawyer may not be for them and something else may be.

If there is one thing I learned for sure during

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the clerkship process, it is that life as a lawyer demands a passionate attitude towards everything you do. Arguably, this is the same for everything we do in life! Use your clerkship to find your true North on your inner compass; because once you do, the sky truly is the limit!

5 – YOU’LL EXPAND YOUR COMFORT ZONE

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

— Brian Tracy All of the greatest experiences I have had at university have come through pursuing new things and by making an effort to push my boundaries. Being a seasonal clerk is no exception to this rule. Why being a seasonal clerk is such a defining experience, is because like it or not, you are going to be out of your comfort zone.

Likely you will feel a thousand miles from it and that’s what makes it such powerful experience.

Professionally you will develop tremendously over this short period of time because of the nature of what’s going on around you. As a wannabe junior lawyer, you will be treated like one. Often you will be asked to undertake tasks that you have absolutely no experience in and likely have not even heard of in the course of your studies at university. These moments, whilst a cause of anxiety at the time, are opportunities for you to further develop the breadth of your legal skills and develop resilience in the face of adversity.

On a personal level, experiences such as getting to know countless new faces, playing firm sport and attending the end of year Christmas party, whilst not only extremely fun, will allow you to further develop your confidence and interpersonal skills. It is these experiences, which may seem daunting at the time, which will truly add value to your clerkship journey.

Upon self-reflection I am so glad I undertook a seasonal clerkship. My time working within commercial law definitely pushed me past my limits in the best possible way. Having started the process not knowing where I was heading and if life as a lawyer was for me, I now have a clear vision of what I am passionate about.

If you’re fortunate enough to undertake a seasonal clerkship, grab it with both hands. The experience may be just the first chapter in your own story, but with any luck it is the starting point for bigger things yet to come. eth was the President of the DLSS in 2014 and S a Seasonal Clerk in 2014/2015.

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Firm Insights

Matrix…44 Firm Insights…49 — 43 —

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Firm Name

Web

Firm Contact

Email

Phone

Application Method

Allens

allens.com.au

Danielle Butera Graduate Recruitment Consultant

danielle.butera@ allens.com.aut

03 9613 8736

Firm Website

Arnold Block Leibler

abl.com.au

Lauri Burke Human Resources Manager

lburke@abl.com.au

03 9229 9999

Firm Website / cvMail

Ashurst

ashurst.com/ graduates

Justine Lewis HR Consultant – Graduate Programs

justine.lewis@ashurst.com

03 9679 3000

cvMail

Baker & McKenzie

bakermckenzie.com

Natalie Mascarenhas Talent Management Consultant

natalie.mascarenhas@ bakermckenzie.com

03 9617 4349

cvMail

BJT Legal

bjtlegal.com.au

Stephen Drummond Chief Executive Officer

careers@bjtlegal.com.au

03 5333 8888

Email

Clayton Utz

claytonutz.com

Katie Ryan People & Development Consultant

katieryan@claytonutz.com

03 9286 6636

claytonutz. com/careers

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

corrs.com.au

Lauren Tropeano Human Resources Adviser

lauren.tropeano@corrs.com.au

03 9672 3000

corrs.com.au/ graduates

Coulter Roache

coulterroache. com.au

Jeanne Mackenzie Human Resources Manager

jmackenzie@ coulterroache.com.au

03 5273 5278

Email to HR

Davies Collison Cave

davies.com.au

Gabrielle Eskdale HR Manager

recruitment@davies.com.au

03 9254 2777

Frim Website

DLA Piper

dlapipergraduates. com.au

Samantha Clark HR Advisor

samantha.clark@dlapiper.com

03 9274 5000

Firm Website / cvMail

GI Sanicki

gisanicki.com.au

Kate Rae Legal Secretary

kate@gisanicki.com.au

03 9510 9888

Email

Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers

me.gtlaw.com.au

Meaghan Lust Manager, People Team

mlust@gtlaw.com.au

03 8656 3300

cvMail

Hall & Wilcox

hallandwilcox. com.au

Trudi Galbraith HR Advisor

trudi.galbraith@ hallandwilcox.com.au

03 9603 3555

cvMail

Herbert Smith Freehills

herbertsmithfreehills.com.au

Hong Le Graduate Recruitment Consultant

graduates.melbourne@hsf.com

03 9288 1937

cvMail

Hunt & Hunt

hunthunt.com.au

Marnie Harper HR Manager

mharper@hunthunt.com.au

03 8602 9200

Email

HWL Ebsworth

hwlebsworth.com.au

Ella Meager HR Advisor

emeager@hwle.com.au

03 8644 3419

Firm Website

Johnson Winter & Slattery

jws.com.au/en

Wilma Lewis Professional Development Advisor

wilma.lewis@jws.com.au

02 8247 9630

cvMail

K&L Gates

klgates.com

Carla Di Vincenzo Human Resources Specialist

carla.divincenzo@klgates.com

03 9205 2000

cvMail

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Clerks Required

Positions Per Intake

Apps Open

Apps Close

Interview Period

Offers Made

Clerkship Periods

Graduate Positions

International Students

LIV Signatory

Final Year Students

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15 * 24 * 22 *

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Sep

13 Oct

Nov – Dec 2015 Jan – Feb 2016 Jul 2016 TBC

25–30

Yes

Yes

Yes

30–36

12 Per Intake

13 Jul

16 Aug

Early Sep

13 Oct

23 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 18 Jan – 12 Feb 2016 27 Jun – 22 Jul 2016

10–12

Yes

Yes

Yes

45–55

20–25 Approx

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Sep

13 Oct

TBC

14–16

No

Yes

Yes

12–14

12–14

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

Nov - Dec 2015

5–7

Yes

Yes

Yes

2

1

TBC

31 Aug

TBC

TBC

16Nov – 18 Dec 2015 11 Jan – 12 Feb 2016

1

Yes

Yes

Yes

30

15

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

26 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 23 Jun – 15 Jul 2016

TBC

No

Yes

Yes

40

10–13

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

23 Nov – 16 Dec 2015 Jan – Feb 2016 Jul 2016

10–15

No

Yes

Yes

20

TBC

3 Aug

28 Aug

Sep

12 Oct

TBC

2

Yes

No

Yes

6

1–2

13 Aug

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

Nov – Dec 15 TBC Jan – Feb 16 TBC Jun – Jul 16 TBC

1–2

No

No

Yes

30

10

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

7 Oct

Nov – Dec 2015 Jan – Feb 2016 Jun – Jul 2016

10

No

Yes

Yes

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

Yes

Yes

Yes

21–27

7–9

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

23 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 18 Jan – 12 Feb 2016 27 Jun – 22 Jul 2016

7–10

No

Yes

Yes

16–20

8–10

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

Winter TBC Summer TBC

6–8

Yes

Yes

Yes

60–70

20

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Oct

13 Oct

TBC

TBC

No

Yes

No

8

4

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

23 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 27 Jun – 22 Jul 2016

3

No

Yes

Yes

10 *

10*

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Sep

13 Oct

4 Jul – 22 Jul 2016

TBC

No

Yes

Yes

21*

TBC

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

23 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 Jan – Feb 2016 Jul 2016

TBC

No

No

Yes

15–20

10

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Sep

13 Oct

1–26 Feb 2016 27 Jun – 22 Jul 2016

TBC

No

No

Yes

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* 2014/2015 figures

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Firm Name

Web

Firm Contact

Email

Phone

Application Method

King & Wood Mallesons

kwm.com

Sianead Kenneally Graduate Resourcing Consultant

sianead.kenneally@ au.kwm.com

03 9643 5547

kwm.com/ careers

Kliger Partners

kligers.com.au

Davina Onas Human Resources Manager

careers@kligers.com.au

03 8600 8888

Firm Website

Lander & Rogers

landers.com.au

Laura Grant Graduate Resourcing Consultant

lgrant@landers.com.au

03 9269 9333

cvMail

Maddens

maddenslawyers. com.au

Mark Koch General Manager

mlk@maddenslawyers.com.au

03 5560 2000

CV in Mail / Email

Maddocks

maddocks.com.au

Kate Chisholm People & Culture

kate.chisholm@ maddocks.com.au

03 9258 3625

maddocks.com. au/careers

Maurice Blackburn

mauriceblackburn. com.au

Lauren Cations Human Resources Consultant

recruitment@ mauriceblackburn.com.au

03 9605 2649

Firm Website

Minter Ellison

minterellison.com

Elizabeth Atchison Clerk & Graduate Resourcing

elizabeth.atchison@ minterellison.com

03 8608 2000

Firm Website

Mills Oakley Lawyers

millsoakley.com.au

Stephanie Fancoli Human Resources Advisor

sfancoli@millsoakley.com.au

03 9670 9111

Firm Website / cvMail

Moores

moores.com.au

Joelle Blackburn Manager, People & Culture

careers@moores.com.au

03 9898 0000

Firm Website

Norton Rose Fulbright

nortonrosefulbright. com

Lucy Eva Human Resources Administrator

lucy.eva@ nortonrosefulbright.com

03 8686 6416

cvMail

Russell Kennedy

rk.com.au

Heidi Ulrich Human Resources Advisor

hulrich@rk.com.au

03 9609 1517

cvMail

Ryan Carlisle Thomas

rct-law.com.au

Allison Fox HR Administrator

afox@rct-law.com.au

03 9238 7861

Email

Thomson Geer

tglaw.com.au

Clare Lynch People and Development Adviser

clynch@tglaw.com.au

03 8080 3500

Firm Website / cvMail

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Clerks Required

Positions Per Intake

Open Date

Close Date

Interview Period

Offers Made

Clerkship Periods

Graduate Positions

International Students

LIV Signatory

Final Year Students

60–70

20–25

13 Jul

16 Aug

7–25 Sep

13 Oct

26 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 21 Jan – 12 Feb 2016 Jul 2016

TBC

Yes

Yes

Yes

6

3

13 Jul

16 Aug

TBC

13 Oct

Jun – Jul Nov – Dec

2

Yes

Yes

Yes

28–34

10–12 8–10 10–12

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

Nov – Dec 2015 Jan – Feb 2016 Jun – Jul 2016

10 *

No

Yes

Yes

3 *

3 *

TBC

TBC

Oct / Nov

TBC

Nov – Dec 2015

TBC

No

Yes

Yes

16

8

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

13 Oct

23 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 27 Jun – 22 Jul 2016

4–6

No

Yes

Yes

25 *

13 * 12 *

13 Jul

16 Aug

14 Sep – 2 Oct

13 Oct

26 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 23 Jun – 15 Jul 2016

10–15

No

Yes

Yes

50

25

13 Jul

16 Aug

Sep

7 Oct

23 Nov – 11 Dec 2015 TBC

TBC

No

Yes

Yes

14

17

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Sep

13 Oct

16 Nov – 11 Dec 2015 20 Jun – 15 Jul 2016

Up to 7

No

Yes

No

8

4

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Sep

13 Oct

Late Jun – Jul Late Nov – Dec

2

No

No

No

10

10

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Sep

13 Oct

30 Nov 2015 – 12 Feb 2016

10

Yes

No

No

25 *

8 * 9 * 8 *

13 Jul

16 Aug

Mid – Late Sep

13 Oct

16 Nov – 11 Dec 2015 18 Jan – 12 Feb 2016 27 Jun – 15 Jul 2016

4–6

No

Yes

Yes

8–10

3–4

13 Jul

16 Aug

Aug – Sep

13 Oct

TBC

TBC

No

Yes

Yes

15 *

15 *

13 Jul

16 Aug

Mid Sep

13 Oct

17 Nov – 12 Dec 2015 Jan – Feb 2016 TBC

6 *

No

Yes

No

* 2014/2015 figures

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Firm Insights Firm Name

Pg

Allens

50

Arnold Bloch Leibler

56

Ashurst

60

Baker & McKenzie

64

Clayton Utz

72

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

75

Coulter Roache

84

DLA Piper

86

Hall & Wilcox

90

Herbert Smith Freehills

94

K&L Gates

100

King & Wood Mallesons

106

Lander & Rogers

110

Maddocks

114

Minter Ellison

118

Russell Kennedy

126

Thomson Geer

132

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Level 37, 101 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 3 9613 8736 W: www.allens.com.au HR Contact Danielle Butera, Graduate Recruitment Consultant E: danielle.butera@allens.com.au Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship Through firm website Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship

Allens Possibility in Everything

Through firm website

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Intake 1: Intake 2: Intake 3:

Required: 61* 15* 24* 22*

* 2014/2015 figures

Key Dates Intake 1: November – December 2015 TBC Intake 2: January – February 2016 TBC Intake 3: July 2016 TBC Applications Open: 9.00am Monday 13 July 2015 Applications Close: 11.59pm Sunday 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: August – September 2015 Offers Released: 10.00am 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 25–30 International students considered: Yes LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes, however we encourage them to explore graduate market opportunities that may become available as opposed to completing a clerkship.

ABOUT Us

Allens is a leading international law firm, with partners, lawyers and corporate services employees across Asia and Australia.

Through an integrated alliance with Linklaters, we provide clients with access to market-leading lawyers through a global network of 39 offices across 28 countries, including to emerging markets in Africa, Asia and South America.

We work with many of the world’s leading organisations – including 55 of the world’s top 100 companies and more than 75 of Australia’s top 100 companies.

A Unique Alliance

Our strategic alliance with Linklaters makes us the only firm in Australia and Asia to have a formal relationship with a UK Magic Circle firm.

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mentary practices means a seamless service, with one point of contact, a unified team drawn from the best resources of each firm, and consistent quality advice and support.

For you, it means even more possibilities.

You’ll have the chance to work with a broader group of clients, work on multi-jurisdictional matters and take up opportunities for international assignments.

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

You might think every law firm is the same. Not quite.

There are a few important things that set us apart from our competitors.

It begins with our people

It’s our people who make us great. You’ll have the opportunity to work with market leaders on premium work for top clients. You’ll be able to develop outstanding legal and commercial skills, finding solutions for our clients in a fast-paced and rapidly changing legal and business environment.

To build and drive your career as a market leading lawyer, you’ll have access to great learning and development opportunities. You can explore all of these possibilities in a firm that values diversity and the broad contribution that its people make to the legal profession, and to the business and wider community.

We know you’ll have interests outside work and that you’ll want time to enjoy them. When things are busy, we work hard. When they’re not, we go home.

If you want to pursue other options throughout your career, we’ll support your choices and encourage you to remain part of the Allens network through our Alumni program.

Our Unique Way of Working

We adopt a flexible approach to the way we work together that builds strong and diverse teams, and is one of the reasons lawyers tell us a career at Allens is so rewarding. Unlike in other law firms, you will work with a range of partners and lawyers across the firm, supported by a dedicated Performance Coach.

You won’t learn just one way of doing things, but will build your skills and knowledge through exposure to many different ways.

Our Strategic Alliance

Our integrated alliance with Linklaters puts us ahead of the market – we are the only law firm in Australia to have aligned formally with a Magic Circle firm. This means we are able to share resources and offer our clients a seamless global service.

It also means more opportunities for our people.

When you join our firm, you are joining a global

network, with opportunities across Australia, Asia, Europe and the US. CLERKSHIP PROGRAM

We recruit most of our graduates through our clerkship programs – a great way for you to see how we operate and find out if a career at Allens is for you.

All our Australian offices offer clerkships that coincide with most university holidays. We recruit from universities across Australia but also welcome applications from international students who are eligible to work in Australia.

A clerkship will allow you to experience life as Allens lawyer . You will get involved in work as soon as you set foot in the firm, work alongside lawyers and partners, learn from their feedback and enjoy their support. You will get a feel for who we are and why we’re different.

You’ll come away with all the insights you need to make an informed decision about your future.

We offer a range of experiences across a number of different practice groups and sectors.

Here’s a quick run-down of what you can look forward to.

• an induction program that introduces you to our people and the work we do; • on-the-job training with support from a partner and junior lawyer who’ll act as your supervisor and buddy; • the opportunity to work with many of Australia’s and the world’s top 100 companies; • performing tasks similar to those of a junior lawyer; • an opportunity to hear firsthand from our partners and Corporate Services teams on topics ranging from Allens as a business to Allens in the community; • sports and social events, where you will really get to know the people of Allens; • the chance to get involved in our community work; and • the opportunity to build a network of peers.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

There isn’t an ‘Allens’ type’ – in fact, the more you enjoy working with a variety of people, the greater your success will be. Diverse perspectives help solve complex problems. On top of that, they mean that teams are stronger, client relationships are richer and life at the firm is just more interesting.

Our lawyers are not just technical experts – they are proactive, strategic, good influencers, resilient, focused on growth and opportunities, build genuine relationships with clients and are thought leaders

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in their industry. Here are a few of the attributes we know are key to success at Allens.

Initiative

A curious mind is vital, as is plenty of initiative. The more adaptable you’re prepared to be and the more energy you bring, the more you’ll get out of your career at Allens. You’ll be able to steer a path that turns possibilities into realities.

Excellence

Excellence is essential; it’s a guarantee we give our clients. Intellectually rigorous, driven and eager to learn, you’ll set the highest standards for yourself and strive to be the best you can be.

Commerciality

Successful lawyers understand that law is more than an academic pursuit. It’s about understanding the client – their objectives and the challenges they face – as well as the wider commercial environment in which we operate.

Our rotations will allow you build the kind of expertise, trust and relationships that enable you to grow and succeed from an early stage in your career.

Resilience

Positive people thrive in our environment. We look for people who can build sustainable careers with us; people who successfully juggle a busy life and varying commitments, while maintaining their wellbeing. Like us, you’ll believe that leading a full, active life outside the law can make you a more interesting person to work with.

career, challenging work, access to strategic minds, an extensive learning program and the opportunity to be the best you can be.

In return, we ask you to show initiative, work hard, demonstrate your commerciality and be resilient.

It’s about working together to make possibilities happen.

We have designed a graduate program that will not only enhance your technical expertise, but that will equip you with the business development and interpersonal skills required by all lawyers who are serious about building a practice.

You will complete two twelve-month rotations in two different practice groups before you specialise.

Our rotations will allow you build the kind of expertise, trust and relationships that enable you to grow and succeed from an early stage in your career.

You’ll also benefit from: • an intensive two-week induction program to kick-start your career; • a development supervisor, who’ll act as your mentor throughout your rotations, to ensure you gain optimum experience and client exposure; • weekly in-house legal education seminars that give you a solid grounding in the basic technical knowledge all lawyers must have, whatever their practice group; • ongoing skill development workshops run by internal and external providers; • a broad range of work that exposes you to different areas of law, different teams and different clients; • on-the-job training supported by a development supervisor and a buddy; • videos, podcasts and online training workshops; • development/career planning; and • an in-house Practical Legal Training program designed by the College of Law and tailored specifically to Allens. You’ll aim to be admitted to the College of Law at the end of your first year.

Well-Rounded

Our clients often tell us we have ‘great people’. And it’s true. We look for people who can bring a fresh perspective and energy to everything they do, with the ability to create strong relationships with each other and with clients. We aim to recruit people who are open minded, willing to learn, and committed to contributing to the firm in many different ways.

GRADUATE PROGRAM

Working at Allens is a two-way street.

We offer you the possibility of a rewarding

SECONDMENTS AND OVERSEAS OPPORTUNITIES

We offer secondments across Allens offices in Australia and throughout Asia, as well as international assignments to Linklaters offices around the world.

For example, four of our 2013 law graduates will spend their second rotation at Linklaters’ London office.

If you opt for a client secondment, you might find yourself working at one of the world’s top 100 companies, or a pro-bono secondment could see you working with one of our many community partners across the region.

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Life as an Allens Graduate Jules Moxon – Lawyer, 2014 Graduate

In a firm like Allens, no two graduate experiences will be the same. That said, there are common themes: you will have the opportunity to work with experienced, respected practitioners on some of the largest, most complex matters in any given field.

Allens has an extremely broad practice (covering all areas of commercial law) and offices throughout Australia and Asia (in Jakarta, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore and Ulaanbataar). Through the firm’s relationship with Linklaters, it also offers graduates international secondment opportunities.

I have been extremely fortunate in my first year at the firm, spending a great deal of time working on matters of varying sizes, as well as part of teams and under the direct supervision of a partner.

I have been extremely fortunate in my first year at the firm, spending a great deal of time working on matters of varying sizes, as well as part of teams and under the direct supervision of a partner. Much of my time was taken up by two particular matters, both very large commercial disputes involving teams drawn from multiple offices.

Graduates can expect to be rewarded with greater levels of responsibility, as the year develops and they become more confident in their abilities.

As well as the more substantial disputes, I have been involved in smaller transactional and litigious matters working for a senior associate, and in a number of matters, directly with a partner.

The firm also has a substantial, demonstrated commitment to pro bono work and community engagement. From the get go, graduates are involved in pro bono practice, assisting some of the most disadvantaged members of our community, whether they be homeless, suffering from a mental illness or an asylum seeker at risk of deportation. Opportunities are also available to work as part of the firm’s charity committees, or in support of our reconciliation action plan.

As well as the kind of work on offer, be it billable or pro bono, a firm’s culture and professional

development structures are just as important to a positive graduate experience. Commercial law firms, and top tier firms in particular, have a reputation for consistently long hours and a lack of work-life balance.

Whilst it’s true that you will be expected to work hard, the firm is committed to creating a fun and supportive environment where you’re always learning and developing. And, when you do need to work late, they soften the blow by feeding you and paying for a ride home.

At Allens, you’ll also have the benefit of working with lawyers who are at the top of their game, and who take a genuine interest in your development and welfare.

At the outset, I acknowledged that no two experiences are the same. The best way to learn more about what Allens (or indeed any other firm) is like, and maximise your chances of securing a position, is to engage with the profession. Attend networking events organised by your student law society, engage with friends starting out in their careers and university alumni, and have an open mind as to what sort of area you might like to practice in.

At Allens, you’ll also have the benefit of working with lawyers who are at the top of their game, and who take a genuine interest in your development and welfare.

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Find Variety and Adventure in Energy and Resources at Allens Emma Cundale – Lawyer

Working in the Energy and Resources group at Allens will take you from the red dirt of the Pilbara to the far corners of Africa and Asia, and give you the opportunity to challenge yourself and to develop your skills within an area which is complex, relevant and ever changing.

Allens is an international law firm, and this is reflected in the Energy and Resources sector in the clients we advise, the projects that we work on and the opportunities available to our lawyers, such as in-house secondments with our clients not only locally, but internationally, …

Australia has become a global leader in exports of natural resources and energy, and as a result this sector plays a significant role in the country’s economy.

As an Energy and Resources lawyer at Allens, you therefore know that you will be working on some of the most relevant and exciting projects in the economic landscape, with a firm whose experience in this sector goes back almost 100 years.

Allens’ Energy and Resources team covers a diverse range of practice areas, such as mining, oil and gas and power and utilities. Our teams advise the top clients in these areas on the whole spectrum of legal issues, from exploration through to production and marketing and varied related issues such as acquisitions, joint ventures, financing, tax, litigation and environmental approvals. This offers our junior lawyers in this sector vital experience, as they follow the life of the project from beginning to end, and have the opportunity to see firsthand the varying issues a project may face, and how these can be resolved.

Because our work on these projects covers the whole spectrum of legal issues that can arise, the Energy and Resources stream has a constant inter-

action with related fields such as native title, climate change, environment and planning, real estate and banking. This close interaction with so many fields provides a great opportunity for junior lawyers to develop their skills in a broad range of areas and to build networks across practice groups and offices.

I started at Allens as a vacation clerk, worked as a research assistant and then joined as a graduate, and have enjoyed the varying and challenging work that I have encountered whilst working with the Energy and Resources group, from advising on some of the biggest mining projects in Australia, to assisting with the negotiation and finalisation of cross-jurisdictional marketing arrangements. I have also had the opportunity to work with, and learn from, people in Allens’ offices around Australia and Asia.

Allens is an international law firm, and this is reflected in the Energy and Resources sector in the clients we advise, the projects that we work on and the opportunities available to our lawyers, such as inhouse secondments with our clients not only locally, but internationally, in countries such as Indonesia or Russia. Due to the significant part that this sector plays in not only Australia’s economy, but many countries around the world, you can be sure that the skills and knowledge that you will gain in this area are highly relevant and easily transferable.

… you can be sure that the skills and knowledge that you will gain in this area are highly relevant and easily transferable.

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Level 21, 333 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9229 9999 W: www.abl.com.au HR Contact Lauri Burke, Human Resources Manager E: lburke@abl.com.au Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship Through the careers page on our website www.abl.com.au or on cvmail

Arnold Bloch Leibler Lawyers and Advisers

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship Through the careers page on our website www.abl.com.au or on cvmail

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 30–36 Intake 1: 10–12 Intake 2: 10–12 Intake 3: 10–12 Key Dates Intake 1: 23 November – 18 December 2015 Intake 2: 18 January – 12 February 2016 Intake 3: 27 June – 22 July 2016 Applications Open: 9.00am Monday 13 July 2015 Applications Close: 11.59pm Sunday 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: Early September 2015 Offers Released: 10.00am Tuesday 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 10–12 International students considered: No LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About us

Arnold Bloch Leibler is a premier Australian commercial law firm with an international reputation for innovative, commercially focused advice. Our clients include blue-chip corporations, high-net-worth individuals, family businesses, entrepreneurs and the business stars of tomorrow, other professional service firms, and charitable and not-for-profit organisations.

From our offices in Melbourne and Sydney, we are regularly involved in some of the most high-profile and landmark transactions in the country, we assist our clients with their most important and difficult legal matters.

We do more than help our commercial clients, giving back to the community has always been one of our core values. For us, it is a privilege and the right thing to do.

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What sets us apart from other firms is that we think like business people, not just like lawyers. We are driven by excellence and are passionate about what we do. There are plenty of law firms out there, but only a few offer something truly unique. We are one of the few.

the application and commitment to achieve results.

What type of work will a Seasonal Clerk will undertake?

The firm offers a select, client-focused package of services encompassing commercial, litigation, property and development, finance, insolvency, taxation, employment, competition, intellectual property and technology. Our clients come to us because they know we are not going to tell them why they can’t do something, rather we show them how they can.

Where others see problems, we see possibilities and solutions.

At Arnold Bloch Leibler, our clerkship programme has been tailored to reflect our graduate traineeship programme, providing you the opportunity to experience first-hand life as a lawyer and our unique culture.

You can expect real work and real responsibility at ABL, and have the opportunity to make a real contribution to the firm – right from day one. Working closely with partners and lawyers, you’ll attend relevant meetings and telephone calls with clients and attend court hearings. You’ll be involved in great international and local matters and cases – anything from multi-billion dollar transactions and corporate collapses, to defending class actions.

What is the firm’s approach to pro bono work?

What we look for?

We do more than help our commercial clients, giving back to the community has always been one of our core values. For us, it is a privilege and the right thing to do. Through our public interest law practice, our lawyers engage with many organisations that are active in the cultural, health, religious, Indigenous and environmental sectors to defend or assert rights, to develop the law or improve the administration of justice.

We are committed to reconciliation and acknowledge the disadvantages faced by Indigenous Australians.

Our firm is actively involved with those who are dedicated to remedying the imbalances that exist in our society. Pro-bono work at ABL is valued as highly as fee-paying work, with many of the firm’s lawyers devoting time to these matters. On average in 2013, ABL lawyers spent 66 hours each working on pro-bono matters. Per information from the National Pro-Bono Resource Centre, ABL carried out the most number of public interest law work hours averaged out across a firm of any such categorised law firm in Australia.

We have found that the people who are successful in law and at Arnold Bloch Leibler are those who, in addition to holding a sound academic record, also present themselves in a confident manner and demonstrate an ability to relate well to others. We look for people who know how to use initiative and accept shared responsibility for their career development.

The other personal qualities we consider are willingness to learn, a sense of humour and preparedness to assume responsibility.

Practice areas

Our clients come to us because they know we are not going to tell them why they can’t do something, rather we show them how they can.

Where others see problems, we see possibilities and solutions.

Seasonal Clerkship program

We offer around 35 clerkship positions each year, with three intakes of 10–12 clerks, so you won’t get lost in the crowd. Each clerkship runs for four weeks and coincides with university holidays - November/ December, January/ February and June/July.

Will the firm accept non-penultimate applicants?

To ensure you are at a level of your education that can be developed further with us, and per the LIV guidelines, we only consider applicants in their penultimate year of study.

What stands out in a clerkship application?

When recruiting clerks we look for exceptional people who are seeking and can provide, something extraordinary. We value academic excellence as well as life experience, lateral thinking as highly as logic, and imagination in addition to intelligence. Good grades indicate not just ability, but also that you have

What is the application and interview process I.E. how many rounds of interviews, style of interview?

Selected candidates will be asked to attend an interview with two partners and a member of the human resources team. Interviews are approximately half

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an hour in duration, enabling us to assess your suitability for a clerkship within the firm. Equally, it is an opportunity for you to learn about the firm and assess whether a clerkship with Arnold Bloch Leibler is right for you.

Graduate Traineeship program

Arnold Bloch Leibler conducts a 12 month Supervised Workplace Training (SWT) programme for all of its law graduates, held predominantly in the workplace, not at a PLT provider. SWT provides practical learning, provided by partners and senior members of staff, based on guidelines set out by the Legal Education Council.

Graduate trainees are not rotated formally between practice areas. Instead, graduate trainees are assigned to work with a partner, completing tasks specific to real matters. Generally, this approach benefits graduate trainees as they are able to see a matter through from the beginning to the end. At Arnold Bloch Leibler, there is a wide degree of flexibility within, and a broad cross-pollination between, practice areas.

It is important to make the right career choices.

Arnold Bloch Leibler is a commercial legal firm that gives graduate trainees the flexibility to either become outstanding generalists, or specialists in their chosen practice area. At Arnold Bloch Leibler, it is the hope that every graduate trainee will one day become a partner.

Arnold Bloch Leibler is a commercial legal firm that gives graduate trainees the flexibility to either become outstanding generalists, or specialists in their chosen practice area. At Arnold Bloch Leibler, it is the hope that every graduate trainee will one day become a partner.

How many graduates does the firm typically take?

Arnold Bloch Leibler participates in the ‘priority offer’ system and takes between 10 to 14 graduate trainees per year from those who have completed a seasonal clerkship with us.

Does the firm offer deferment of a graduate offer?

Yes. How many rotations does a graduate undertake and for what length?

There is no formal rotation process at Arnold Bloch Leibler. This is because as a law graduate at Arnold Bloch Leibler you will experience a broad range of work and by not rotating, you will receive a better quality of work, supervision and client contact.

However, law graduates are given the opportunity to move to another area of practice after (or before) nine months if they desire, and if we have a place available.

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Planning & Environment Law Andrea Towson – Senior Associate

As an articled clerk, my first experience with planning and environment (P&E) law involved 200,000 chickens, a self-represented litigant challenging a well-respected barrister during the hearing to drink a glass of water that the litigant had placed some chicken droppings in the bottom of (to establish that tank water within a certain vicinity of a chicken farm was in fact safe for human consumption) and attending a site inspection where the Judge’s Associate had to prepare His Honour a cup of tea using a camp stove and billy, given that the subject land was over three hours away from the nearest coffee shop.

After such a colourful introduction, P&E law has had me hooked from the very beginning.

ABL’s property & development practice.

Arnold Bloch Leibler’s property & development practice is designed as a ‘one-stop-shop’, covering all aspects of property acquisition, financing, development, construction, sales and leasing.

As a P&E lawyer within the property development group, my role is to provide advice to clients in relation to land use and development, including a wide range of environmental issues.

My clients are typically property developers who are seeking planning permission to develop high-rise mixed use developments in the inner-city, or large-scale residential subdivisions on land previously zoned for industrial or rural purposes, which can now be redeveloped for residential and retail purposes.

Some examples of P&E matters I regularly work on are: • environment and planning and risk assessment and due diligence in relation to property acquisitions across Australia; • planning permit applications and variations; • planning scheme amendments; • planning appeals and litigation, including mediation; • negotiating and drafting Section 173 Agreements (legal agreements which impose certain restrictions on the use or development of land, which are recorded on title); • contaminated land issues; • providing advice in respect of native vegetation offsets; and • preparing design guidelines and memorandums of common provisions in

respect of large-scale, staged residential communities.

Why P&E law?

As a P&E lawyer, your working life will be filled with variety.

For example, one day you may be acting for a developer running an appeal in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, and the very next day you may find yourself drafting high-level commercial advice relating to the provision of suitable native vegetation offsets in order to comply with the requirements of Victoria’s Native Vegetation Framework. It is this variety that makes P&E law such an interesting, exciting, and at times, challenging area of practice.

The practice of P&E law will see you working collaboratively with a wide range of consultants, including town planners, architects and urban designers, as well as experienced planning Counsel. Provided that you are open and receptive to the opportunity, these experienced consultants and Counsel can quickly bring you up to speed on emerging issues in the area, as well as recent case examples in which they have been actively involved.

What skills does a P&E lawyer require?

A key benefit of working as a P&E lawyer in Arnold Bloch Leibler’s property & development group – as opposed to a P&E lawyer in a specialist P&E team – is that you develop an understanding of all aspects of a property transaction – from acquisition and obtaining a planning permit to construction of the development. This strong generalist foundation greatly strengthens your P&E practice, as you have a working knowledge of the various issues your clients will need to deal with both pre and post development.

As a member of Arnold Bloch Leibler’s property and development group, you will work with a team of dedicated property, planning and construction lawyers who are passionate about what they do and are willing to encourage and support those who follow in their footsteps.

Finally, a genuine interest in property development, architecture and the environment (as well as an ability to read plans) will certainly enliven your practice.

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Level 26, 181 William Street Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9679 3000 W: www.ashurst.com/graduates HR Contact Justine Lewis, HR Consultant – Graduate Programs E: Justine.lewis@ashurst.com Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship cvMail Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship

Ashurst Make Your Presence Felt

cvMail

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 45–55 Intake 1: 20–25 Intake 2: TBC Intake 3: 20–25 Key Dates Intake 1: TBC Intake 2: TBC Intake 3: TBC Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: August – September 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 14–16 International students considered: No LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About us

Ashurst is a leading global law firm. We advise Australian and international corporations, financial institutions and government clients. We have 28 offices in 16 countries including associated offices in Jakarta and Jeddah, and a best-friends referral relationship with an Indian law firm. With over 420 partners and 1,700 lawyers, we offer the international insight of a global network combined with local market knowledge and expertise.

Our clients can access deep local knowledge and on-the ground support wherever they do business from people they know and trust. We build teams that are specific to our clients’ needs, combining specialist legal skills, industry experience and regional know-how. We have a track record of successfully managing large and complex multijurisdictional transactions and projects.

Our focus is on getting to the heart of our clients’ legal needs and delivering practical, commercial solutions.

Practice areas

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• Banking & Finance • Commercial Property • Competition • Construction & Infrastructure • Corporate • Dispute Resolution • Employment • Energy & Resources • Environment • Government • Hotels, Leisure & Gaming • Intellectual Property • Mergers & Acquisitions • Native Title • Project Finance • Restructuring & Insolvency • Tax • Technology, Media & Telecommunications

• Drafting contract tip sheets • Reviewing agreements and amending clauses in contracts • Preparing draft articles for clients and industry publications • Attending a client and/or pro bono secondment What other opportunities and experiences does the firm offer its clerks e.g. travel opportunities or extracurricular activities?

Pro Bono work, Client Secondments (Sydney), Sporting teams, after work dinner and drinks, Christmas parties, inter-firm trivia night.

What does the firm look for in a seasonal clerk?

Seasonal Clerkship program How many clerks does the firm typically take?

Approximately 50 How many intakes of clerks are there and when do they typically take place?

At this stage 2 – pre-Christmas (Nov–Dec) and Winter (Jun–Jul). We may reintroduce a post-Christmas clerkship (Feb) but this is not confirmed yet.

What stands out in a clerkship application?

A combination of academic excellence, relevant work experience and a proactive approach to taking on extra-curricular activity. A tailored cover letter addressing the correct person helps. Research on the firm and a strong desire to work in commercial law can easily be deciphered from a well written letter.

Analytical ability, motivation, determination and drive, team and interpersonal skills, commercial instinct,communication skills, and flexibility.

We look for the abilities and strengths which experience tells us are critical to your success as a graduate and beyond. In particular we seek graduates and clerks who can demonstrate the following attributes: • Ability to extract key points from complex information.

• Ability and confidence to think for yourself.

• Driven and resilient.

• An interest in commercial and financial matters.

• Team-oriented with strong interpersonal skills.

• Ability to communicate clearly, especially in writing.

• Adaptability.

Will the firm accept non-penultimate applicants?

Only if the applicant is in their final year and available to commence as a graduate in 2017.

What is the application and interview process e.g. how many rounds of interviews, style of interview?

What type of work can a clerk expect to undertake?

A varied experience depending on your practice area and current matters.

The seasonal clerkship program is designed to give you a snapshot experience of life as a graduate.

Some tasks which our 2014 seasonal clerks assisted with include: • Preparing documents for court and observing hearings • Attending settlements, conciliations, contract negotiations, briefings with counsel, meetings with expert witnesses and teleconferences with clients • Preparing file notes, case summaries and the first draft of an advice or agreement • Assisting with pro bono matters and research projects

Apply online via cvMail. Candidates will be assigned a buddy (graduate or first year lawyer) who will provide details and advice in the lead up to the interview.

There will be 2 interviews and the first will involve a Partner or Senior Associate and HR, and the second will be more informal with a Senior Associate over coffee. Our goal is to ensure we get the best out of our candidates by keeping the atmosphere relaxed and the pace of the interview conversational.

Successful applicants will be invited to an information evening prior to commencement of the interview process. the graduate program

We run a 12 month graduate program which comprises three rotations in different practice areas.

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Graduates will receive an in individually tailored rotation plan which should provide exposure to litigious, transactional and advisory work.

Practical Legal Training (PLT) is provided inhouse and the firm covers all costs. The program is run by the College of Law but has been specifically tailored to the Ashurst house style and approach.

You will begin the PLT program during the graduate induction program and complete this parttime over a period of approximately 8 months.

Graduates are allocated additional paid study leave entitlements to prepare for and attend exams, and attend their admission ceremony.

The graduate program begins with a two week induction, including intensive PLT skills training with the College of Law. Following your induction to the firm, each of your rotations will begin with an orientation to the team, covering all the essential skills and resources you need for that particular rotation.

Additionally, there is a formalised Legal and Skills Academy graduate training program which runs regularly.

Our library team also deliver a research skills training program where they will teach you how to use the library resources and legal databases most efficiently and will help refine your legal research skills.

Outside of the formalised graduate training sessions, you will also be able to attend any of the CLEs run by your team and you can register to attend any of the additional development programs coordinated by our learning & development team.

How many graduates does the firm typically take?

Approximately 14–16 annually Does the firm offer deferment of a graduate offer?

Yes Are graduate offers made solely from the group of previous clerks?

Yes What is the firm’s approach to the continuing education of its employees?

Subject to eligibility criteria, the firm will provide financial assistance and study leave for lawyers undertaking LLMs or similar (e.g. Securities Institute) relevant to their role within the firm.

What other opportunities and experiences does the firm offer its graduates e.g. secondments or travel opportunities?

We run an Asian Rotation Program. Applications open

in July and the successful applicants will complete their third rotation in one of our Asian offices. We have been running this program successfully since 2012.

We act for individuals and notfor-profit organisations in a wide range of matters. Our work includes providing legal opinions and advice, drafting contracts and other documents, research, negotiation, litigation, law and policy reform and community legal education.

Pro bono work

Ashurst is a signatory to the National Pro Bono Resource Centre’s Aspirational Target of 35 hours of pro bono work per lawyer per year.

During the last financial year, Ashurst acted in-house for 774 people and organisations. We assisted more than 1,000 people through external placements and provided more than 31,500 hours of pro bono legal services.

We act for individuals and not-for-profit organisations in a wide range of matters. Our work includes providing legal opinions and advice, drafting contracts and other documents, research, negotiation, litigation, law and policy reform and community legal education. The firm undertakes major legal projects, test case litigation and day-to-day matters.

In Australia we also send our lawyers and other staff on secondment to work with community legal and welfare organisations from the inner-cities to remote northern Australia. We focus on providing assistance to: • people who are disadvantaged and marginalised; • organisations assisting people who are disadvantaged or marginalised; and • and matters in the public interest.

We have a particular focus on assisting Indigenous people, people living in rural, regional and remote areas and people with a mental illness and/or intellectual disability and their carers.

We also use the wider resources of the firm to support community legal and welfare organisations.

Our meeting rooms, training and legal education facilities, library support, graphic design, technology and administrative support are all provided free of charge to organisations falling within our pro bono program.

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Native Title, Energy and Resources I studied native title for about three hours during my law undergrad. It was included in one lesson for a property law course, but would not be a mandatory part of the exam, we were told. As most people do, I took that as code for ‘no need to study this’, and didn’t pay it much attention. At that time I didn’t think I would ever need to know much about native title. A few years later I was appearing before a FederalCourt judge arguing why my client should not be struck off as a respondent to native title claim proceedings. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Today, native title is a core part of my practice, and has been ever since I became a lawyer in Ashurst’s mining and energy team about six years ago.

In fact, the native title work I did during my graduate year was the main reason why I decided to become an energy and resources lawyer. The native title work I did in the first few months of my legal career has shaped its direction since.

Since being exposed to native title law in practice, I’ve come to regard it as one of the most interesting, intellectually challenging, and socially relevant areas of law on offer in a commercial law firm. It is an area of law that can require you to dissect quite academic issues about legal plurality and the interaction between an indigenous system of law and the common law Australia inherited upon sovereignty. On the other hand, native title issues can also have immediate practical consequences for our clients, who are principally in the business of building big things in regional parts of Australia where good relationships with local communities are crucial.

In my graduate and first two years as a lawyer, I worked in Ashurst’s Brisbane office with the energy and resources team. We acted for a number of mining and energy companies with operations across Queensland; from Mt Isa, to Cape York, to Stradbroke Island and the vast Central-West of the State. I was responsible for managing our clients’ participation in the native title claims that were on foot across Queensland, which were slowly making their way through the Federal Court determination process. This meant I was frequently instructed to appear at Federal Court directions hearings in Brisbane, and was often asked to travel to exotic destinations like Charleville, Townsville and Cairns, to appear at regional directions hearings when the Federal Court went on circuit. (If you don’t know where Charleville is, I can tell you it is a long way from home.)

While managing around 100 native title claims

for a dozen or so clients was a little overwhelming at times, it gave me hands on litigation experience that few other non-litigation lawyers in the firm had. The native title experience I gained in Brisbane helped me tremendously when the time came to move to Melbourne, as there was little demand for a Queensland energy and resources lawyer in Victoria. Since making that move, my native title practice has expanded to include work in every State and Territory in Australia, and I have acted for a broader class of energy, resources and infrastructure clients, while still maintaining a strong foothold in the East Coast mining and energy practice.

You might think that native title is a relatively unimportant area of law for the clients of a large, commercial firm like Ashurst. In reality, native title, and the related fields of Indigenous cultural heritage and Aboriginal land rights law, is likely to affect any client whose business involves doing things in remote parts of the country or on public land in urban centres.

For clients of our energy, resources and infrastructure practice, native title is a fundamental part of the project development work that we help them with.

That work is not limited to representing clients in native title claims. The majority of work we do in the native title and indigenous land law space involves negotiating agreements with indigenous groups and advising clients on the potential native title approval requirements for their projects. We are always working closely with the public relations or stakeholder engagement teams within our clients, and working through native title approval questions with government solicitors and officials. Clients also come to us to help them develop their own policies on indigenous relations issues, and to help them craft arrangements with indigenous groups to facilitate cultural, employment and commercial opportunities. The significance of the human rights of indigenous peoples under international law is becoming an increasingly active and interesting part of the advisory work that we do.

While native title is itself somewhat of a niche area, it is always engaged through activity under other State or Commonwealth legislation. This means that native title questions can arise in almost any legal context that involves doing things on the ground, and present a diverse spectrum of issues. Native title, and the broader energy, resources and infrastructure field, would be a good opportunity for graduates interested in working in the major projects space who have an interest in stakeholder relations and corporate social responsibility issues.

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Level 19, CBW, 181 William Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9617 4200 W: www.bakermckenzie.com/careers/australia/melbourne HR Contact Natalie Mascarenhas, Talent Management Consultant E: natalie.mascarenhas@bakermckenzie.com P: +61 03 9617 4349 Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship cvMail

Baker & Mckenzie Born Global

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship N/A

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 12–14 Intake 1: 12–14 Intake 2: TBC Intake 3: TBC Key Dates Intake 1: November – December 2015 Intake 2: TBC Intake 3: TBC Applications Open: 9.00am Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: 11.59pm Sunday 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: 10.00am Tuesday 13 – Wednesday 14 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 5–7 International students considered: Yes – provided they have the right to work during the clerkship period.

LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About us

At Baker & McKenzie we are different in the way we think, work and behave. Like no other law firm we were born global.

Baker & McKenzie was conceived and built as a global law firm, so thinking and working globally is embedded in our culture – and we understand the challenges of the global economy. We were formed in 1949 when an entrepreneurial Chicago attorney, Russell Baker, met the litigator, John McKenzie. McKenzie shared Baker’s vision of creating the world’s first multicultural, global law firm and our first office outside the USA was opened in Caracas in 1955.

We are one of the world’s largest law firms by markets, revenue and headcount and now have a network of 77 offices in 47 countries around the world.

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Manila in 1963, and have grown to 17 full-service offices across 13 jurisdictions. With more than 1,000 locally qualified lawyers across the region, and 77 offices globally, Baker & McKenzie is the firm with the greatest depth and breadth of coverage across the dynamic Asia Pacific markets.

We have been a global law firm in Australia since 1964 and our Australian practice is now the fourth largest in our network with more than 85 Partners and over 190 lawyers across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Baker & McKenzie Australia offers our people access to complex, market-leading matters for leading multinational and domestic companies and the ability to work with some of the world’s best legal minds – people who know the law and who understand business. We have an unrivalled ability to provide training and secondment opportunities across our global network. Locally, we have an inclusive culture of learning, coaching and opportunity where you will work in small teams on matters that often cross borders.

We value people who think ahead and get noticed.

Practice areas

• Banking & Finance • Corporate • Commercial Real Estate • Construction • Dispute Resolution & Litigation • Employment & Industrial Relations • Energy, Resources, Infrastructure & Corporate • Technology, Communications & Commercial

as well as firm-wide sessions on a range of legal and non-legal topics.

You will also be supported at every stage by our graduate team in Talent Management who will facilitate a comprehensive development program for you – including induction and skills development (such as business communication, networking skills and other skills crucial to ensuring you have a successful clerkship). We will also provide you with opportunities to enable you to network with colleagues around the firm – through our ‘speed networking’ program, social events with your buddy, our partners and lawyers, and our end of year party.

The firm offers summer clerks the opportunity to apply for casual research clerk positions. We aim to fill the casual research clerk roles with our previous summer clerks who are in their final year of university. This is a useful way to gain more practical legal experience and stay connected with the firm after your clerkship.

We also fill the majority of our graduate roles with former summer clerks. In accordance with the specific requirements in the LIV Traineeship Guidelines 2015, students who have completed a summer clerkship (or a minimum of 30 days paralegal work) with the firm within the two years preceding the date of offer are eligible to receive a priority offer for a graduate position with the firm.

In addition, summer clerks who accept a graduate role with the firm are eligible to apply for an ‘international clerkship’, with the opportunity to work in one of our overseas offices in the year following their summer clerkship.

Seasonal Clerkship program

Graduate Traineeship program

We consult with our summer clerks before they commence to understand whether there are any areas of law in which they are particularly interested or practice groups which they would like to experience.

We structure their placements according to these preferences where possible. Summer clerks will complete a placement in one of our specialist areas but are encouraged to seek out work from other practice groups.

Right from the start, our summer clerks get involved in real work. You will be exposed to our Australian and international clients through client meetings, shadowing, research and other everyday activities within your assigned practice group.

Our summer clerks work closely with other lawyers and are guided by a supervising partner/ senior associate and associate ‘buddy’. You will develop practical and legal skills through our national learning program for junior lawyers and by attending workshops specifically designed for summer clerks,

At Baker & McKenzie, we have a deep commitment to your development. We work with each graduate to create a tailored development plan aligned with the graduate’s career goals. To help you reach your goals, we offer tailored learning opportunities – from seminars on core legal topics to skills development in areas like effective business writing, drafting and presenting.

We also work hard to facilitate your on-the-job learning and the many ways it happens – through informal mentoring relationships, client secondments, involving you in global teams working on international deals, or supporting you to run your own file as part of our award-winning pro bono program.

To make sure you get the strongest possible start to your career, we invest in your development by covering the costs of your Practical Legal Training and through our dedicated graduate professional development program. We also cover the costs of your admission and practising certificate.

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Our regional practice group structure means many of our lawyers attend regional training in our Asia Pacific offices and, once you finish your graduate program, you will travel overseas to attend a regional orientation program with other mid-level associates from the region.

Graduates complete three rotations of six months each, over an 18 month period, before they join a particular practice group as an associate. This gives you meaningful exposure to a broad range of legal practice areas. You are assigned a supervising partner and an associate ‘buddy’ in each rotation to oversee your on-the-job and formal learning.

What really distinguishes us from other firms though, particularly for those at the beginning of their career, is our global approach to development.

What we look for

We look for people who enjoy a challenge and seek new opportunities; who share our global perspective; who have sound academics and are practical in their approach; who like taking responsibility and getting things done; who express themselves confidently while staying open to new ideas; who are clientfocussed and strive to provide excellent service to their clients; and who seek a friendly and inclusive culture that encourages making a difference to our local and global communities.

What distinguishes us

Our difference is in our unique values: our passion for being global, our culture of friendship, our commercial pragmatism, our support for entrepreneurship, our commitment to development, our focus on contributing to the community, and our genuine focus on maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment for all of our people.

What really distinguishes us from other firms though, particularly for those at the beginning of their career, is our global approach to development. Because we have been global from the beginning, we have well established regional and global programs and a deeply embedded culture of knowledge sharing, support and mentoring both within and across offices.

Our global development roadmap, the Development Framework, clearly explains what success looks like at each career stage at Baker & McKenzie. It is the

product of a careful study of our clients’ and lawyers’ views about what success looks like at our firm. A living document, the Development Framework shapes the way we recruit, select, develop, manage and promote our lawyers. For you, the Development Framework means always having a clear career roadmap, empowering you to plan and drive your development – formally and on the job – at every stage.

Our lawyers benefit from an Australian professional development curriculum based on the Development Framework. We pay serious attention to black letter law for both junior and senior lawyers while also offering practice-specific skills and knowledge development at the local, regional and global levels. We encourage lawyers to build core professional skills from the beginning. For example, our communication programs include a focus on clear, powerful business writing and effective speaking.

Our associates attend regional training as well as practice group specific events and conferences held throughout the region in order to help develop global networks and legal skills.

Our associates also attend regional transition programs at each stage of their career – when they transition from junior to mid-level associate, from mid-level associate to senior associate and from senior associate to partner. These programs provide development in the key skills which our lawyers need at each stage such as people leadership, business development and project management, and also enable our lawyers to foster deep relationships with international peers at the same career stage. Recently, programs have been held in Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, and Tokyo.

We also provide a number of scholarships to our lawyers for full-time graduate legal study outside their home jurisdictions, ideally in a college or university near one of our offices. Each scholarship is awarded for a minimum of 12 months of study. Our lawyers can also apply to attend prestigious summer school courses in the USA, studying American and international law among professionals from all over the world.

What is the firm’s approach to pro bono work?

We care about the same things you do. Poverty, hunger and homelessness. The health of our planet. Social justice. Quality legal representation and access to justice for all. We believe that connecting with the community and sharing one’s skills and time with those in need are core professional responsibilities. In 2014, we contributed more than 9000 pro bono hours to more than 200 individual members of our community,

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charities and other not-for-profit organisations and about 75% of our legal staff participated in our pro bono matters. As a summer clerk and graduate lawyer, you will work closely with other lawyers to run pro bono matters and you will have the opportunity to participate in our community service initiatives.

Baker & McKenzie lawyers are actively encouraged to undertake pro bono work. Some of our recent pro bono matters include advising members of the Stolen Generation in relation to potential claims arising out of their removal and/or time in care; representing asylum seekers in the Federal courts and seeking judicial review of decisions relating to their refugee status; and assisting seriously ill clients with their legal affairs. Our lawyers also regularly undertake pro bono legal work for disadvantaged clients at outreach legal clinics in Sydney and Melbourne.

Our pro bono work also extends globally. For example, we are currently drafting papers for publication at the world’s first international conference for the legal rights of street youth.

We also provide pro bono legal advice to a range of not-for-profit and charity organisations on a variety of legal issues. For example, we have advised organisations dedicated to assisting victims of human trafficking and we have assisted a not-for-profit organisation with the development of a national mentoring program to support and mentor LGBTI students and young professionals. Elsewhere, our lawyers helped a pro bono client launch one of the first community-funded solar energy projects in Australia. We also provide pro bono support to clients whose systems enable the public to donate more efficiently to Australian not-for-profit causes and social enterprises.

We care about the same things you do. Poverty, hunger and homelessness. The health of our planet. Social justice. Quality legal representation and access to justice for all.

Youth Off the Streets, 20th Man Fund, MS Australia, Project Futures and the Aids Council of New South Wales. Some of our fundraising activities include charity film nights, trivia evenings and bake-offs.

What extra-curricular benefits and activities does your firm offer?

Baker & McKenzie recognises the need to support our people and offers a range of benefits that include salary continuance insurance,personal travel insurance, salary packaging, corporate discounts (such as for Apple products, gym memberships, movie tickets and numerous car brands), study assistance (both payment towards further study, and study leave), and a range of rewards for those who go ‘above and beyond’ normal role requirements.

In addition, Baker & McKenzie is committed to ensuring its employees have a healthy work/life balance and offers massages, flu vaccinations, counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and our ‘Baker Balance’ program which includes a range of workshops and sessions available to all members of the firm in areas such as nutrition, exercise, stress prevention, meditation, sleep, mental health awareness, environmentally sustainable living and other general lifestyle issues.

We have an active Social and Sports Committee which organises monthly ‘themed’ Friday night drinks; morning teas, afternoon teas and lunches for various celebrations throughout the year; two annual social events for employees and their families; and end of financial year and end of year events. The committee also organises numerous team sporting events, such as netball and boot camp, and other sporting events such as Run for the Kids, Mothers Day Classic, and Run Melbourne.

Legal and non-legal staff also participate in a variety of community service initiatives. Community service opportunities include mentoring year 9 students at risk of disengaging from education as part of the LEAPS (Law firms Encouraging and Assisting Promising Students) program, exchanging PenPal letters with students from a remote regional community, and fundraising or volunteering for charities such as — 67 —

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International Clerkship In Frankfurt, Germany Emma Burns – Graduate, Baker & McKenzie

After completing a clerkship with Baker & McKenzie in 2013, and subsequently being offered a graduate position with the firm, I was fortunate to be selected to participate in the International Clerkship program in February 2015.

With some trepidation at the prospect of experiencing a European winter, I travelled to Frankfurt, Germany, where I spent four weeks working in the Employment practice group. I was excited about working in Frankfurt because of its status as a significant financial and legal centre in Europe and the sound reputation of the Frankfurt office, particularly the reputation of its Employment team.

Although Germany is not generally renowned for its hospitality, I was warmly welcomed by the Employment team in Frankfurt and settled easily into my role. My few self-taught words in German were quickly rendered unnecessary by the fluency with which all members of the office spoke English. Thanks to the benefits of Germany efficiency, my apartment was a 5-minute metro ride from the office, and within a half hour’s walk of the main shopping, financial and cultural areas of Frankfurt.

My clerkship in Frankfurt clearly reinforced the ‘truly global’ nature of Baker & McKenzie. During my first week, I was fortunate to be able to attend one of the monthly ‘Passionately Global’ breakfasts, where a lawyer who has worked for a period of time in one of the firm’s other offices shares some insights into that country’s culture and their way of doing business. We heard from a partner in the Employment group who spent a year in the Chicago office – and enjoyed a themed breakfast that included bagels.

The team also regularly invited me along to firm meetings and development sessions, practice group meetings, and social lunches. The Frankfurt office actually has its own company ‘bistro’ in the building where many people eat lunch and get their morning coffee.

In terms of work, I was able to learn about, review and amend bilingual employment agreements, and conducted research on the employment aspects of corporate asset deals on 28 different EU countries.

I was pleased to be able to use some foreign language skills to conduct research about a secondment involving three different jurisdictions too. I also helped the team prepare and coordinate an advice for a multinational client requiring employment documents

to be prepared and reviewed by various Baker & McKenzie offices throughout Europe. In addition, I was regularly invited to accompany associates to court, which gave me a valuable insight into the Labor Court system in Germany. Interestingly, you can become a judge in Germany soon after finishing university and, in fact, cannot apply to begin a judgeship if you are over 35 years old.

The practice group I worked with are experts in various parts of German employment law, and have used that expertise and their international connections to build a robust, interesting cross-border practice.

While Frankfurt is often overlooked by tourists, it has the headquarters of the Deutsche Bank, Trade Fair halls, museums, fantastic food markets and a huge international airport – making it a wonderful place to live and work. I thoroughly enjoyed spending my free time exploring the city on foot, getting to know some of the local interns, and savouring the local food and drink such as ‘applewine’. I was also lucky to be in Germany during the time of ‘carnival’, an important and very enjoyable celebration that involves lots of floats, costumes, confetti and Berliners ( jam donuts!). Frankfurt is also so well connected by rail that I had the chance to visit various small typical German towns in Hessen state, and take a weekend trip to Paris on the fast train and be back in time for work on Monday.

My international clerkship in Germany has greatly enriched my understanding of the way Baker & McKenzie operates seamlessly and maintains its culture across borders. The practice group I worked with are experts in various parts of German employment law, and have used that expertise and their international connections to build a robust, interesting cross-border practice. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience and I look forward to implementing my insights as a graduate in 2015.

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Mergers & Acquisitions Tyson May – Senior Associate, Baker & McKenzie

As a M&A lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a number of high-profile, complex, multi-jurisdictional deals.

My work has primarily focussed on private M&A, in particular private equity, which has provided exposure to sophisticated clients who are innovative and challenging in their deal making.

What I love about the work is that it’s always interesting. I’ve worked with a diverse array of companies across a range of industries and sectors, from handbags and accessories to underground hard rock mining, and each new company has its own risks and drivers to understand in order to advise them.

At the same time, I’ve also had the opportunity to work for some of my clients over a number of years and have developed more specialised knowledge in the sectors in which they operate, which is integral to building strong client relationships.

M&A also provides exposure to a full gamut of legal issues. We work frequently with other specialists within the firm, whether it be our tax colleagues giving advice which impacts on the transaction structure, employment colleagues facilitating the transfer of employees in a business acquisition or obtaining competition approval to complete a deal.

This level of collaboration is not just limited to Australia. Bakers specialises in cross-border transactions and we routinely work with our overseas colleagues to manage legal issues in multiple jurisdictions.

Bakers prides itself on its global network (with 77 offices in 47 countries) and the global mobility of its lawyers. As a third year lawyer, I had the great opportunity to experience this first-hand when I was posted to our Tokyo office for 6 months as part of the firm’s global mobility program.

This program provided me with the opportunity to live and work in Asia and extend my legal and business experience in a new jurisdiction. It also built my confidence in dealing with professionals from a new culture.

During my time with the corporate team in Tokyo, I was involved in several deals which enabled me to gain experience in cross-border inbound investment while developing personal and professional relations with my Japanese colleagues, many of whom I still keep in touch with today.

The opportunity to develop personal connections with my overseas colleagues has been further

enhanced through the firm’s regional training programs, which bring together associates from across Asia to further enhance our professional development and business development skills through knowledge sharing and co-operation. I have also attended regional M&A training programs which have provided me with a wonderful opportunity to understand the comparative law positions of the various jurisdictions throughout the region and also the current trends in M&A. I’ve also been fortunate enough to undertake secondments with some of our clients, both domestically and overseas. Client secondments provide a unique opportunity to be deeply involved in the day-to-day operations of the client and develop an intimate understanding of their business. My secondments also offered the chance to experience the full cycle of an M&A deal, from the point of inception through to completion and then to integration. It’s also an interesting dynamic being the client receiving legal services rather than being the service provider.

For a dynamic legal career, that will literally take you places, I highly recommend working in M&A with Baker & McKenzie Australia.

What I love about the work is that it’s always interesting.

I’ve worked with a diverse array of companies across a range of industries and sectors, from handbags and accessories to underground hard rock mining, and each new company has its own risks and drivers to understand in order to advise them…. For a dynamic legal career, that will literally take you places, I highly recommend working in M&A with Baker & McKenzie Australia.

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Level 18, 333 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: 03 9286 6000 W: www.claytonutz.com HR Contact Katie Ryan, People & Development Consultant P: 03 9286 6636 E: katieryan@claytonutz.com Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship

Clayton Utz A reputation for standing out.

And for being outstanding.

Please visit www.claytonutz.com/careers and go to our career opportunities page. All applications must include a Covering letter, CV and Academics.

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship We recruit our graduates from the Clerkship Program.

Clerkship Positions Available The Melbourne office will typically take 30 clerks in total, however this number fluctuates year to year depending on business needs.

Intake 1: 15 Intake 2: 15 Key Dates Intake 1: 26 November 2015 – 18 December 2015 Intake 2: 23 June 2016 – 15 July 2016 Applications Open: Monday 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 10–15 International students considered: No LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: We prefer applicants to be in their Penultimate year (4th year), but we may consider students in their final year.

About us

Clayton Utz is one of Australia’s leading law firms, with a reputation for standing out – and for being outstanding. With 186 partners and over 1,200 employees across six offices, we continue to build on our reputation for confident, innovative and incisive legal advice.

Practice areas

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• Tax • Workplace Relations, Employment & Safety • Pro Bono

an understanding of client service and self-motivation.

Most importantly, we are looking for clerks who we’d enjoy working alongside. We want clerks who are going to be a good cultural fit and who embody the firm’s values, every day, in all that they do.

Seasonal Clerkship program

Our Clerkship Program will expose you to the fast pace of a full-service commercial law firm and show you the law in action. You’ll be working under the guidance of some of the sharpest legal minds in Australia, on challenging, complex and high-profile transactions and matters. You’ll be mentored by partners and lawyers who are leaders in their fields, in a firm where individuality is embraced and innovation actively encouraged.

Over the course of the program, you’ll join legal teams and work on actual matters for our clients across a wide range of legal areas, under the supervision of a partner or senior associate, and with the support of the team. You’ll have an opportunity to discover the office environment and culture at Clayton Utz first-hand, and to extend yourself and expand your knowledge.

Graduate Traineeship program

No matter how good your law degree, there’s always a gap between theory and practice, and finishing university can be daunting. How do you make the jump to working in a commercial law firm?

That’s where we come in. The Clayton Utz Graduate Program provides the perfect foundation for a legal career. Graduates hit the ground running by working on complex and sophisticated legal issues, and our rotation program means they discover different areas and find the right fit.

The program gives them a week-long orientation and two six-month rotations in different practice areas, and additional intensive training. We reimburse graduates fees for the College of Law or an alternative PLT program.

What we look for

The most important ingredient in our success is our people.

We’re looking for clerks who are personable, practical, commercially-savvy, as well as flexible. Our lawyers undertake complex and innovative legal work, so it’s important that they are intelligent and motivated individuals who aren’t afraid of a challenge. We’ll look at whether they’ve had a broad range of experiences, such as part-time employment, voluntary work, legal experience (voluntary or otherwise), and sporting, cultural or community pursuits. They need to show they have behavioural skills such as time management, initiative, goal-setting and achievement, teamwork,

What distinguishes us

People. It always starts with people. At Clayton Utz, we’ve built a team of down-to-earth, collaborative lawyers who know that at the heart of exceptional client service is knowing what your client needs. We offer the sharpest legal minds. The clearest advice that cuts through the complexity, so our clients can concentrate on the things that really matter. And an unshakeable sense of what’s possible.

This offers our graduates the opportunities to work on cutting-edge, complex transactions and litigation with lawyers who are recognised as leaders in their fields. We also provide first-class training and development to support our lawyers to be the best they can be. As one of the world’s top 10 pro bono firms*, graduates will also have the chance to contribute to our pro bono practice and help make a difference to the individuals and organisations it supports. * Clayton Utz was named among the ten leading pro bono firms in the world in the inaugural Who’s Who Legal Global Pro Bono Survey. The survey recognises firms that are leading the way in their pro bono contributions, levels of participation and efforts to institutionalise pro bono work.

Employee learning and development programs and opportunities

Clayton Utz has a strong focus on professional development for all employees with an objective to keep all specialist knowledge and skills up to date. This is offered through continuing legal education, professional development training programs, coaching and on the job training.

Pro bono work

Clayton Utz is a global leader in pro bono, with one of the largest Pro Bono practices of any law firm outside of the US. All lawyers, from graduates to partners, are expected to complete a minimum of 40 hours pro bono work a year. We seek to provide access to advice and representation for all, believing that this is crucial to the integrity of our legal system. Most of our clients are those who would otherwise slip through the cracks of our legal system.including Amnesty International Australia, The Arts Centre of Australia, The Indigenous Education Foundation, The Bicycle Institute, Bush Heritage Australia, ChildFund Australia, The Human Rights Law Centre, The Ovarian Cancer research Foundation, The Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, WWF.

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Major Projects & Construction at Clayton Utz Kate Grutzner and Josh Singer – Lawyers

Why Major Projects & Construction?

Clayton Utz’s Construction and Major Projects practice is one of the leading construction practices in Australia. The team has a fantastic range of clients – Federal and State Government departments, major multinational companies, and large contractors – and works on high-profile building and infrastructure projects around the state and the country. The firm is particularly well placed to provide a unique insight into what it’s like to do work with various government departments, and this is something anyone looking to engage with that kind of work should consider.

The firm offers both transactional (‘front-end’) and dispute (‘back-end’) services, and although most lawyers specialise in one of these areas, both teams work very closely together and provide their insight to achieve the best possible outcomes in both drafting agreements and resolving disputes. As a junior, you will get to experience both advisory and litigious work which will make you a more well-rounded practitioner, and will better inform your understanding in the area that you decide to pursue.

The skills you learn are invaluable – helping bring together a range of parties to achieve not just a commercial outcome but also an outcome that is for the public good, drafting incredibly complex agreements and seeing the results of your work in a really tangible way.

The skills you learn are invaluable – helping bring together a range of parties to achieve not just a commercial outcome but also an outcome that is for the public good, drafting incredibly complex agreements and seeing the results of your work in a really tangible way. Construction disputes often involve areas of law beyond construction law, such as contract, tort, insolvency and corporations law, so the work is diverse, challenging and exhilarating. In addition to gaining court experience, construction disputes often pass through negotiation, mediation and arbitration before ending up in court. This gives you a broad range of experience and skills in a market where litigation is often a last resort.

Why Clayton Utz?

As someone who developed an interest in construction law during my time at university, everyone told me that there was no better place to be than Clayton Utz. Not only does it provide the opportunity to work with supremely talented lawyers and barristers on a daily basis, but the work is exciting, interesting and often involves large teams of people. There is nothing more satisfying than working on a dispute or contract with a large team and seeing all your hard work and collaboration resulting in a deal reaching close or a dispute being settled.

The Clayton Utz construction team has something for everybody – both transactional and dispute – resolution opportunities, getting to work with some of the best lawyers and clients in the business, including many Government clients, secondment opportunities, and the chance to see the impact that you and your team have made out in the real world.

Clayton Utz advises a range of clients in the development and implementation of the documentation and arrangements that allow major projects and infrastructure to be built and run. The firm is particularly well known for its work on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) which bring together the public and private sectors to build major infrastructure – many of the roads, railways, ports, prisons, courts and hospitals around the state and the country were built under this model, and Clayton Utz is at the forefront of this area.

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Bourke Place, 600 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9672 3000 W: www.corrs.com.au HR Contact Lauren Tropeano, Human Resources Adviser E: lauren.tropeano@corrs.com.au Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship Via our website – www.corrs.com.au/graduates Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship

Corrs Chambers Westgarth Celebrate your Independent Spirit

Via our website – www.corrs.com.au/graduates

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Intake 1: Intake 2: Intake 3:

Required: Approximately 40 Approximately 10–13 Approximately 10–13 Approximately 10–13

Key Dates Intake 1: 23 November – 16 December 2015 Intake 2: January – February 2016 Intake 3: July 2016 Applications Open: Monday 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 10–15 International students considered: We will accept applications from international students with working rights in Australia LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About Corrs

Corrs Chambers Westgarth is a premium independent law firm. We emphasise the independent part because it’s important to who we are and how we work. Independence isn’t just a description of our position in the market, it also describes how we think, our innovative style and bold decision-making.

Our vision as a world class law firm is to drive Australia’s competitiveness and economic engagement with Asia. We are based in Australia and operate internationally, wherever our clients need our services.

With 1000 employees, 550 lawyers and 125 partners, we have the scale that allows us to take on the largest and most challenging matters for major organisations internationally. As well as be the right size for a culture of inclusion.

Areas of practice

Corrs is a corporate law firm, acting for organisations, rather than individuals. The firm works through three main operating divisions: — 75 —

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• Corporate, Finance & Tax (Energy & Resources, Corporate Advisory, Banking & Finance and Taxation) • Property & Development (Property & Infrastructure, Environment & Planning and Construction) • Litigation and Workplace Relations (Litigation, Workplace Relations, Intellectual Property, Technology & Competition) What sets Corrs apart from other firms?

Corrs is a firm that thinks strategically, not just in its legal work, but also for the firm’s future and the success of its people. Corrs is known for its clear vision and ability to develop and implement strategy, as well as its lawyers’ ability to help clients achieve their business goals.

Corrs’ culture of performance excellence drives this achievement and can be seen in our mentoring, coaching and comprehensive learning and development programs, both formal and informal. We draw on the best expertise in Corrs’ own lawyers as well as external specialists to make sure our people never stop learning.

The combination of these factors creates a firm that celebrates its independence, is open to new ideas, has the courage to think and act differently from the rest of the market, and thrives on new challenges and opportunities.

Our people thrive on this, too. We call it the inspiring workplace.

Corrs is a firm that thinks strategically, not just in its legal work, but also for the firm’s future and the success of its people.

Corrs is known for its clear vision and ability to develop and implement strategy, as well as its lawyers’ ability to help clients achieve their business goals.

Why Corrs?

Choosing your law firm is as important as your choice to be a lawyer. It will determine the calibre of people around you, the quality of work you do, what kind of training you’ll get and how much responsibility you’ll be given. All of which adds up to the rate at which you

learn and the level of satisfaction you feel in your job.

Choosing to begin your career at Corrs is about exactly that – a career, not just a job. The reasons are simple: great people, work, training and above all, great opportunities earlier in your career than at other firms. And an open, friendly culture that helps you thrive both professionally and personally.

Our commitment to providing our people with the opportunity to build successful careers has made us a much sought-after employer.

We are consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice, and are the only large national law firm to be awarded ALB Gold Employer of Choice for two years in a row.

Working with the best lawyers / awards

Corrs is consistently recognised for world class services, client results and as an employer of choice.

More than three-quarters of our partners are named as Best Lawyers in the annual Best Lawyers peer review, many of them in multiple practice areas.

Fifty-eight of our partners and special counsel are named leading lawyers in Chambers Asia Pacific and Global Guides and the firm is ranked in 22 key areas.

Our commitment to providing our people with the opportunity to build successful careers has made us a much sought-after employer. We are consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice, and are the only large national law firm to be awarded ALB Gold Employer of Choice for two years in a row – as voted by our staff in an independent national survey. In 2014 we received the WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation, this replaces the 2013 EOWA Employer of Choice for Women award, which we received for the previous seven years in a row.

A number of awards recognise our innovation, including an Australian International Design Award for Corrs Incisive Advice Template and an ALB Australasian Law Award (Innovative Use of Technology) for our CASEFOLIO iPad App. We are consistently honoured with both finalist nominations and category wins at the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards. And in the recent Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards, four of the winners were Corrs people.

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We like to think we played an important part in helping them achieve their goals.

What significant work Corrs has done recently?

We are excited to work with some of the biggest organisations in the world on their most important matters.

Our clients include more than half the top fifty ASX listed companies, some of the largest privately owned companies in Australia and a number of global Fortune five hundred companies like Johnson & Johnson, General Electric, Wesfarmers, Microsoft, and Pfizer.

We work with well-known organisations like Vodafone Hutchison, ANZ, BG Group, Mirvac, Woolworths and Carlton United Breweries, mining giants like BP, Woodside and Fortescue Metal Group and leaders in finance like NAB, and CBA. But we also work with governments, Federal and State, on significant matters including the $43b National Broadband Network Project.

We work on big deals, too. Like advising one of Australia’s biggest resources project, Japan’s Inpex Browse Limited’s $24b Ichthys Gas Field Development Project.

We were Australian counsel for US talent agency William Morris, which represents stars like Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey, when it acquired 49 percent of industry-leading global creative agency, Droga5.

And we advised Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited (Devondale) to secure a landmark 10 year, $2b milk supply agreement with Coles that will deliver a better return for farmers.

We also protect a long list of famous international brands including Quiksilver, Hermès, Cartier, Ferrari, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Moet & Chandon.

The variety is endless.

Culture

Ours is an energetic and exciting environment in which our people are motivated and challenged to do their best. An open culture, where people feel free to ask questions or talk through an issue. We seek out the best people to work for us, so we can provide the best results for our clients. And we support and train them to do just that. We consider our learning and development to be the most innovative, progressive and supportive people development program in the industry.

Our culture is defined by collaboration and opportunity. A supportive workplace through teamwork, mentoring and flexible resourcing. Opportunity for professional and personal growth and innovative opportunities for both legal and business services staff. An open environment in which diversity in expe-

rience, opinions and skills is embraced and celebrated.

And a reward and remuneration system that drives excellence across the board.

Collaboration and opportunity extend well beyond the daily legal work. They extend into Corrs’ pro bono and community efforts and social events as well.

Corrs people work together, but it’s not all work.

Ours is an energetic and exciting environment in which our people are motivated and challenged to do their best. An open culture, where people feel free to ask questions or talk through an issue.

Pro Bono & Community

Helping others is a key aspect of the culture at Corrs and can be seen every day in every office at Corrs.

It happens in three ways – through pro bono legal work, volunteering and philanthropy.

Corrs provides pro bono legal services for disadvantaged individuals who might not otherwise have access to legal representation through the conduct of nine legal clinics and referred public interest matters.

We also act for charitable and not-for-profit organisations with access to justice objectives, or who support one of our priority social causes.

The firm is the principal legal partner for the United Nations Refugee Agency in Australia, and we work with many other organisations including Yooralla, The Salvation Army, The Big Issue and Very Special Kids. We have been associated with Oxfam for more than 20 years.

Pro Bono is one of the graduate program rotations, so graduates are involved early in their time at Corrs. This happens through nine clinic-style arrangements across Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, which offer pro bono services for some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged individuals for whom access to justice is almost non-existent.

Through our Pro Bono work our lawyers become accomplished in areas of law that they aren’t usually exposed to, which helps them attain a well rounded legal education. Our staff are proud of Corrs’ contribution to the wider community. They enjoy it and see it as a valuable part of their professional and personal growth.

Diversity

At Corrs we want the best people and we want

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diversity of thought. As a law firm operating in the global economy, Corrs seeks to make diversity a strength, with a workplace that champions differences and ensures a richer and more engaging environment. An environment that encourages and retains talented people. We provide flexible working arrangements to support our people as their needs change throughout their lives and careers.

We are serious about enabling a truly diverse workforce. We were the first national law firm to publicly launch an ASX Compliant Diversity Policy in February 2012. Our Diversity Policy is tangible evidence of the firm’s commitment to improving our performance in the retention and elevation of women at Corrs.

It’s important for our people, our clients and our work.

We continued to raise the bar in 2014 when we were named by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as one of only 76 Australian organisations to receive the Employer of Choice for Gender Equity citation. The citation replaces the 2013 EOWA Employer of Choice for Women award, which we received for the previous seven years in a row.

like to find new ways of doing things and aren’t afraid to be independent and bold in their actions.

This is a firm with a sense of purpose, so we’ll probably look for that in you, too.

Corrs is a place that celebrates individuals. We’re looking for spirited, determined graduates who think big and like doing things a little differently. In exchange for your energy and commitment we’ll provide extraordinary learning and work opportunities here and on an international stage.

What’s involved in being a clerk at Corrs?

The Corrs Seasonal Clerkship Program is a great opportunity for you to experience the people, clients, work and culture that differentiates Corrs from other law firms.

You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of Australia’s leading lawyers on high-profile work for major Australian and international clients across all industries. You’ll soon discover the standards of quality and commitment to clients required to succeed at this level.

You’ll be exposed to a broad range of interesting matters. You may also conduct research, review and present documents, as well as attend client meetings, mediations and settlements. The variety is enormous, so it’s the perfect way to discover the firm and the area of law that excites you most.

Through our Pro Bono work our lawyers become accomplished in areas of law that they aren’t usually exposed to, which helps them attain a well rounded legal education … They enjoy it and see it as a valuable part of their professional and personal growth.

What does the firm look for in a clerk/ graduate?

Launch graduate development program

Corrs is a place that celebrates individuals. We’re looking for spirited, determined graduates who think big and like doing things a little differently. In exchange for your energy and commitment we’ll provide extraordinary learning and work opportunities here and on an international stage.

We don’t look for a Corrs ‘type’ when we interview potential graduates. Corrs people are individuals, but they do share some traits.

Because this is a high performance organisation, Corrs people are good at what they do. They are able to work in a team and bring out the best in the people around them. They want to achieve the best results for the client as well as the firm and they take pride in their work and achievements. Corrs people

Our commitment to developing world class lawyers starts at day one. Our new Graduate Development Program, Launch, lays this foundation by providing rich, on the job training with a greater opportunity to work directly with partners and senior lawyers; structured learning; mentoring; and regular feedback.

Supervised by partners, you will complete three six month rotations through a variety of practice areas including corporate advisory, banking & finance; litigation & workplace relations; intellectual property, tax, property, infrastructure, construction, planning, environment, and government, as well as pro bono opportunities.

You are mentored by senior lawyers and your development is overseen by a dedicated Learning &

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Development and Human Resources team who work with partners and Division Leaders to provide you with guidance, ensuring your success.

The program begins with a residential orientation that brings graduates together from around the country in a major city location. Apart from training that enables you to hit the ground running, this four day event delivers professional relationships and friendships that last your years at Corrs and beyond.

Learning and development opportunities

Achieving our goals as a world class law firm requires people with vision, ambition, courage and commitment. We have a workplace that is engaging and truly inspiring, and what we consider to be the most innovative, progressive and supportive people development program in the industry.

Our extensive in-house learning and development program will keep your professional skills and technical knowledge up to date. We have a Legal Excellence program, practice group training sessions and career path programs tailored to each level of lawyer. We provide generous support for further undergraduate and postgraduate study. The Corrs Scholarship for Individual Excellence program also gives high performing employees the opportunity to attend short training courses at world class institutions. In the past nine years, around 200 people have travelled to study at establishments such as Harvard, Columbia and INSEAD. International strategy

Our clients compete globally and Corrs provides the legal services they need to do that effectively, no matter where they are. Our lawyers work across practice areas and geographic boundaries to drive commercial outcomes and transactions in multiple jurisdictions.

We also have a global network of the world’s best independent firms who work with us to provide the most relevant specialist expertise where and when it’s needed. With 50 firms in 20 countries, we have an extraordinary range of talent at our disposal.

Our independence means we’re not locked into one legal service provider. We connect with the best lawyers internationally to meet our clients’ specific needs.

International secondments

Our lawyers strengthen our global network and their own careers by participating in the firm’s leading secondment and scholarship programs. We invest in unique international experiences to help our lawyers grow their skills, cultural understanding and relationships worldwide.

Between 10 and 20 lawyers spend between three and 12 months working in one of our global network law firms. This provides an exciting professional experience for Corrs’ best lawyers so that they can immerse themselves in a different culture while gaining international experience and developing valuable relationships.

The Corrs global network includes more than 45 firms in 19 countries. This year Corrs lawyers have gone to the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore, China, Spain, India, Germany, Brazil and Indonesia.

Overseas secondments are available to Corrs graduates even before they start their legal careers with us. We offer our future graduates the opportunity to live and work in Tokyo for 10–12 months before joining our graduate development program.

Japanese language skills not required!

Corrs has partnered with Japanese corporate law firm Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (AM&T) to offer its Foreign Legal Trainee (FLT) Program to our future graduates. You will live and work in Tokyo and have the opportunity to further develop your legal skills while working overseas. As an FLT, you will help prepare English language documentation with Japanese lawyers. You will also have the chance to work with a variety of clients, partners and associates across the firm’s practice areas.

You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of Australia’s leading lawyers on high-profile work for major Australian and international clients across all industries. You’ll soon discover the standards of quality and commitment to clients required to succeed at this level.

Sporting and social / work life balance

It’s not all about work. At Corrs we encourage staff to be socially active and participate in social and sporting events as well as learning & development activities.

Some of our activities include our Mind, Body & Soul series, touch football, cricket day, Friday night drinks, family days, trivia nights, End of Financial Year party and Christmas Party. Corrs also provides flexible work arrangements, paid study leave, salary sacrificing and opportunities to give back to the community.

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Corrs Chambers Westgarth – Litigation Hannah Nichols – Lawyer

I never intended to become a litigation lawyer.

In fact, after completing a few clerkships and accepting a graduate position at Corrs, I was sure that litigation would not be my cup of tea. However, four years later, here I am – a litigator. Lesson one: always keep an open mind.

Most people have some rudimentary knowledge of what litigation is all about. However, despite what Suits would have us believe, working in litigation is far more complex and varied than simply rushing off to court every day. In reality, for most clients the aim of the game is to avoid going to court at all. For this reason, strategy is a central component of successfully running any litigation, and is one of the aspects of working in this area that I find most interesting.

The Corrs litigation group acts in relation to a broad range of disputes, including general commercial litigation, insolvency, media law, insurance and product liability. Since joining the litigation group, my practice has been split between general commercial litigation and consumer law litigation acting for the ACCC. The diversity of matters run by the Corrs litigation group is certainly one of the group’s benefits.

Graduate lawyers will have the opportunity to work with a number of different partners during their rotation, which I consider to be a great advantage. For my own part, the opportunity to work across a variety of areas helped me to find my niche.

As a graduate lawyer, you will undoubtedly be asked to do discovery, manage documents, summarise and index folders of materials, and file documents at court (often by sprinting down William Street to meet a 4pm deadline). However, while these less glamorous tasks are part and parcel of being a graduate, the Corrs team is excellent at involving junior lawyers in the more engaging aspects of disputes. You can expect to undertake tasks such as drafting memos, court documents and communications to the client or the other side, or completing complex research tasks. Graduates will often be invited to attend meetings, conferences, mediations and court.

To date, some of my personal work highlights have included instructing Counsel for the ACCC at liability and penalty hearings, travelling interstate with Counsel to conduct witness interviews, appearing in the Federal Court against Counsel on contested privilege issues in the return of subpoenas and negotiating

a settlement agreement with opposing Counsel during a mediation at VCAT. To be a successful litigator, I consider that logical reasoning and structured thinking are essential skills. You should enjoy reading and analysing documentary evidence to build an argument. Something that I find very satisfying about my job is being able to draw together a plethora of evidence to build a winning case for the client.

Working in litigation can often be stressful and intense (especially when there is a court deadline looming) but it is also very rewarding and interesting.

The beauty of litigation is that no two cases are the same, and it is this variety that makes the long hours and hard work worthwhile.

Working in litigation can often be stressful and intense but it is also very rewarding and interesting.

The beauty of litigation is that no two cases are the same, and it is this variety that makes the long hours and hard work worthwhile.

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Technology Law Rebecca Measday – Associate

Are you interested in working in a fast-paced, challenging and dynamic environment? If so, technology law may be for you.

Challenge and innovation

Technology develops rapidly and, in many cases, it changes and evolves much faster than the laws that seek to regulate it. The challenge for technology lawyers is to keep up.

As a technology lawyer, you are exposed to the ‘cutting edge’ of technological developments and you never know what legal challenges you may face on a day to day basis. Changes to technology have the ability to radically alter the world we live in – consider the impact that smartphones, Facebook and ‘the cloud’ have had on our day to day lives. As a technology lawyer, you have the unique opportunity to advise on the development, implementation and regulation of such technologies and to work with an interesting range of people from both Australia and overseas.

‘World-first’ opportunities

The projects technology lawyers work on may be the first of their kind in the world. For example, the Corrs team recently assisted a University to implement IBM Watson, a cognitive computing platform which can read and understand everyday language and ‘learn’ from its interactions with students. Watson is a ground-breaking new ‘smart’ technology.

The project was the first time that Watson had been implemented in a University environment anywhere in the world and, along with a simultaneous implementation at ANZ, was the first time that this technology had been implemented in Australia.

The life of a junior lawyer

As a junior technology lawyer, the kinds of work that you might do on a daily basis include: • attending contract negotiations; • drafting contracts, licences and other documents to support an IT project; • reviewing the responses to a tender for a new IT project; • reviewing a ‘new’ piece of technology and considering how ‘old’ laws might apply; • researching changes to the law in Australia and overseas and updating clients and the team;

No ‘typical’ days

In addition to advising on technology law, the Corrs IT team advises clients in relation to large scale intellectual property transactions, such as research projects. For example, last year the Corrs team advised BP in relation to its $20 million Collaborative Research Program with CSIRO in the Great Australian Bight. This project was the largest whole-ofecosystem study ever undertaken in Australia.

The team also advises on privacy and data protection, branding and advertising and general commercial issues. With such a wide variety of work, no two days as a technology lawyer are ever the same.

Few areas of the law offer as much variety as technology law. If you are worried about practicing in a ‘specialised’ area of the law, don’t be. Dedicated technology law teams, like the one at Corrs, typically offer plenty of variety, especially for junior lawyers.

An added bonus is that as technology and IP teams at large firms are generally on the smaller side, junior lawyers get the chance the work directly with (and learn from) partners and other senior members of the team.

Tips for seasonal clerks

If you are interested in pursuing a career in technology law, consider: • clerking at a firm, such as Corrs, that has a dedicated technology team; • taking relevant subjects at University (such as privacy, intellectual property, cyberlaw or media law). While law firms will not generally expect you to have any particular knowledge about specific areas of law when you start as a seasonal clerk or graduate, it can be a big help to have an understanding of some of the basic concepts; • keeping up with advances in technology and legal developments by reading the ‘technology’ section of newspapers or reading technology magazines or blogs. You can also find great articles on the websites of firms, all around the world, that specialise in IT law; and • next time it pops up, scroll through the ‘terms of use’ for an App, iTunes or Google product – these may have been drafted by a junior technology lawyer.

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Level 1, 235 Ryrie Street Geelong VIC 3220 P: +61 03 5273 5273 W: www.coulterroache.com.au HR Contact Jeanne Mackenzie, Human Resources Manager E: jmackenzie@coulterroache.com.au P: +61 03 5273 5278 Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship Email to HR Manager Jeanne Mackenzie jmackenzie@coulterroache.com.au

Coulter Roache Lawyers

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship Email to HR Manager Jeanne Mackenzie jmackenzie@coulterroache.com.au

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 20 Our Seasonal Clerkship program runs all throughout the year Each Seasonal Clerkship programme runs for a duration of 2 weeks (10 days) Key Dates Applications Open: Monday 3 August 2015 Applications Close: Friday 28 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: 12 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: Yes Applications Open: 5 October 2015 Applications Close: 6 November 2015 Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 2 Number of graduates recruited from graduate market: 2 International students considered: Yes LIV Signatory: No Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes, 4th and 5th year students only

About us

Coulter Roache Lawyers is a leading regional law firm providing high quality legal advice to corporate, small business and individual clients in Geelong and the surrounding areas for 80 years.

With over 60 staff and offices in Geelong, the Surf Coast and the Bellarine Peninsula, we are large enough to offer a wide range of legal services delivered at a local, more personalised level.

Practice areas

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Seasonal Clerkship Program

A seasonal clerkship at Coulter Roache Lawyers offers you an opportunity to experience first-hand life as a lawyer. A clerkship will give you the chance to bridge the gap between theory and practice. A number of seasonal clerks have found this to be a successful pathway to a Graduate Traineeship and a career with our firm.

What you get

During your clerkship you will have the opportunity to meet with our Chairman and Managing Principal who will share the firm’s vision and values and explain their expectations of lawyers who wish to work at Coulter Roache in the future.

You get a chance to gain an in-depth understanding of how the firm operates and it gives you a chance to see if our firm is one you might enjoy working at in the future. You will gain hands-on practical legal experience which could involve drafting correspondence and court documents, reviewing legislation and case law and observing our lawyers conduct in client meetings, mediations and court. During this time we will also learn about your abilities, skills and career aspirations.

A junior lawyer or graduate will be assigned to you as a buddy to provide support for the two week period. You will also be assigned to one department and take direction from a principal or senior lawyer.

To help you learn as much as possible and grow from your experience at the end of your seasonal clerkship a principal will provide you with formal feedback. You will have the opportunity to be involved in all activities including social events, celebrations and community involvement.

Graduate Program

The Coulter Roache graduate program gives you a first rate introduction to the law. It will ease the transition from university to working as a lawyer. You will earn valuable professional experience and ‘on the job’ learning opportunities. The program will not only enhance your technical skills, it will also develop your interpersonal and client facing skills. Graduates will do hands-on legal work from the start.

Coulter Roache takes on two graduates each year; chosen from students who have previously completed a seasonal clerkship with the firm. The program runs for 6 months, in which time you will complete three practice group rotations.

meet with you regularly to discuss your progress and answer any questions you may have. Your buddy, who will be a junior lawyer will help you transition into your new role. Your mentor will provide professional guidance and support.

The program is built on three practice group rotations which could include any of the following 6 areas of law: Corporate & Commercial, Wills, Estates and Succession Planning, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Family Law, Property & Development and Employment Law. Each rotation will start by the principal setting expectations for your rotation and at the end of each rotation you will receive feedback from your principal discussing your experiences and progress. Graduates will complete a part time Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice with the College of Law during the six month period.

What we look for

Coulter Roache will consider candidates who have strong academic results, the intelligence to tackle interesting legal matters and those who have a willingness to work productively and professionally with all levels of colleagues and clients. You will need to be proactive, motivated, ambitious, energetic and keen to learn and develop. It would be advantageous if you have part-time work experience and are involved in the Geelong community.

Employee benefits

Coulter Roache is constantly striving to improve our culture and the workplace satisfaction of our employees. We have invested into health and well-being initiatives, developing professional staff, improving benefits and incentives and expanding diversity.

We have engaged in various initiatives including Healthy Together Victoria.

Our culture is one of providing professional services, caring for individuals, allowing personal identity and respecting/accepting people’s circumstances. We have an open door policy which encourages open communication across all levels of staff.

The management team is supportive to employees and involved with the daily running of client matters and general business.

Employee health and wellbeing is promoted through providing fresh fruit daily, massages, group fitness training, health checks and the EAP (Employment Assistance Program) for staff and families.

What you get

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140 William Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9274 5000 W: www.dlapipergraduates.com.au HR Contact Samantha Clark, HR Advisor E: samantha.clark@dlapiper.com P: 03 9274 5000 Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship Through firm website and cvMail

DLA Piper

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship A seasonal clerkship is the typical path to a graduate position with the firm.

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 30 Intake 1: 10 Intake 2: 10 Intake 3: 10 Key Dates Intake 1: November – December 2015 Intake 2: January – February 2016 Intake 3: June – July 2016 Applications Open: 9.00am Monday 13 July 2015 Applications Close: 11.59pm Sunday 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: 7 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 10 International students considered: No LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

ABOUT US

DLA Piper is a global law firm with 4,200 lawyers located in more than 30 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

We are a law firm with momentum. Over the past decade, DLA Piper has undergone rapid expansion, responding to global markets and helping our clients deliver on their business strategies. In doing so, we are uniquely placed to provide our people with the global career opportunities they are looking for.

In Australia we are trusted legal advisors to approximately a third of the ASX 100 companies and all levels of government.

We have offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra.

OUR VALUES

At its heart, DLA Piper is an entrepreneurial and dynamic firm. We have a supportive and performancebased culture founded on the diversity of our people, the communities we operate in and the clients we work with.

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through the global DLA Piper network – giving them opportunities to work on multi-jurisdictional, international matters with quality clients and colleagues around the world.

For our graduates we offer the opportunity to apply for a six month rotation to one of our Asian offices. We believe our approach to secondments fosters a global mindset and is critical to our success.

PRACTICE AREAS

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Corporate Employment Finance & Projects Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation & Regulatory Real Estate Restructuring Tax

What we look for

We are looking for highly talented people who can demonstrate an affinity with our values to help us achieve our vision. Our lawyers don’t just focus on being experts on technical knowledge – a DLA Piper lawyer has a commercial mindset, because our clients are at the core of our business.

Our applicants are intellectually bright people who have demonstrated strong academics, but are also people with rounded personalities – who realise it’s not just about the academics, but a whole range of extracurricular activities, where they have broadened their horizons and thought about wider aspects of life.

Our lawyers don’t just focus on being experts on technical knowledge – a DLA Piper lawyer has a commercial mindset, because our clients are at the core of our business.

We provide cutting-edge learning and development programs, and an opportunity to work alongside some of the best legal minds in the industry.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

www.dlapipergraduates.com.au – A dedicated student resource that features information about the firm and our graduate and seasonal clerkship programs, office photos, an events page with key recruitment dates, an online application form, and blogs from our graduates and seasonal clerks.

Your Opportunities

We provide cutting-edge learning and development programs, and an opportunity to work alongside some of the best legal minds in the industry.

As a seasonal clerk, you can expect to have a varied experience both in and outside the office. You will work in a creative and dynamic environment, gaining first-hand experience in the practice of law by doing real legal work.

Joining us as a seasonal clerk is your path to a graduate position. At DLA Piper we recruit to retain and once you qualify, we will continue to offer you exceptional career opportunities, in an environment that is challenging, rewarding and, we believe, truly different from our competitors.

Global Opportunities

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What It Means To Work For A Global Law Firm: An Insider’s Perspective Nicholas Kefalianos – Solicitor, Corporate

I am a solicitor in the Melbourne corporate team at DLA Piper Australia, and have been at the firm for four years. During my time, I have seen the exciting expansion of law firms, including DLA Piper, on a global scale. I have also experienced first-hand the fantastic opportunities that working for a global law firm entails, having just returned from a secondment at DLA Piper’s London office. For those considering a career at a global law firm, the following will provide some insight into what it means to work for an international corporate practice.

Clients without Borders

Being an Australian lawyer does not purely involve advising Australian clients on Australian legal issues.

The role of a corporate lawyer has grown to being a trusted adviser, which requires a thorough understanding of a company’s global operations. An issue in respect of the client’s Australian operations can rapidly become a global issue for the client, and therefore an understanding of the client’s local and international activities is imperative. Coordinating with the client, as well as colleagues who serve the client internationally, is imperative to developing such an understanding. The vast majority of the transactions I work on largely involve a coordinated approach with the other offices in Australia and across the globe in order to provide a unified, holistic response to the client’s issues.

My role has also grown to require a rudimentary understanding of the basic themes and trends in the law of other jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and the United States. For example, the approach in the United States to qualifying warranties in a business or share sale agreement is quite different to that in Australia, an issue that must be explored and discussed with clients from the United States.

Team without Borders

The concept of a ‘team’ at a global law firm is somewhat blurred. While I am part of the Melbourne corporate team, it would be more accurate to say that I am part of the Australian corporate team, with resources readily shared between the various offices in Australia, and I regularly find myself working alongside colleagues in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth

on transactions. That said, even this classification is arguably misleading. While working in Australia and the United Kingdom, developing contacts in other international offices comes naturally, and I can now proudly state that I can readily pick up the phone or email colleagues in Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Realistically, I am part of a global corporate team that works together to provide a single offering.

While many students finishing university almost expect to find themselves working overseas in the short term, such an experience had not previously crossed my mind. However, joining a global law firm has provided me with career opportunities well beyond what I imagined my career would involve.

Career without Borders

Being an Australian qualified solicitor that had graduated from the University of Melbourne, I commenced my career viewing myself as purely an Australian lawyer. While many students finishing university almost expect to find themselves working overseas in the short term, such an experience had not previously crossed my mind. However, joining a global law firm has provided me with career opportunities well beyond what I imagined my career would involve. These opportunities range from local pro bono opportunities, cross-border transactions and global secondments. Working for a global law firm may not be the career choice for all, however with an openmind and a thirst for experience, a global law firm can provide young solicitors with career opportunities beyond expectations.

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Level 11, Rialto South Tower, 525 Collins Street, Melborune VIC 3000 P: +61 3 9603 3555 W: www.hallandwilcox.com.au HR Contact Trudi Galbraith, HR Advisor E: trudi.galbraith@hallandwilcox.com.au Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship cvMail

Hall & Wilcox

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship cvMail

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 16–20 Intake 1: 8–10 Intake 2: 8–10 Key Dates Intake 1: Winter TBC Intake 2: Summer TBC Applications Open: Monday 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: Tuesday 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 6–8 International students considered: Yes LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About Us

Hall & Wilcox is a leading independent business law firm, which is commercial in its approach, sustains great relationships with its clients, and provides excellent service and advice, every time.

Since establishment nearly 100 years ago, Hall & Wilcox have remained independent, growing strategically and responsively to client demand. Today, we have more than 300 people, including 43 partners, offering depth and breadth of expertise and experience across most areas of commercial practice in Melbourne and Sydney.

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• employment • environment and sustainability • financial services • insurance • intellectual property • private clients • property • planning and construction • superannuation • taxation • technology What distinguishes Hall & Wilcox from other firms?

We are consistently told by our people that our strong collegial and friendly culture is what differentiates Hall & Wilcox as an employer. Our culture is valuesdriven, friendly and open and this is recognised by our partners, our staff, and our clients.

Despite our growth, we have successfully maintained our ‘family atmosphere’ and a culture which embraces genuine respect amongst our people. The firm has a demonstrated ability to attract and retain high quality people and the key reasons we are able to do this are because of the quality of the work we do, the clients we have, the career progression and development opportunities we offer, and the positive environment and atmosphere of the firm.

Another point of differentiation for aspiring lawyers is our Traineeship program. Graduate Lawyers at Hall & Wilcox undertake Supervised Workplace Training as opposed to Practical Legal Training (PLT). We strongly believe that offering our Graduate Lawyers extensive on-the-job training through the completion of Supervised Workplace Training will equip them with the necessary skills, firm knowledge and practical experience to succeed in their legal career. We also offer Graduate Lawyers the opportunity to rotate through several practice areas of the firm. This allows our Graduate Lawyers to make an informed decision about which practice area they would like to specialise in after the completion of their Traineeship.

What is the firm’s approach to corporate social responsibility and pro bono work?

At Hall & Wilcox, we strive to have a positive impact on the environment, community, our staff, and the clients we act for. We are committed to corporate social responsibility and take ownership for the impact our business activities have on the environment. These values underline everything we do as a firm and are reflected in the Hall & Wilcox Pro Bono & Community Investment Program.

We are proud of our engagement with community based not-for-profit groups and charities and our pro bono practice. Hall & Wilcox’s pro bono and community activities include involvement with Justice Connect, the Queen Elizabeth Centre, Scarf, Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre and we are an active member of the Australian Business and Community Network.

We have also fostered close, on-going relationships with a number of inspirational community organisations to whom we provide pro bono legal services and other assistance. These include; YGAP – Y Generation Against Poverty, Step Back Think, Open Family Australia, Guide Dogs Victoria, Prince Henry’s Institute, and Australian Huntington’s Disease Association.

Overall we are proud of our engagement with community based not-for-profit groups and charities and our pro bono practice. We recognise and embrace the community responsibilities that come with being members of the legal profession and a successful and respected firm. For our people, our involvement in the community in a meaningful way is personally and professionally enriching.

Our culture is values driven, friendly and open and this is recognised by our partners, our staff and our clients.

Seasonal clerkships

We offer 16–20 clerkship positions annually, split between our two seasonal programs.

We look for well-rounded applicants, with strong academic results and interests outside of university and work. Applicants with languages and/ or commercial/business experience will be highly regarded.

What is the application and interview process?

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a first round interview and will meet with representatives from the firm, including Partners, junior lawyers and HR. We also hold a Q&A Session following interviews.

From this stage, successful candidates will be notified of their offer when clerkship offers can be made.

Your clerkship at Hall & Wilcox

On commencement, seasonal clerks participate in an induction program which provides an understanding of the firm’s structure, the work we do, our clients,

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and basic training in IT systems and office procedures.

All aspects of the induction enable seasonal clerks to successfully complete their clerkship at the firm. Following the induction seasonal clerks are placed into one of our practice areas (taking into account their preferences). Within the practice area, seasonal clerks will be allocated a mentor and a buddy for guidance and support throughout their time with firm.

opportunity to attend various Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions to further enhance their skills. These personal and professional development initiatives are designed to help Graduate Lawyers progress quickly and make a smooth transition into their legal career.

The Hall & Wilcox Supervised Workplace Training Graduate Lawyer Program

Hall & Wilcox will offer 6–8 Traineeship positions.

Throughout the Traineeship, our Graduate Lawyers gain experience in many of the firm’s practice areas through our 4 rotations, each of 3 months duration.

Does the firm offer deferment of a graduate offer?

…our Graduate Lawyers gain extensive on-the-job training that will equip them with the necessary skills, firm knowledge and practical experience. Graduate Lawyers are given the opportunity to work with people across the firm at all levels, and this provides them with a solid foundation for their legal career.

The benefit of our rotational system is that by the end of the Traineeship, Graduate Lawyers can make an informed decision about which practice area they might like to practise. We feel that by offering Supervised Workplace Training (SWT), our Graduate Lawyers gain extensive on-the-job training that will equip them with the necessary skills, firm knowledge and practical experience.

Graduate Lawyers are given the opportunity to work with people across the firm at all levels, and this provides them with a solid foundation for their legal career. As part of a Graduate Lawyer’s development it is essential to receive regular and ongoing feedback and at Hall & Wilcox, Graduate Lawyers receive ongoing feedback during each rotation as well as formal feedback at the end of each rotation.

In addition to on-the-job learning, Graduate Lawyers will benefit from our Graduate Lawyer Development Program which involves weekly training sessions which provides an opportunity to meet senior lawyers of the firm and hear about their area of law and how they progressed to a senior role within the firm. Graduate Lawyers are also afforded the

How many graduates does the firm typically take?

No, Hall & Wilcox does not offer deferment of a graduate offer. However, applicants can re-apply the following year if they wish to be re-considered for a graduate position.

What is the firm’s approach to the continuing education of its employees?

Continuing education is very important at Hall & Wilcox. Learning and development comprises different forms, such as attendance at technical seminars and workshops, post-graduate courses and regular in-house training. Partners and staff at Hall & Wilcox are encouraged to share their knowledge by regularly presenting on new developments in their area or cases of interest. We also demonstrate our ongoing support and commitment by providing financial support and study leave for approved external courses.

What other opportunities and experiences does the firm offer its graduates?

As a Melbourne-headquartered law firm, with an office in Sydney, Hall & Wilcox primarily acts on matters and transactions for Victorian and New South Wales headquartered clients. However, this does not limit the firm’s ability to service clients nationally and internationally. We also have strong links with highly respected firms nationally and a long history of working with these firms on interstate matters and transactions.

We believe secondments are a thoroughly rewarding and enriching experience for our lawyers.

When the opportunity arises, we offer junior and senior lawyers the opportunity to go on secondment both internationally and within Australia.

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Considering a Career in Insolvency and Restructuring? What You Need to Know Natasha Toholka – Special Counsel, Hall & Wilcox

Are you considering a career in insolvency and restructuring?

If you are looking for a career which combines both front and back end work, which is technically challenging and can lead to rewarding client relationships, then this is the field for you.

An insolvency and restructuring practice can incorporate the following: • personal insolvency (e.g. bankruptcy, personal insolvency agreements etc); • corporate insolvency (e.g. voluntary administrations, liquidations, receiverships); • restructuring (without a formal insolvency appointment).

Clients include insolvency practitioners (who are generally registered or Official liquidators/bankruptcy trustees), secured creditors (e.g. financial institutions), unsecured creditors and debtors.

Just like other areas of law, firms generally split along creditor and debtor practices, although there can be cross-over.

Insolvency practices are generally countercyclical, that is, when the economy is booming, work can slow in the insolvency profession. However, when the economy turns, insolvency practices come into their own.

Prominent insolvencies in the last few years include managed investment schemes (e.g. Timbercorp, Gunns), mining services and engineering firms (e.g. Hastie) and construction firms (e.g. St Hilliers).

Working in insolvency means that you see a wide range of fact situations and gain exposure to a large number of industries. No two files are the same.

There can be cross-border insolvency issues and interaction with foreign insolvency practitioners.

There is often a substantial element of problem solving involved and there are still many unresolved legal issues which require testing via the courts. Recent High Court of Australia decisions in this field include: Fortress Credit Corporation (Australia) II Pty Ltd v Fletcher [2015] HCA 10 (orders under s 588FF(3) of the Corporations Act 2001 to extend the time within which a company’s liquidator may apply for orders in relation to voidable transactions), and Korda v Australian Executor Trustees (SA) Limited [2015] HCA 6

(intention to create a trust, with impacts on secured versus unsecured creditors).

Insolvency and restructuring law at its best is technical, challenging and interesting. A successful career requires planning and commitment to further study. However, do not be put off if you don’t have an accounting or business degree. There are many Masters level subjects offered by various universities, and I highly recommend the Insolvency Education Program (IEP) run by the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA). The IEP comprises two Masters level subjects in personal and corporate insolvency and successful completion of the IEP is a prerequisite for ARITA membership. Workshops are held during semester with the opportunity to network at these with your insolvency peers. ARITA represents the majority of insolvency practitioners in Australia and membership provides valuable networking and continuing professional development opportunities for those in the industry. Check out the ARITA website for useful information regarding the insolvency profession, case updates and fact sheets for stakeholders at: www.arita.com.au Another industry body to check out is the Turnaround Management Association: www.turnaround.org.au Other useful web resources include: ASIC (corporate insolvency - www.asic.gov.au) and the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) (personal insolvency – www.afsa.gov.au).

Taking the time to speak to a practitioner in the field if you are interested in pursuing this area makes a lot of sense, as does securing work experience in an insolvency/restructuring department (whether at a law firm, or for those with commerce/business degrees – in an accounting/business advisory practice with an insolvency/restructuring group).

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Level 42, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9288 1937 W: www.herbertsmithfreehills.com.au HR Contact Hong Le, Graduate Recruitment Consultant Carla Ragonesi, Graduate Recruitment Manager E: graduates.melbourne@hsf.com Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship herbertsmithfreehills.com/careers/australia/graduates

Herbert Smith Freehills Be an Exceptional Lawyer

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship herbertsmithfreehills.com/careers/australia/graduates

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 60–70 Intake 1: Approximately 20 Intake 2: Approximately 20 Intake 3: Approximately 20 Key Dates Intake 1: 26 November 2015 – 18 December 2015 Intake 2: 4–26 February 2016 Intake 3: 30 June 2016 – 22 July 2016 Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: August – October 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: Please note that most of our graduate positions are filled through our clerkship programme.

Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: TBC International students considered: Yes LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About us

Operating from over 20 offices across Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, the UK and the US, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, fullservice legal advice. We provide many of the world’s most important organisations with access to marketleading dispute resolution, projects and transactional legal advice, combined with expertise in a number of global industry sectors, including energy, natural resources, infrastructure and financial services. We aim to bring a new perspective to our clients’ businesses, working with them to identify opportunity and manage risk in an uncertain marketplace.

We understand becoming an exceptional lawyer goes beyond technical ability and that at its heart, the business of law is based on human relationships.

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clients, understand their perspectives, and develop your ability to deliver insightful and commercially astute advice.

Our success depends on the expertise, knowledge and unique perspectives of all our people. That’s why we have always placed such a high value on diversity. It’s also why we encourage you to explore different areas of law and decide how to shape your career. We will invest heavily in your development; through formal training, pro bono opportunities and the chance to work with inspiring people who are leaders in their fields. We will help you grow personally and professionally, in an environment where you can be your best.

Wherever you go in the firm, we’re confident you’ll be working with people who share the values we have worked together to define: a commitment to excellence, a collaborative approach, a desire to lead, and a focus on creating strong connections with colleagues and clients. Visit our website to meet some of our people and see what we mean herbertsmithfreehills.com/careers/our-careers-film.

Clerkship programme

Finding the right fit for you is key to deciding where to start your legal career. Since working together is a good way to get to know each other, we offer a range of summer and winter clerkships in each of our Australian offices. We encourage students to participate in our vacation clerkship programme and we fill the majority of our graduate positions through this programme.

Spend part of your vacation with us and you’ll get a great understanding of how we go about meeting the needs of our clients. The programme includes a detailed introduction to the firm and to each practice group, as well as the opportunity to work with our legal teams on real matters.

We invite approximately 60–70 penultimate year law students to spend part of their summer or winter vacation with us as a vacation clerk. We run three programs annually – one in winter and two in summer. All clerkships run for three and a half weeks.

We also run a number of graduate and clerkship programmes in our overseas offices. To find out more visit our graduate careers website.

Graduate programme

Our structured graduate programme is designed to provide the best foundation for your future success, wherever your career takes you.

Graduates will have three rotations in different practice groups. During each rotation, graduates are assigned a supervising partner and buddy.

A learning and development programme also

supports the on-the-job learning to help you to develop your leadership, business development, negotiation and presentation skills. Training takes place during working hours and is delivered by internal experts as well as specialist providers and leading commentators.

Herbert Smith Freehills funds and assists graduates at the firm who need to complete practical legal training to gain admission to practice.

We also run a number of graduate and clerkship programmes in our overseas offices. To find out more visit our graduate careers website.

Please note that most of our graduate positions are filled through our vacation clerkship programme.

A learning and development programme also supports the on-the-job learning to help you to develop your leadership, business development, negotiation and presentation skills.

International Graduate Secondment Programme

Our international network means that we can offer opportunities and experiences that are unrivalled in scope. In 2014 we launched our international secondment programme for Australian graduates. To hear about Ben and Mia’s experiences on international secondment go to our website: herbertsmithfreehills. com/careers/meet-our-people Who are we looking for?

We are interested in who you are and the strengths you can bring. We recruit employees from a wide range of backgrounds who possess the qualities we look for in our lawyers, such as intellectual curiosity, confidence, clarity of thought, a sense of the bigger picture, the ambition to grow personally and professionally, and the ability to develop exceptional working relationships with clients and colleagues. We look for students who want to pursue a career in commercial law, who have a sense of the bigger picture, and who demonstrate a commercial awareness.

We are interested in your academic record as well as evidence of strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work effectively in a team, and ability to balance study with work or other activities throughout your degree.

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our website: herbertsmithfreehills.com/careers/australia/graduates/applications/what-we-look-for.

What Distinguishes Us? Celebrating Diversity

It can be easy to say, harder to do. But we believe allowing people to perform to the best of their abilities requires a culture of openness and authenticity, one that allows each of us to be ourselves. And we work hard to create such a culture.

One of our six firm wide strategic objectives is to foster a high performance, diverse and inclusive workplace.

In Australia, we have focussed on our efforts to be more inclusive and our first priority was to run inclusive leadership sessions for the entire partnership so that we could each understand why diversity and inclusion is a business imperative for our firm.

A major step for Herbert Smith Freehills was the announcement of the gender targets for women in the partnership and in leadership positions. These targets are not an end in themselves. The real work that the targets are intended to do is to encourage substantial interventions to ensure that we have a full and robust pipeline of women.

To do this we have introduced sponsorship for our new partners (men and women) and potential partner candidates. We have also introduced a ‘gender wash’ over our business development processes to ensure that we have a sufficient representation of women in our client facing roles and activities.

Accountability for leadership is critical to fostering greater diversity and inclusion and so we have developed a diversity & inclusion KPI that we will assess our executive group against. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has noted that we are one of only four law firms in Australia to have done this.

To affirm our commitment to gender equity in our workplace and to share with our people what we do to achieve that, we developed our Gender Equity Policy.

since its inception has been our consistently high calibre events. We’ve had soldiers, rugby players, politicians and cabaret stars feature at network events.

Our network has also been very active in fostering LGBTI inclusion in our workplace. Members of our network were inspired to develop a set of gender transitioning guidelines to help any of our people who may be considering their own transition. Those guidelines were adopted in October and are a tangible way of demonstrating our commitment to LGBTI inclusion in our firm.

Most significantly, we were named Pride in Diversity’s Australian Workplace Equality Index’s

It can be easy to say, harder to do.

But we believe allowing people to perform to the best of their abilities requires a culture of openness and authenticity, one that allows each of us to be ourselves. And we work hard to create such a culture.

(AWEI) most inclusive law firm in Australia and the 12th most inclusive organisation overall. This is a fantastic accolade which assesses our policies, processes and structures in terms of workplace inclusion for LGBTI employees and benchmarks us against its other member organisations.

LGBTI Diversity

In March 2014 we celebrated the first anniversary of our Australian LGBTI Network and were thrilled that by the end of our first year, we had about 280 members.

The work of our network is guided by a Charter that we developed collaboratively following our launch. The Charter identifies four focus areas: fostering an LGBTI inclusive workplace, celebrating LGBTI inclusion, promoting our LGBTI network beyond the firm and connecting with the broader LGBTI community.

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Employment, Pensions and Incentives Starr Brenton – Graduate

I am one of the exceptions to the rule who knew I wanted to be a lawyer from a young age. Consistent with this, I commenced a law/arts degree in 2007 at Deakin University. Throughout my studies, I got involved in the Law Society, on the Academic Board and volunteered at various legal organisations (for example, the Darebin Community Legal Centre and Victoria Legal Aid). I also worked as a paralegal and did a number of internships.

I undertook the clerkship process in 2013.

I was fortunate enough to undertake clerkships at King & Wood Mallesons, Allens, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Herbert Smith Freehills. Whilst all of my clerkships were positive, Herbert Smith Freehills stood out as the place that was right for me.

After spending six months completing a management consulting internship, I commenced as a graduate at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) in September 2014.

Work/life balance is like globalisation – ubiquitous use has denuded the concept of its power, notwithstanding that it is such an important concept.

Prior to commencing at HSF, I thought that achieving work/life balance was about working at a firm that values external activities and a well-rounded person. While that is accurate to an extent and definitely something that I believe is true of HSF, I have also come to realise that work/life balance is something that individuals need to proactively take control of.

It is not enough to be a passive recipient of a good firm culture; I think one must also take personal responsibility to design a life in accordance with your priorities. As part of this, I am fortunate to be surrounded by colleagues who are teaching me legal excellence but in a context of maintaining a healthy perspective – work is what you do, so you want to do it well, but it is not who you are. I think genuinely understanding this is what helps one achieve work/life balance.

My experience rotating through Disputes and Employment, Pensions and Incentives is that although the teams are very different, there are certain qualities that are consistent. First, everyone displays a remarkable patience and friendliness. I have not met one person at HSF that I am too scared to approach. Second, people are normal. At first this might sound strange but I remember clerking and thinking that these impressive lawyers are so smart and sophisticated that I better not start a conversation about last night’s Homeland episode. Nothing could

be further from the truth – being curious and engaged doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy the footy, TV or even trashy magazines. In fact, my experience has been quite the opposite.

Having said that, there are noticeable differences between the groups. Learning to assess the person, partner or colleague is a valuable tool.

One of the great things about working at HSF is the diversity of work that I am exposed to. A typical day might involve assisting on a brief to counsel, attending court, researching case law or legislation, attending meetings or writing articles. Sometimes I will have an hour to do a task, sometimes a week.

As a graduate, the focus is on your learning so there is also lots of really interesting training – the firm really invests in your development.

It goes without saying that I have learnt a lot about the law, procedure and time management.

However, the most valuable thing that I have learnt is not to sweat the small stuff, that everyone makes mistakes and that there is nothing more powerful than being resilient – to criticism, to timeframes and to new ideas.

On a collective level, Employment, Pensions and Incentives face tight time frames, insecure workflows and difficult roadblocks in achieving what the client wants. From an individual level, managing expectations is an ongoing challenge for most members of the team. Confidence and consistent communication are the key skills in combating this.

Resilience and communication. My view is that these two skills are the whole ball game. Most things can be taught but what is more difficult to teach, is emotional intelligence. When I was at law school, I focussed on my grades and thought that the intangibles were less important. I think that thoughtful investment in the intangibles would have given me a stronger foundation coming in.

Never be afraid to ask questions or admit you don’t know. Be curious, be honest, be yourself.

Everybody actually wants you to do well.

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My Experience in Projects at Herbert Smith Freehills Lauren Davis – Solicitor, Finance, Real Estate & Projects Melbourne

As a solicitor in the Projects team in Herbert Smith Freehills’ Finance Real Estate and Projects Group, I have the opportunity to advise both Australian and international companies on a range of commercial issues, including project delivery, negotiated acquisitions and legal due diligence.

The Project Delivery team that I work with has a focus on Public Private Partnership Projects and negotiated secondary asset acquisitions. The projects are large, move quickly and can get quite heated, especially with the adrenaline rush that comes from eleventh hour negotiations.

Shortly after rotating into Projects, I was involved with the then-largest asset acquisition to move through our team, which was the acquisition of the long term leases of Port Botany and Port Kembla from the New South Wales Government by a consortium of private investors (valued at approximately $5.07 billion). The scale of the project meant that the graduates and junior solicitors in our team got great exposure to the various players in the industry (and also a lavish closing dinner).

Whilst my partner assures me that the novelty wears off, being flown interstate to close a deal made me feel like I was in an episode of Suits.

On a more personal level, the Projects team in Melbourne is extremely relaxed, close-knit and social, meaning that even client networking can take place whilst playing lawn-bowls or sitting at an Arctic Monkeys concert.

Lauren graduated from Deakin University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts. Lauren joined Herbert Smith Freehills in March 2012 and was admitted to practice in November 2012 after completing her Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice with the College of Law. Lauren completed three 6 month rotations in Employee Relations, Disputes and Finance, Real Estate and Projects before permanently placing in the Projects team.

The projects are large, move quickly and can get quite heated, especially with the adrenaline rush that comes from eleventh hour negotiations.

Transactions such as privatisations deliver proceeds to the State Government which can be invested in new State infrastructure projects, most (if not all) of which the Projects team at Herbert Smith Freehills will likely be involved with. These kinds of deals have given me a great insight into public versus private commercial drivers – which can evolve based on the political scene at the time.

A particular highlight of my time in the group has been the opportunity to work on projects across various State jurisdictions (including travelling to Queensland and New South Wales and working closely with a client in the Northern Territory).

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Level 25, 525 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9205 2000 W: www.klgates.com HR Contact Carla Di Vincenzo, Human Resources Specialist E: carla.divincenzo@klgates.com Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship cvMail Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship

K&L Gates

Graduates are recruited directly from our Seasonal Clerkship program

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 15–20 Intake 1: 10 Intake 2: 10 Key Dates Intake 1: 1–26 February 2016 Intake 2: 27 June – 22 July 2016 Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: August – September 2015 Offers Released: Tuesday 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No International students considered: No LIV Signatory: No Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About Us

K&L Gates is a commercial law firm operating at the intersection of globalisation, innovation, and regulation to deliver legal solutions for clients facing an increasingly complex global marketplace. K&L Gates have more than 2000 lawyers in offices across five continents. Within Australia, K&L Gates has 300 lawyers located in four offices: Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. K&L Gates practices law on an integrated basis and has the largest integrated network of offices of any global law firm.

With a presence in Australia’s leading financial and commercial centres, K&L Gates represents leading global corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals.

We are leading legal advisors relating to industries critical to the economies of both the developed and developing worlds – technology, manufacturing, energy, transportation, telecommunications, financial services, and life sciences, among others.

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With the extraordinary inbound investment into Australia from the Asia Pacific region, especially from China, and four of Australia’s five largest trading partners – China, Japan, Korea, and India – located in the region, the firm has the resources on the ground to handle the most sophisticated legal requirements.

Over each of the last five years our revenues exceeded $1 Billion.

We are leading legal advisors relating to industries critical to the economies of both the developed and developing worlds.

Practice Areas

• Corporate and Transactional • Litigation and Dispute Resolution • Intellectual Property • Finance • Financial Services • Real Estate • Labour, Employment and Workplace Safety • Policy and Regulatory • Energy, Infrastructure and Resources Firm Values

The values of K&L Gates are centred around four core areas.

Client Focused

We provide the highest level of service to our clients as industry experts and seek out proactive ways to anticipate their needs and add value to their businesses.

Transparent

We strongly believe in maintaining an open and authentic culture, internally and externally. It helps us build long lasting relationships with out clients based on mutual trust and respect.

Innovative

We are at the forefront of the issues affecting our clients and are focused on providing ground-breaking, value-driven solutions to enhance their businesses.

Integrated

We are one global network, truly integrated and unified, allowing us to provide seamless service to our clients, regardless of their location.

Most importantly, we strive to cultivate an environment that celebrates talented legal professionals.

Employee benefits

K&L Gates is strongly committed to our lawyers’ professional development. Partners throughout the firm, together with our professional development team, work to create an extensive range of formal and informal professional development opportunities for lawyers in all of our offices.

K&L Gates is a highly collaborative, inclusive and social workplace where we take interest in you as a person, not just an employee. You will be offered the chance to join our social club, participate in one of our sporting teams and take part in our pro-bono community programs. Regular Friday night drinks provide the opportunity to socialise with your colleagues and others outside of your wider practice area. In addition to this, we fully support flexible working and offer other wellbeing initiatives to ensure our staff have a good working life balance. K&L Gates is committed to diversity, including championing working parents and developing our senior female leaders through our Diversity and Women in the Profession committees.

In 2014 K&L Gates was one of only 76 Australian organisations to receive the citation for Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

We believe in hiring individuals who will become a part of our collaborative, committed and diverse team. Solid academic results are important but to be a successful lawyer you need to demonstrate talent and skill in a variety of areas.

Pro Bono Work

K&L Gates handles hundreds of pro bono matters a year. Among other things, firm lawyers litigate civil rights cases, establish and advise non-profit organisations, assist such organisations in transactions and represent indigent persons in consumer, landlord-tenant, and immigration matters. We directly aid individuals who have limited means but substantial legal needs. We also provide legal counsel and public policy advocacy to help organizations advance their public service programs, and we accept court appointments to provide pro bono counsel in both civil and criminal matters.

Each lawyer has a minimum number of pro bono hours they must achieve each year and you

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may be instructed in pro bono matters during your clerkship. This will be dependent on the nature of the work that is available in the practice area at the time of your clerkship.

Every year K&L Gates participates in a Global Day of Service, which takes place across all of our offices and is an opportunity for all staff to make a positive impact in their local communities. In recognition of this initiative K&L Gates was awarded the ‘Global Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of the Year’ in 2013 in the American Lawyer’s Global Legal Awards.

During your clerkship at K&L Gates, you will benefit from being involved in real legal work.This will include participating in client meetings, attending court, researching and drafting advice to support one or more of our practice areas.

weekly. It combines Practical Legal Training (delivered in-house by the College of Law) with sessions presented by partners, lawyers, external presenters and our professional development team.

Graduates are sourced from our previous clerks. Each request for a clerkship deferral is considered on a case by case basis. You cannot defer to complete your university studies.

What we look for in a Seasonal Clerk

We believe in hiring individuals who will become a part of our collaborative, committed and diverse team.

Solid academic results are important but to be a successful lawyer you need to demonstrate talent and skill in a variety of areas. In your application to us you will demonstrate commerciality, logic and attention to detail as well as enthusiasm for delivering exceptional client service.

To be successful at K&L Gates you will have:

Seasonal Clerkship program

During your clerkship at K&L Gates, you will benefit from being involved in real legal work. This will include participating in client meetings, attending court, researching and drafting advice to support one or more of our practice areas.

You will participate in a comprehensive induction program that continues throughout your clerkship to learn important skills to lay the foundations for a successful legal career. You will work closely with partners, senior associates and have the support of a junior lawyer or graduate lawyer as a buddy.

There are also a number of social and sporting activities that are organised to help you to network with others across the firm and most of all, have fun!

Graduate program

K&L Gates graduate program involves rotations through three practice groups. You will be exposed to a variety of areas of commercial law in all rotations.

The program is designed to give you the technical expertise and commercial context to succeed.

Throughout the year you are supported with a buddy, supervisor and mentor. Partners and senior lawyers will support and guide you through each rotation and support your career development. Your buddy, a junior lawyer, will help you transition into your new role.

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• Leadership experience: You’re a self-starter committed to personal and professional development. And you’ve demonstrated initiative, tenacity and potential.

• Curiosity: You’re a strategic thinker who solves problems creatively.

• Maturity: You possess sound judgment and have excellent people skills. You’re confident and professional.

• Passion: You must be dynamic, enthusiastic and excited about our firm.

• First class communication skills: You possess the ability to speak and write clearly and intelligently.

• Attributes of a team player: You’re approachable and enjoy participating in group activities. You’re a good listener. And you’re always willing to share thoughts and ideas.

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Corporate / M&A Jenna Valkenburg – Lawyer

I commenced my double degree in Aerospace Engineering and Law in 2007 at Monash University. My goal at the commencement of my studies was to become an aerospace engineer and work overseas in this field. However, after gaining work experience in both the legal and engineering fields, I realised that while I enjoyed studying both of these degrees equally, I found legal practice to be far more challenging and intellectually rewarding, and so decided to pursue a career in law.

While being a lawyer is a rewarding career, it can be challenging.

Work/life balance can be difficult to manage, particularly as a graduate when you’re so aware of the need to prove yourself and develop your reputation within the firm.

After completing a seasonal clerkship with Middletons in 2012, I joined the firm (now rebranded as K&L Gates following its merger) as a Graduate in 2014. On my first day in the office, I was excited and ambitious but also quite nervous. I commenced the year very certain of my goal to become a litigation lawyer and luckily for me, this was my first rotation.

When I learned of my second rotation being in corporate/M&A, I was quite anxious as I did not have any desire to pursue this field. However, I loved it and knew it was the right fit for me going forward. I loved the highly technical, meticulous and complex aspects of corporate law and felt that it enabled me to ‘engineer with words’, satisfying the inner engineer in me.

While being a lawyer is a rewarding career, it can be challenging. Work/life balance can be difficult to manage, particularly as a graduate when you’re so aware of the need to prove yourself and develop your reputation within the firm. It seems obvious, but I have found that maintaining interests and activities outside of work actually fosters a more positive, resilient and determined attitude while at work, enabling me to think more clearly and be more efficient with my time.

As a corporate/M&A lawyer, each day can be different and can involve drafting asset or share sale agreements, carrying out due diligence reviews, drafting supply and distribution agreements, drafting sponsorship agreements or giving advice on corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Being involved in a corporate practice group involves a lot of client contact and development of client relationships.

I have learned that it is important to be yourself in the workplace (and during the recruitment process) and feel comfortable with asking questions.

Asking questions demonstrates that you’ve thought about the subject and developed an insightful question as a result. One of the most valuable skills for a lawyer is to have an inquiring mind and willingness to learn, which requires you to recognise ‘what you don’t know’. My advice to law students is to have a go at everything whether it be drafting a letter, scanning or proof reading a document, each task enables you to gain more knowledge and experience. And while they might seem tedious at the time, with the benefit of hindsight I can now reflect on these tasks and appreciate the role each has played in shaping the lawyer I am today.

As a corporate/M&A lawyer, each day can be different and can involve drafting asset or share sale agreements, carrying out due diligence reviews, drafting supply and distribution agreements, drafting sponsorship agreements or giving advice on corporate governance and regulatory compliance.

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Technology, Media and Outsourcing John Hall – Lawyer

The K&L Gates Technology, Media and Outsourcing group is a specialist technology group within K&L Gates’ broader Corporate and Transactional practice.

The Technology, Media and Outsourcing group focuses on Australian and international technology, outsourcing and commercial IP related issues. We act for clients ranging from start up technology companies through to major Australian and multinational organisations in a broad range of industries including IT, energy and resources, media and telecommunications. The Australian Technology, Media and Outsourcing group works with lawyers across the K&L Gates global platform, which has 48 offices in Australia, the USA, the UK, Asia, Europe and South America.

We assist our clients within a constantly changing, fast paced environment and our matters feature a mix of advisory and transactional work. The types of work undertaken by the Technology, Media and Outsourcing group include: a. advising in relation to cross border technology issues; b. structuring and negotiating large, complex technology projects and transactions; c. assisting clients to manage commercial risks, including in relation to data security and privacy; d. assisting large rights holders to negotiate content licences and broadcasting deals; and e. licensing and commercialisation of IP. The Technology, Media and Outsourcing group is a hands on team and junior members will be given contact with clients and responsibility for matters early in their careers. Even as a seasonal clerk or graduate, you will be given exposure to a wide range of opportunities, such as: a. reviewing and drafting agreements, including agreements for the procurement of technology, associated support services or the licensing of IP; b. assisting with the preparation of and attending presentations for clients in relation to technology issues affecting their businesses; c. attending internal and external client meetings; d. conducting research on the latest developments across a range of areas of law such as IP, privacy, technology and general

contract law and preparing research memos for more senior lawyers and partners; e. contributing to the preparation of advice to clients; f. drafting ‘Legal Insights’ for clients and publication to the firm’s website; and g. interacting with our litigation teams regarding contractual disputes.

To prepare yourself to undertake a graduate rotation or seasonal clerk placement in the Technology, Media and Outsourcing group, you should focus on core subjects at university such as contract law, corporations law, consumer law and intellectual property law. It would also assist if you have completed a relevant course at university that relates to technology, media or communications law.

The Technology, Media and Outsourcing group is a hands on team and junior members will be given contact with clients and responsibility for matters early in their careers. Even as a seasonal clerk or graduate, you will be given exposure to a wide range of opportunities,…

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Level 50, Bourke Pl, 600 Bourke St, Melbourne, VIC ,3000 P: 03 9643 4000 W: www.kwm.com HR Contact Sianead Kenneally, Graduate Resourcing Consultant E: sianead.kenneally@au.kwm.com P: 03 9643 5547 Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship Submit application via our website www.kwm.com/careers

King & Wood Mallesons The Power of Together

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship Submit application via our website www.kwm.com/careers

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 60–70 Intake 1: 20–25 Intake 2: 20–25 Intake 3: 20–25 Key Dates Intake 1: 26 November – 18 December 2015 Intake 2: 21 January – 12 February 2016 Intake 3: July 2016 (exact dates to be confirmed) Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: 7 September – 25 September 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: TBA Applications Open: 20 July 2015 Applications Close: 23 August 2015 Offers Released: 28 September 2015 Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: TBA International students considered: Students require appropriate VISA LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About us

The combination of King & Wood Mallesons and SJ Berwin in November 2013 cemented our position as the first and only international law firm headquartered in Asia. We’re also a global top 25 law firm by revenue.

Our ability to connect Asia to the world and the world to Asia, is our key differentiator. Through local connections and deep understanding of the region’s culture we are focussed on opening up the world’s fastest growth region for clients. With 31 offices globally, 540+ partners and more than 2100 lawyers, we are one of the largest international legal networks in Aisa.

Practice areas

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Seasonal Clerkship program

We’ve designed a program to help you make the most of your time with us. During your clerkship, you’ll learn: • The day-to-day skills to get you started – taking instructions, meeting with clients, drafting memos and documents, managing your practice and professional relationships.

• The core practice teams at King & Wood Mallesons – who they are, what they do, how they’re structured, the clients they work for, and of course, your role within them.

• Our culture – you’ll be exposed to many events and activities that create our unique culture.

• Our people – you’ll find that people from every part of the business will help you along, sharing their knowledge, and ensuring you have everything you need to fit in, and do well.

We run 2 summer clerkships and 1 winter clerkship. You’ll be allocated a supervisor in each of your practice groups and work closely with the partners, senior associates and solicitors in that team.

During your time in the team, you’ll be involved in telephone conversations, meetings, client visits and deals the team is working on.

and are intrinsically motivated.

• Are you empathetic? Can you stand in the shoes of our client and experience the problem from their perspective?

• Are you traditional and risk averse or are you excited by a changing and fluid work environment?

• Team work: We believe in team work and the ‘Power of Together’. Our results are realised through collaboration, innovation and engagement.

What distinguishes us

Our ability to connect Asia to the world and the world to Asia, is our key differentiator. Through local connections and deep understanding of the region’s culture we are focussed on opening up the world’s fastest growth region for clients.

Recent accolades and/or recognitions

• More than 80 global awards in 2014 • #14 global legal brand and #1 global brand in Asia • We are the only law firm able to practice in Australian, PRC, Hong Kong and English law.

International opportunities

Graduate Traineeship program

Our graduates participate in a targeted development program comprising of 3x6 month rotations. We have a framework that cultivates valuable skills and that sets them up for success now and in the future.

The program provides a practical business foundation for junior lawyers. You’ll receive: • Meaningful work covering a breadth of areas • Client contact and an in-depth understanding of how they operate in a commercial and regulatory environment • The opportunity to work with a range of partners, senior associates and solicitors in different practice groups • Knowledge of the firm, our resources, our processes and the people you’ll work with.

As part of the Graduate Program, we also offer a Practical Legal Training (PLT) course with the College of Law to our Australian Law Graduates, ensuring that you meet the requirements for admission to legal practice.

What we look for

We recruit high achieving, client centric, people with an international perspective. We understand that technical excellence is only one factor of success.

We look for people who have an intellectual curiosity

As part of the Graduate Program, you are also able to apply for a six month placement to one of our international offices. In 2014, 13 graduates went on secondment, 3 Graduates into UK, 3 Graduates into Hong Kong and 7 into Australia.

Work/life balance

Many Graduates tell us one of the main reasons they joined the firm was the people. We work hard together but we also enjoy spending time with each other outside the office. Each centre has social and sporting committees to help organise a wide range of activities for staff to enjoy, from themed Friday night drinks, to yoga and Pilates. We also have a multitude of sporting teams including soccer, basketball, netball and cricket.

We also offer support through a number of Health & Wellbeing programs and initiatives including annual health checks and flu shots, and subsidised private health insurance.

KWM in the community

We are proud of the ongoing contribution that we make to the community. We donate money and volunteer our time. We have defined our specific charitable targets to: • Help children and young people at risk • Help alleviate poverty and improve community welfare.

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Life as a Graduate in Projects / Energy & Resources Cloe Hammon – Solicitor

I entered the Projects/Energy & Resources group at an exciting time, as a deal the team had been working on was beginning to escalate. We were acting for BG Group on the sale of their 540km LNG pipeline in Queensland, which links gas fields in the Surat Basin to a natural gas liquefaction plant on Curtis Island.

It is the world’s first project to turn gas from coal seams into liquefied natural gas.

For those interested in how big pieces of infrastructure are actually run, operated, built, sold or purchased from a legal perspective, this is the group to be in. It allows for drafting of technical documents but with the added element of being able to understand how big projects such as these operate.

As a graduate lawyer in only my second six months at a firm, I was unsure what to expect from any kind of transaction – let alone one of this magnitude.

As it turns out, I was given incredible exposure to a major transaction while learning the technicalities of LNG pipeline operation.

One of my first tasks was to review documents that would be released via an online ‘data room’.

Bidders for the pipeline would be able to view a whole range of documents relating to the operation and management of the pipeline – including land titles that the pipe runs through, native title agreements, indigenous land use agreements, and environmental permits.

This is just to name a few – there are a whole range of documents and information that are necessary to own a pipeline of this size that one would never usually consider. As we were acting for the vendor, we were essentially preparing the documents for the potential purchasers to conduct their own due diligence.

This process evolved into preparing the actual agreements which would piece the transaction

together. There were many of these, and part of my role was to help the team create each one and upload them to the data room as they were finalised. For example, ‘Gas Transportation Agreements’ which represent the value of the pipeline and set out which Shippers are to take Gas at which point, and the ‘Operations and Maintenance Agreement’ which establishes how the pipeline is operated and managed. Involvement in preparing these agreements often required a grasp of complicated, technical terms to do with pipeline operation and gas allocation and measurement. This meant that I grew to know a lot about how LNG pipelines operate. For someone who has an interest in the Energy and Resources sector it is a great way to learn the mechanics of projects of this kind.

I was lucky enough to get to go to Sydney for a few weeks to meet with the client when we started to get to the pointy end of the transaction and work through the agreements with each of the potential bidders. Multiple bidders require multiple versions of the same set of documents up until signing - document control becomes very important at this point!

Signing the Share Sale Purchase Agreement in Sydney was exciting and rewarding, to see the many documents the team had worked on being finalised, compiled and signed.

This transaction is just an example of one project that might be typical of work in an Energy and Resources team. I have also had exposure to electricity, rail and windfarm transactions, each of which provided insight into the technical operations of these major pieces of infrastructure.

For those interested in how big pieces of infrastructure are actually run, operated, built, sold or purchased from a legal perspective, this is the group to be in. It allows for drafting of technical documents but with the added element of being able to understand how big projects such as these operate.

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Level 12, 600 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 3 9269 9000 W: www.landers.com.au HR Contact Laura Grant, Graduate Resourcing Consultant E: lgrant@landers.com.au P: +61 3 9269 9333 Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship cvMail

Lander & Rogers

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship cvMail

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 28–34 Intake 1: 10–12 Intake 2: 8–10 Intake 3: 10–12 Key Dates Intake 1: November – December 2015 Intake 2: January – February 2016 Intake 3: June - July 2016 Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 10 Number of graduates recruited from Graduate Market: 0 International students considered: No LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About Lander & Rogers

Lander & Rogers is a leading independent Australian law firm operating nationally from Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. We have seven main areas of practice and are a principal advisor to many publicly listed and private Australian companies, Australian subsidiaries of global companies, as well as all levels of government.

We provide practical legal advice, along with exceptional client service, and we are renowned in Australia for our down-to-earth and friendly culture.

We have a distinctively happy workplace, achieved through selectively recruiting people who think and act collaboratively and will strengthen our culture. The firm comprises 65 partners and approximately 400 lawyers, support and internal services staff. We have grown organically, resulting in a highly cohesive firm sharing a strong work and services ethic, and high staff and partner retention rates.

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conferences, mediations and court; • Attending practice group discussions; • Participating in tailored learning and development sessions and; • Plenty of time to get away from your desk to participate in social activities

Our practice areas

The firm’s legal services are multi-disciplinary in nature and cover Corporate, Commercial Disputes, Family & Relationship Law, Insurance Law & Litigation, Property, Projects & Infrastructure, WorkCover, and Workplace Relations & Safety.

Pro Bono work

Lander & Rogers is committed to developing a culture and business which supports the undertaking of pro bono work and other similar initiatives in the community. We have a market leading pro bono program in place which focuses on matters of access to justice, social inclusion and community service work.

We have a pro bono partner appointed to drive the practice of pro bono at the firm and we treat pro bono work as equally important to the firm as paid work. Everyone in the firm is encouraged to participate in and engage with our pro bono work.

Our program includes: • pro bono legal work • volunteering and secondment opportunities • fundraising campaigns and educational forums • work place giving

Our innovative seasonal clerkship program is built on learning and fun and we’ll do everything we can to show you the way by giving you a chance to have a go for yourself.

A clerkship with a difference

Our innovative seasonal clerkship program is built on learning and fun and we’ll do everything we can to show you the way by giving you a chance to have a go for yourself.

On joining us you’ll be teamed with two lawyers (one experienced, and another a little closer in level to you) who will immerse you in the day to day running of their practices. What that means on a practical level will vary depending on the practice group you join (we’ll ask you to indicate your preferences), and could involve: • Researching points of law and summarising your findings; • Drafting correspondence, court documents and sections of commercial agreements ; • Reviewing and analysing legislation and case law; • Observing our lawyers in action at meetings,

These experiences will provide you with a much clearer idea of what it means to be a lawyer.

You’ll also develop a better feel for the human side of Lander & Rogers, such as why our people work here, where they’ve come from, and what they do when they’re not being lawyers.

Our Graduate program

Our graduate program is built on four practice group rotations (we’ll ask you to indicate your preferences), each of three months duration, and covering commercial and litigious areas of practice. Your practical experiences will be similar to the activities you tackled at the clerkship level, and will gradually increase in complexity to reflect the advancement of your skills and confidence with each rotation.

You’ll also participate in a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice with the College of Law, as well as tailored internal learning and development activities to broaden your knowledge.

In each rotation you’re teamed with an experienced lawyer who makes it their job to ensure you experience: • The best variety and volume of challenging work • Involvement with clients to speed your learning process • Coaching on skill development • Regular feedback on performance and progress • Advice on managing your transition into the legal profession Want the facts from others who’ve been there and done that? www.landers.com.au/careers/ law-students/walk-in-our-shoes It’s not all work

We value our people and understand the importance of our staff maintaining a healthy and balanced lifestyle and we encourage our seasonal clerks and graduates to get involved in life at Landers as much as possible.

Our health and wellbeing committee, LandersMax!, encourages our people to get involved in various activities, including BootCamp, Pilates, tennis, triathlon and indoor sports competitions, language classes, in-house massage, social events and much more.

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What we look for

We’re in the business of dealing with people, whether that is each other, our clients, barristers or you. So, we aim to recruit people who are friendly, down to earth, and who can engage with a whole range of people in the workplace.

You’ll also need intelligence to tackle the most interesting of legal scenarios, energy to absorb new concepts and changing laws, and a willingness to work productively with lots of different people.

We don’t expect that you’ll be a gun at all of these things straight away, but when we meet you at interview we’ll be curious to learn more about your potential to handle these things in the future, based on the skills and experience you’ve already built through studying law (and other disciplines), any legal and non-legal part-time work, volunteer work and university activities you’ve tackled.

We are among the fastest growing law firms by headcount in Australasia… This growth presents great opportunities for the career progression of our people.

What makes us different?

As a medium sized firm, we’re big enough to attract great clients with fantastic work; but small enough to be focussed on the important things like learning and development, opportunities for our people to progress, mentoring our junior lawyers and maintaining a happy workplace.

We are among the fastest growing law firms by headcount in Australasia. In April 2014, another step in our firm’s growth strategy was completed with the opening of our Brisbane office. This growth presents great opportunities for the career progression of our people.

Our growth has been achieved through above average retention levels, and through growing organically by consistently recruiting graduates over many years. We are committed to sustaining the growth and longevity of the firm through continuing to recruit talented graduates from our seasonal clerkship intakes.

Check out our video ‘Working at Lander & Rogers – what’s it really like?’ to learn more about what our firm has to offer clerks and graduates. www.landers.com.au/Careers/Lawstudents/ WhyjoinLanderRogers.aspx

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Workplace Relations & Safety Kaitlyn Gulle – Lawyer

Sex, death, money, drugs, lovers and liars. No, this isn’t an episode of How to Get Away with Murder. In fact, these are all common themes of legal practice in a thriving Workplace Relations & Safety (WRS) team.

A day in the life of a WRS lawyer may involve anything from conducting an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, attending a picket line during a period of unlawful industrial action, managing the site of a serious workplace accident or seeking an urgent injunction to prevent a client’s confidential information falling into the hands of a competitor.

The work we do is interesting, diverse and often infused with a ‘human’ element that makes it easily relatable to the everyday world. Moreover, we practice in both litigious and non-litigious areas of the law, which means that WRS lawyers develop broad skills across both. One day you might be drafting contractual clauses, the next day appearing in court or discussing litigation strategies with senior counsel, and the following day could see you writing a complex piece of advice.

Since joining Lander & Rogers’ WRS team four years ago, some of my personal career highlights have included instructing in the landmark High Court appeal regarding the prohibition on making payments to employees during protected industrial action under section 470 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth); acting in Supreme Court proceedings against former employees to seek interlocutory injunctions to prevent breach of post-employment restraints; successfully defending claims of sexual harassment and discrimination against a public hospital and seven medical practitioners in VCAT proceedings brought by a patient, including managing issues associated with the patient’s ongoing attendance and inappropriate behaviour at the hospital; successfully obtaining and executing an Anton Piller search order at the home of a former employee of one of our national corporate clients; acting for a client in relation to industrial action (protected and unprotected) and picketing by its highly unionised workforce, including seeking an interlocutory injunction in Federal Court and assisting at site during the picket; and working with the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission to draft a handbook on Victorian Discrimination Law. Lawyers in WRS at Lander & Rogers are encouraged to work with different partners and senior lawyers across the group. This enables us to observe

and learn from different styles of negotiating, drafting legal documents, writing advice, communicating and marketing. Ultimately, this has helped me to develop my own style as a lawyer in the field of WRS. Because of the political nature and public interest in WRS, this area of law is constantly in the spotlight and always evolving. Not only does this keep things interesting for us from a legal perspective, it also requires us to provide regular updates and training to our clients, whether through e-mail alerts, magazine publications, breakfast briefings or simply picking up the telephone to arrange a lunch or coffee. Hence, marketing and relationship building are almost as integral to our team as our legal skills.

Ultimately, WRS is a challenging and rewarding area of the law. There’s something in it for everyone.

Because of the political nature and public interest in WRS, this area of law is constantly in the spotlight and always evolving.

Not only does this keep things interesting for us from a legal perspective, it also requires us to provide regular updates and training to our clients, whether through e-mail alerts, magazine publications, breakfast briefings or simply picking up the telephone to arrange a lunch or coffee.

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Level 6, 140 William Street Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9258 3555 W: www.maddocks.com.au HR Contact Kate Chisholm, People & Culture E: k ate.chisholm@maddocks.com.au Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship www.maddocks.com.au/careers Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship

Maddocks Working Together to Make a Difference… Every Day

www.maddocks.com.au/careers

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 16 Intake 1: 8 Intake 2: 8 Key Dates Intake 1: 23 November – 18 December 2015 Intake 2: 27 June – 22 July 2016 Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: Yes Applications Open: 20 July 2015 Applications Close: 23 August 2015 Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 6–8 Number of graduates recruited from Graduate Market: 2–4 International students considered: Yes (subject to visa status) LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About us

Maddocks provides premium commercial legal services to corporations, businesses and governments throughout Australia and internationally. We advise national clients across education, government, infrastructure, healthcare, professional services and technology, from our Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney offices.

At Maddocks we look for people whose values coincide with ours – integrity, diversity, collaboration, stewardship and innovation.

Practice areas

• Commercial • Commercial Disputes • Employment, Safety and People • Construction • Development • Public Law (including Governance, Planning, Environment & Regulation & Admin Law) • Property

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Seasonal Clerkship program

Maddocks recognises that every individual has something unique to offer. We accept applicants pursuing a combined degree, undergrad law or the JD program.

Our approach to recruitment is based around our commitment to individuality and diversity. We will consider each application in its entirety to determine whether the applicant has strengths and qualities that are compatible with ours.

The Maddocks application form is comprehensive and it is always clear when a candidate has spent a lot of time preparing their answers. An application that showcases an individual’s personality always stands out. Academic performance is important, however we do take a holistic approach and consider all information provided.

Graduate Traineeship program

Our graduates complete practical legal training through the College of Law. This complements a comprehensive internal training program. Our graduates complete three month rotations through four of the firm’s practice groups over a year. Graduates also meet monthly with the People & Culture Coordinator to discuss issues and receive feedback collected from the team. Within the practice teams, each graduate is assigned a senior lawyer as their coordinator who helps with workflow and acts as a mentor for the duration of the rotation. They are also assigned a first year lawyer as their buddy.

Graduates at Maddocks have the opportunity to work with autonomy on high quality, complex matters, and have contact with clients where appropriate.

What we look for

We look for students who have a well-rounded experience and approach to life, who not only have an excellent academic ability but who also fit the firm’s culture and values.

Employee learning and development programs and opportunities

Training for graduates includes ongoing regular sessions, both internal and external, for all areas of practice. There is a firm wide comprehensive internal training program with monthly CLE sessions run by either Maddocks lawyers or external providers. Each practice team also runs its own regular sessions on relevant topics or technical updates.

We also offer specialised training on basic practice management issues such as time management, communication skills and dealing with the office environment. The firm actively encourages further study and provides financial support as well as study leave

for relevant post-graduate qualifications. Each lawyer is encouraged to hold professional memberships and the firm pays for one per individual.

Pro bono work

We take pro bono very seriously. Our community includes organisations and individuals working for the public good, but who have limited resources available to improve and protect their work. Our people recognise that many individuals in society cannot obtain access to justice without legal assistance on a pro bono basis.

Our pro bono scheme operates across all of the firm’s areas of practice. We assist clients with respect to corporate governance, commercial, tax and structuring advice, DGR applications, industrial relations, FOI as well as contract, property and estate disputes.

We also advise pro bono clients on complex and sensitive complaints and decision review processes.

We work closely with Justice Connect and other referral organisations to ensure that the needs of our pro bono clients are met quickly and professionally. We also support the Mental Health Legal Centre, Kids Under Cover and the Victorian Women’s Housing Association.

All of our lawyers are encouraged to take part.

Our pro bono scheme is coordinated by a national committee led by our pro bono partners, Peter Francis (Victoria) and Lisa Chung (New South Wales).

Application Tips

Make sure you do your research on the firm and give yourself plenty of time to complete the application form. Speak to graduates, former seasonal clerks, or anyone who can give you information about the firm, its culture and values. Arrive a little early for your interview to give yourself time to gather your thoughts and make sure you have at least a couple of questions for your interviewers.

Try to relax and be natural – the interview is as much an opportunity for you to get to know us, as it is for us to get to know you.

What type of work a Seasonal Clerk will undertake

At Maddocks, our intention is to ensure clerks have a good understanding of the firm and the kind of work that we do, as well as what it would be like to be a graduate at the firm – we genuinely offer our clerks hands on, practical work. Clerks will work closely not only with solicitors but with Senior Associates and Partners and will have exposure to a wide range of matters. We aim to challenge our clerks and push them to their full potential.

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Maddocks Property Group Sharee Darwinkel – Graduate at Maddocks

I am a graduate lawyer at Maddocks in Melbourne, currently working in the Property Group. While completing my law degree I worked as a Judge’s Associate in the County Court of Victoria. One of the most daunting things about finishing my law degree was thinking about not where I wanted to work, but who I wanted to work for. In order to help make this decision, I, like many of you reading this, applied for clerkships at various law firms. For the purposes of this article I’ll try and avoid the over hyped ‘c’ word – culture (*shudder*) – and try to demonstrate why Maddocks was the right choice for me.

Diversity is a really strong focus at Maddocks and our grad group is testament to that. We have a broad group of people of varying ages, some straight out of uni, others who have worked before, whether in the legal industry or in unrelated fields.

All of us have been able to bring different experiences to the group.

It was obvious to us that Maddocks appreciates and values employing people with diverse backgrounds.

Importantly to most of you, you’ll want to know what kind of work makes Maddocks different from every other firm and what you’ll spend your time doing when you sign on as a clerk. Maddocks offers three clerkship intakes annually for students completing law degrees. Each intake is for a period of 4 weeks during which you will spend time working in two of the firm’s teams. The perfect number to try your hand working with different lawyers and really find out which area of law suits you. As a clerk or a graduate lawyer, you can expect to be given real tasks from day one.

For me, I was attracted to Maddocks as many of its practice groups encourage their lawyers to run their own cases. In a few short years you could find yourself in planning or development disputes down

in VCAT, cross examining witnesses and making your arguments, or perhaps on your feet at Fairwork Australia. If you have a passion for litigation, Maddocks will give you the chance to explore it. Given my background in the courts, this was a natural fit for me.

Equally important to me was finding a firm where I felt supported in my work and encouraged to achieve success. A clerkship at Maddocks is a great opportunity to work alongside talented and experienced lawyers who are generous with their time and take a genuine interest in developing junior lawyers.

Diversity is a really strong focus at Maddocks and our grad group is testament to that. We have a broad group of people of varying ages, some straight out of uni, others who have worked before, whether in the legal industry or in unrelated fields. All of us have been able to bring different experiences to the group. It was obvious to us that Maddocks appreciates and values employing people with diverse backgrounds. Maddocks recognised that ultimately client’s will benefit from having lawyers with diverse skills, experience and backgrounds.

When it comes to gender equality, Maddocks has some serious credentials behind its name. They were named by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an employer of choice in 2014, were recognised by the Victorian Government for developing programs and practices to improve work/family balance and were named Best Australasian Firm for work-life balance at the Euromoney Legal Media Group Australasia Women in Business Law Awards.

Phew – what a mouth full! But from all that what really matters is what you see on the ground. Maddocks has a female CEO (the amazing Michelle Dixon), women hold half the seats on the board and the firm also runs the Maddocks Women initiative.

Maddocks believes in work life balance and provides regular social settings in the form of monthly Friday night drinks, lunchtime sporting teams and firm wide functions. This is just another reason to choose Maddocks, to join in the fun and get to know the staff and lawyers from all around the firm.

It is essential that the firm not only choose you, but that you choose the firm. I would encourage other students to apply as a clerkship is a great opportunity to gain an insight into what it is truly like to work at Maddocks. If you have any questions about life as a lawyer at Maddocks give me a call or send me an email.

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Level 23, Rialto Towers 525 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: 03 8608 2000 W: www.minterellison.com HR Contact Elizabeth Atchison, Clerk & Graduate Resourcing E: elizabeth.atchison@minterellison.com Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship via firm website www.minterellison.com/careers

Minter Ellison Real People Achieving Excellence

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship N/A

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: approximately 50 Intake 1: approximately 25 Intake 2: approximately 25 Key Dates Intake 1: 23 November – 11 December 2015 Intake 2: TBC Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: September 2015 Offers Released: 7 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: TBC International students considered: No LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

Office locations

Australia: Adelaide*, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin*, Gold Coast*, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney Asia: Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Ulaanbaatar New Zealand: Auckland*, Wellington* Europe: London * Associated offices that operate as members of The Minter Ellison Legal Group

Number of lawyers/partners

200+ partners and more than 680 legal staff (a total workforce of more than 1600 people).

Our Business Units and Divisions

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Corporate & Regulatory Dispute Resolution Financial Institutions Group Human Resources & Industrial Relations Insurance & Corporate Risk Mergers & Acquisitions Projects, Infrastructure & Construction Real Estate, Environment & Planning Tax

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MinterEllison partners with clients to provide integrated, innovative legal solutions.

Our membership of the Australian Business and Community Network (ABCN) has enabled us to participate in a wide range of literacy, leadership and mentoring initiatives in schools across Australia.

Our teams collaborate across Australia, Asia and the UK to deliver exceptional service and inspire new insights.

Clerkship Program

About MinterEllison

Tony Harrington, our Chief Executive says it best. “At MinterEllison, our goal is to be our clients’ best partner. With this absolute focus, we will continue to drive growth, strengthen capability and foster innovation.”

What distinguishes Minter Ellison?

Like other top Australian law firms, we’re big, we run an international practice and we work on headline deals for iconic corporate clients.

Have you heard about our interview morning? Some say it can be daunting before you arrive on the day – on the day, the most frequent statement is ‘wow, the time just flew by’ and ‘I’ve really enjoyed it!’ as well as ‘It was fun’. Who wouldn’t want an interview that sounds like fun. Candidates participate in an interview, a group exercise and an individual written exercise followed by lunch. Each session lasts 45 minutes followed by a ‘meet and greet’ break with our graduates and junior lawyers for some quick down time before you get started again.

Yet not all law firms are the same. Clients tell us that we differ from our competitors because our lawyers are very easy to work with*. That’s because the importance of client relationships underpins everything we do.

It is very important to us that our vacation clerkship recruitment process is a two-way process. You are assessing our firm and the best way to do that is to spend lots of time with us.

* Legal Beacon Report™ (Beaton Consulting)

When you interview with us for the clerkship program, you’re essentially interviewing for a place on our graduate program. Our graduates come from our clerkship programs; we do not ‘go to market’ or advertise externally. Our clerkships programs are relatively small; with only two intakes – one in the summer and one in the winter. This means the chance of securing a graduate position are high – based on performance of course.

Pro Bono & Community Investment

Connecting with the community through pro bono legal work, volunteering activities and financial assistance is part of who we are and what we do. Since 2003, MinterEllison has had a formal commitment, endorsed by the Partnership Board, to operate in accordance with corporate social responsibility principles.

Breaking the cycles of disadvantage MinterEllison is committed to the guiding principle of ‘breaking cycles of disadvantage’ in four priority areas: • disadvantaged youth • homelessness • alleviation of poverty • access to justice.

Pro bono

As lawyers, we assist first and foremost by providing pro bono legal assistance to disadvantaged people.

We connect with these clients through our partnerships with referral bodies such as Justice Connect, QPILCH, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, ACT Pro Bono Clearing House and the Law Society of Western Australia.

Applications

All applications must be submitted online via the careers section of our website, www.minterellison.com/ careers. Candidates are asked to complete an online application form and submit a resume, a cover letter and their latest transcripts. An interesting and well written application with good supporting documents will stand out; so it’s worth putting in the time and effort to submit a great application. You will be remembered for it and that can lead to an interview with us.

Great applications lead to interviews.

Successful applicants will participate in: • an interview • a group exercise • individual written exercise and • lunch.

Community Partnerships

Our commitment to breaking cycles of disadvantage, particularly for young people – has resulted in a strong focus on student mentoring programs.

Advice for applicants

Candidates should be in their penultimate year.

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Apply early. Speak to as many of our employees as you can, it’s a great way to learn more about our firm.

• Add personality to your application. Tell us about your interests outside of university and the law.

• Carefully review all your documents for spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors.

• Your cover letter is our first glimpse of you.

Make a powerful first impression. It pays to put some effort into producing an engaging letter Being a Clerk at Minter Ellison

During your clerkship you are placed in one practice group during the three week program.

Our vacation clerkship program offers you real life work experience. A comprehensive orientation program and learning on the job which will help you build your legal skills and commercial acumen.

During our program you will • work closely with partners and lawyers on active matters • have access to meaningful work • participate in tangible learning & development activities and • attend social and networking events

Initiative: We value proactive, engaging and resourceful people. We encourage critical thinking, decisiveness and ingenuity. Our lawyers come from a diverse range of backgrounds and universities but all share the key attributes we look for in our clerks and graduates: a passion for excellence, initiative and technical achievement.

Graduate Program

MinterEllison’s integrated Practical Legal Training (PLT) program is specifically tailored for our graduates with a strong focus on working for a top tier commercial law firm. Assessment timetables are designed to allow our graduates to manage their workload effectively. Firm precedents and resources are used to ensure the experience is truly ‘practical’.

Our Graduates

Our clerkship program is the pipeline for our graduate program. That means we do not advertise our graduate positions. Past clerks need to simply confirm they are eligible to be considered for priority offers in accordance with LIV guidelines.

Rotations

The emphasis of the clerkship is on ensuring you are integrated into the team and receive a variety of legal work. Our social calendar ensures you have fun and get to know the firm’s graduates, lawyers and partners in a more informal environment.

Recruitment at MinterEllison is a two-way process. Our Vacation Clerkship is important, because in our view, there is no better way for you to make a decision about your future here than to spend three weeks with us. Equally, there is no better way for us to get to know you.

What does the firm look for in a vacation clerk?

Excellence: We want people who strive to be the best, pursue outstanding outcomes, and are passionate about a career in commercial law.

Commercial awareness: Although this comes with experience and time, we’re interested in people who are commercially savvy, know how a business works and are interested in business generally.

Through our graduate rotation program, you have the opportunity to learn about, and experience various areas of legal practice before having to choose your particular area of interest. Graduates can undertake up to three rotations of six months each.

Ongoing development

When our graduates start their careers, they receive tailored learning and development – both in technical skills and important commercial skills such as client interaction, business development and interpersonal dynamics. The programs have everything needed to build a successful, long-term legal career.

Our graduates also attend a dedicated LifeSkills program to assist in maintaining personal wellbeing.

That’s not all, our learning opportunities don’t end following the conclusion of the Graduate Development Program. We want our graduates to be well equipped to be successful and confident as they progress through their MinterEllison career. From graduate all the way to partner, our staff continue to have access to programs and mentoring opportunities that are specifically designed to help our lawyers grow and succeed.

Team fit: We look for people with ideas and energy, who share our values and work well as part of a team.

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Intellectual Property, Patents and Trade marks Megan Evetts – Lawyer

Tell us about your path to the IP, Patents and Trade marks team?

Initially I was very focused on studying medicine (not having any real exposure to the law growing up) so I moved from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne to study Biomedical Science at Monash University.

During my studies I was approached by the university about studying a double degree in Biomedical Science and Law and I enrolled with the view of focusing on intellectual property. I worked in the Physiology Department at Monash and then at an Intellectual Property law firm for three years during uni before undertaking my graduate year.

How do you use your science knowledge in the course of your work?

Views on science in IP differ in terms of how much science is required to work within this area of practice. In my case, the best thing that my understanding of science has given me is a ‘want’ to understand how things work. This enables me to undertake work both in the pharmaceutical sector as well as other areas.

That said, a technical degree will give you a leg up to helping you understand particular subject matter.

Tell us about your role in IP, Patents and Trade marks.

My work extends to all areas within the team. The team is well known for pharmaceutical patent litigation but we are involved in many different areas of intellectual property.

In the patent space, I assist with the work required to get a patent granted both in Australia and overseas.

This includes drafting the patent itself and then moving the application through the legal process to get it granted. The types of industries that we work in vary widely. For example, I’ve done work for clients in the contact lens, mining, roller blinds and tap industries to name a few. I’ve also worked on two large pieces of pharmaceutical patent litigation and a concrete patent infringement case in my time with the team.

We also do a lot of non-patent related work, both litigious and commercial. From a trade mark perspective, I assisted in providing advice to an iconic Australian company in their rebranding strategy. We also provide advice in relation to copyright, contracts

(including clinical trial agreements and IP assignment/licensing issues) and therapeutic regulatory approval requirements.

At my level in the team no one specialises early in their career and every day is different. The only instance where this isn’t the case, is if you’re working on one large case and that becomes your focus for however long the case is running.

Describe the types of clients you work with.

As I mentioned earlier, my role and the industries I work with are really varied. In addition to the clients, you can also spend a lot of time with expert witnesses and barristers. For example, in relation to pharmaceutical litigation, the expert witnesses could include medical specialists, biochemists, formulation scientists, pharmacologists etc who are quite often leaders in their field.

I’m also on a part time secondment at the moment which involves working with people from all areas of the business in Australia, India, the USA and Europe such as commercial, regulatory approval and research and development teams.

What do you enjoy and find challenging about your role?

I love my job, particularly the litigation aspects. It enables me to still be involved in science by reading scientific articles and talking with experts in the field. I then take that information away and apply it to what we’re doing. It still gives me that exposure and access to the two areas I’m interested in, medicine and law.

The most challenging aspect for some is bridging the barrier between non-legal individuals such as scientists and non-scientific individuals such as barristers and judges. Scientists are quite often explaining very complicated science, so it has to be very clear.

I also love the people management side of my role and the strategy behind what we do.

Describe the tasks clerks and graduates typically undertake in your group.

The great thing about working in the group is that the work is varied and every day is different. The team actively encourage the clerks and graduates

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in the team to offer an opinion and be involved in the work of the team. It is not a case of being ‘seen but not heard’. Tasks include daily court judgment searches, reviewing new patent and trade mark cases and researching areas of law to report to the team.

Additionally, clerks and graduates have the opportunity to attend meetings with barristers and court hearings. Shortly after joining the team I helped with an urgent interlocutory matter in the Federal Court, a daunting but great learning opportunity. Of course there are also the not so glitzy tasks... a rite of passage for any junior in a litigation team is ‘pushing a trolley’ to court.

The great thing about working in the group is that the work is varied and every day is different. The team actively encourage the clerks and graduates in the team to offer an opinion and be involved in the work of the team. It is not a case of being ‘seen but not heard’.

Finally, do you have any tips or advice for students applying for clerkships?

The key is to distinguish yourself from others who are applying such as by showing a level of understanding which demonstrates interest in this particular area of practice. One example is to look at some of the actual work the team has done in the past, pointing out a particular aspect of that work that interests you.

Most importantly, students need to be themselves during the process, every team in every firm is different and you need to find the firm that is the right fit for you. Perhaps having a more targeted approach to clerkship applications might be better than a scattered one. Good luck!

What advice would you give to students who are interested in pursuing a career in this area of practice?

You have to be a good communicator. Given the varied industries, clients and people we work with on a daily basis, it is important to be able to discuss the work you are doing in a way that is easy to understand. The ‘plain language’ of science and law. Any kind of practical work experience in the field while at university is also important.

In terms of electives or courses to study while at uni, IP is a good start. Students with a basic understanding of copyright, patent or trade mark law may benefit in the group. Having said that, there are students who have not studied those subjects who have been exceptional.

My best tip is for students to speak to people who are currently practising in the area, meet them at fairs or campus presentations. There are also lots of blogs, journals and industry groups that students can read and be involved in. Here at Minter Ellison we have our own IP blog, I recommend the ‘Top 13 of 2013 patent and trade mark cases’.

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Media and Communications Working as a Media Lawyer at Minter Ellison Peter Barlett – Media and Communications Group, Past Chairman, Minter Ellison Lawyers

The role of a media lawyer at Minter Ellison is demanding, frustrating, but always stimulating. One of the stimulating factors is that you can never predict what the day will bring. You may hear that a client has published something that is indefensible, that a corporation or a wellknown individual is furious at something published and ‘wants blood’, that a bill is before parliament that requires urgent approaches to politicians, that you need to oppose an application for a suppression order happening in court almost immediately or that a party is seeking an injunction against the media.

Our group has the advantage of acting for traditional media, new media, international media, plus companies and government bodies and individuals facing reputational issues. The variety of matters that come across our desks keep our teams stimulated. Our group is also one of the few in any firm in Australia that has consistently been ranked tier one in every independent international directory.

happening in our courts. Despite that we still see far too many suppression orders being made. The courts also need to realise that in the online environment, their orders are not always effective. Last year the Supreme Court suppressed the names of a number of prominent people in Asia. WikiLeaks published the names and media in Asia then published articles naming those individuals. WikiLeaks and the Asian media are outside the jurisdiction of the Victorian courts.

We have appeared and argued that those suppression orders should now be lifted or varied as they are no longer effective. The judge has reserved her decision.

The variety of matters that come across our desks keep our teams stimulated. Our group is also one of the few in any firm in Australia that has consistently been ranked tier one in every independent international directory.

Since the High Court decision in Dow Jones v Gutnick, material is taken to be published every time it is downloaded. This means that online publishers are exposed to actions anywhere in the world. Our group for example acted for Fairfax Media when it was sued in Jakarta for US$1 billion following the publication of a WikiLeaks’ article about the president. We were able to have the action struck out as it was not a proper action known to Indonesian law.

The group takes a significant interest in challenging threats to freedom of speech. We have successfully acted for the media in opposing seven separate attempts to force journalists to disclose sources, in recent years. We were critical of the recent National Security Amendment Bill. We have opposed attempts to seek injunctions against media clients seeking to prevent publications.

In 2013 the Open Courts Act came into effect in Victoria. There is a fundamental principle in a democratic society that the public has a right to know what is

We have seen a very significant increase in the number of actions arising from social media and online publications generally. As a Sydney judge recently observed ‘The uniform [defamation] legislation, drafted at a time when even the internet’s possibilities were only beginning to be understood, is struggling to maintain the necessary tension between freedom of speech and protection of reputation.’

Defamation cases involve complex areas of law and raise difficult pleading points. When a writ is served in defamation, it is necessary to pay careful attention to the preparation of all court documents and interrogatories. We spend a lot of time making sure that these documents are correct.

We are on call around the clock, seven days a week.

Those calls can often come through at night due to online publications. The iPhone and iPad have made our life a lot easier. In the past we had to be near a hardline telephone or use pagers. The pagers and fax machines in our homes and mobile faxes are now old technology. We are more contactable than ever before.

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Because of the strict deadlines faced by various publications, a client’s queries must be answered immediately, no matter what time of the day. There is little or no time for research. The developments in technology have led to an expanding role for those interested in wider media areas. For those about to commence practice, there are clearly opportunities available.

Some of the expanding areas include telecommunications, pay television and the vast number of issues arising out of the internet and communications law in general.

The benefit of being in a firm such as Minter Ellison is that you can call on an in-house expert for almost any problem that arises.

The areas of technology and communications is a challenging but rewarding area. With uniform defamation laws, continuing challenges from legislation introduced into parliament and a sometimes unsympathetic judiciary, the challenges are significant.

Our group also contains privacy experts who are called on to navigate the complex web of legislation related to privacy. This work usually involves drafting advice relating to compliance with national and state based privacy legislation. This task has become all the more crucial with the introduction of the Australian Privacy Principles in 2014 with which most Australian companies and all Commonwealth government agencies must comply. We have an impressive group of clients who we advise in this capacity.

They include competition, company law, tax, defamation, breach of confidence, contempt, privacy, trademarks, patents, passing off, suppression orders, social media and digital content, ridicule, insurance and industrial law. There are a significant number of acts restraining publication – for example, copyright, broadcasting and television regulation, telecommunications, satellite, privacy, advertising regulations, administrative law, Freedom of Information legislation and many more.

In an era of specialisation, you could not hope to be an expert in more than a few of these areas. The benefit of being in a firm such as Minter Ellison is that you can call on an in-house expert for almost any problem that arises. The areas of technology and communications (with particular emphasis on media law) is a challenging but rewarding area. With uniform defamation laws, continuing challenges from legislation introduced into parliament and a sometimes unsympathetic judiciary, the challenges are significant.

Junior lawyers and graduates are given significant levels of responsibility, which allows them to grow into their role in our group. Typically, a graduate or junior lawyer will work closely with an experienced lawyer or partner on a file. Juniors assist with drafting correspondence and pleadings, liaising with counsel and also have input into the strategy of a case. Junior lawyers are also tasked with appearing in court and making submissions to oppose the making of suppression orders. This can be daunting at first, but is an invaluable experience and builds lawyers’ confidence quickly.

Our group also has a sports law component. We acted for the AFL in the Essendon-ASADA scandal and we are currently assisting Racing Victoria stewards with the ongoing investigations into elevated levels of cobalt in horses trained by prominent Victorian trainers.

Media lawyers practice in a variety of areas including print media, radio, television, telecommunications, pay television, film, entertainment, advertising and the ever expanding online environment. These areas in themselves raise a number of legal issues.

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Level 12, 469 La Trobe Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P: +61 03 9609 1555 W: www.rk.com.au HR Contact Heidi Ulrich, Human Resources Advisor E: hulrich@rk.com.au P: +61 03 9609 1517 Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship cvMail

Russell Kennedy

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship cvMail

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 25* Intake 1: 8* Intake 2: 9* Intake 3: 8* * 2014/2015 figures

Key Dates Intake 1: 16 November – 11 December 2015 Intake 2: 18 January – 12 February 2016 Intake 3: 27 June – 15 July 2016 Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: Mid – Late September 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 4–6 International students considered: No LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: Yes

About us

With offices in Melbourne and Canberra, Russell Kennedy is trusted by local, national and international clients to deliver expert legal solutions and provide market leading expertise in our sectors of focus.

We are committed to making a difference for our clients, providing opportunities for our people and creating positive and lasting changes within our community.

We build strong, long term relationships with our people and our clients. We provide the right

We are committed to making a difference for our clients, providing opportunities for our people and creating positive and lasting changes within our community.

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people and resources to help our clients achieve their objectives. We have a genuine understanding of, and significant expertise within, our sectors of focus. Our lawyers are leaders in their industries who bring unique experience and insight. We have invested in our team to ensure we have relevant expertise in our areas of focus, with eleven Russell Kennedy lawyers Law Institute of Victoria Accredited Specialists across property, environment, local government and planning, administrative and business law.

Practice areas

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Commercial & Corporate Advisory Dispute Resolution Property & Development Government, Planning & Environment Victorian WorkCover Authority Workplace Relations, Employment & Safety Public Law, Litigation & Aged Care

Seasonal Clerkship program

Our Seasonal Clerkship Program is designed to give you a real taste of life at Russell Kennedy. It’s a great insight into working here, especially starting out as a lawyer.

We’ve designed our Seasonal Clerkship Program to be informative and interesting to help you decide whether you’d like to apply for a Traineeship position. Clerks are partnered with a Mentor and Buddy who will ensure they get the most out of their time with us. Our clerks will be doing real work – like drafting correspondence, assisting with research, attending court as well as participating in client meetings.

Clerks will also be able to attend our in-house seminars for professional development and spend time with our current Trainees to learn about their experiences, challenges and triumphs.

Graduate Traineeship program

Russell Kennedy’s traineeship intake consists of approximately four – six trainees each year. We have a strong record for retaining our trainees with many having gone on to become Principals in the firm.

Trainees undertake a comprehensive induction program which provides an overview of the firm structure, the range of work undertaken, our clients and training that the firm provides. Trainees are also given the opportunity to work with practitioners at all levels during their rotations, as well as having contact with barristers, clients and witnesses.

Upon commencement with the firm, Trainees are allocated a buddy to assist with the transition from university to full-time employment. Trainees are also allocated an ‘Assistant Supervisor’ as a point of contact

during each rotation and a Principal Supervisor.

Trainees meet with their Assistant Supervisors on a regular basis which ensures regular and ongoing feedback. This meeting provides them with the opportunity to sign off tasks in their workbook.

The Trainees meet with their Principal Supervisors on a regular basis to ensure they are up to date with their workbook and have reached an appropriate level of competence and understanding of the tasks being completed.

As part of the Trainee’s Supervised Workplace Training, Russell Kennedy’s Trainees document the work they undertake during their Traineeship year in a workbook. This workbook captures the work undertaken with regard to Compulsory Skills (Ethics and Professional Responsibility), and Elective Practice Areas.

The traineeship program involves four rotations of three months each. Trainees rotate through each division of the firm, which ensures that Trainees are given the opportunity to gain exposure and experience in each of the firm’s practice areas by the end of their Traineeship year.

We’ve designed our Seasonal Clerkship Program to be informative and interesting to help you decide whether you’d like to apply for a Traineeship position.

Clerks are partnered with a Mentor and Buddy who will ensure they get the most out of their time with us.

The benefits of a rotational system include hands on exposure to client files in each area and ideally, by the end of the Traineeship, Trainees can make an informed decision on which practice area they might like to work in. Formal feedback sessions with our trainees are conducted following each rotation.

Trainees are also provided with the opportunity to attend the firm’s in-house CPD sessions, as well as client functions in order to further enhance their skills. They can also attend external CLE sessions that are organised with Leo Cussen or the LIV. The small number of Trainees taken on each year ensures Trainees have access to real, hands on file work. Historically, Russell Kennedy has absorbed all Trainees into the business as first year lawyers upon completion of the ‘articled clerk’ year.

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On a social level, Trainees are also involved with the co-ordination of numerous social events that the firm hosts and are invited to participate in the event co-ordination involved with the Russell Kennedy Social Committee.

What we look for

At Russell Kennedy we are very proud of our culture and we work hard to recruit people that we believe will flourish in our environment.

Naturally a sound academic record is an important starting point, but we also look for other attributes, such as extracurricular interests and life experience outside study. This may be previous work experience, volunteer work, travel, sporting or cultural interests. We look for personable, insightful, intelligent people with energy and enthusiasm who enjoy working as part of a team.

Recent accolades and/or recognition

Our leading expertise was again recognised by Best Lawyers in 2014 with thirteen lawyers recognised for their experience and three lawyers named Best Lawyers’ 2014 ‘Lawyers of the Year’ including Victor Harcourt, Melbourne Health & Aged Care; Andrew Sherman, Melbourne Water Law and Rosemary Southgate, Melbourne Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law. Employee learning and development programs and opportunities

We are committed to helping our people achieve their full potential. Everyone is given an opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge through working in a stimulating environment and learning from practitioners who are leaders in their field.

We encourage our lawyers and staff to attend inhouse and external training programs to enhance their professional and personal development.

In addition, Russell Kennedy’s ‘Edge’ Learning and Development program is designed to nurture your talent so you can more effectively reach your potential at Russell Kennedy. The program is designed to address specific training needs at different stages of your career – with the focus being on technical, business, client and people skills.

number of not-for-profit organisations including the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, the Foster Care Association of Victoria, East Timor Hearts Fund, the Domestic Violence Resource Centre and Hanover Welfare Services.

Russell Kennedy has been a signatory to the National Pro Bono Resource Centre’s Aspirational Target since 2011 and we usually significantly exceed the target of 35 pro bono hours per lawyer per year.

In the 2013/2014 financial year 70% of our lawyers undertook pro bono work and 38% of hours were recorded by staff at Senior Associate level or above.

In addition to the provision of pro bono legal services to not-for-profits and our community partners, we also assist them by hosting training, meetings and events, sharing business development and human resources expertise and resources and the donation of office equipment and technologies.

We are committed to helping our people achieve their full potential.

Everyone is given an opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge through working in a stimulating environment and learning from practitioners who are leaders in their field.

Application Tips

We encourage applicants to research Russell Kennedyand include the reasons you would like to work here in your application. We pay greater attention to applications that demonstrate a candidate’s personality and strengths. We are interested to see how well you are able to balance your work and study with other interests.

Pro bono work

Russell Kennedy is committed to providing access to justice for people who have a special vulnerability.

We assess pro bono referrals in light of their relevance to human rights principles.

We provide pro bono legal assistance to a large

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Local Government and Water Local government and water are a key focus area for Russell Kennedy. The Russell Kennedy team includes industry leaders in local government law and related fields who work hard to build strong relationships and to provide mutual confidence and trust.

We act for over 40 of Victoria’s councils, and have specialists in governance, planning law, environment law, administrative law and commercial all focused on local government and water businesses. Leading Principal Andrew Sherman was recognised as the 2014 Best Lawyers, Melbourne Water Law ‘Lawyer of the Year’. Russell Kennedy was named as winner of Best Provider to the Government and Community Sector in the BRW 2014 Client Choice Awards.

We regularly visit our clients to understand first-hand their operating environments, with a particularly strong client base in regional centres and rural communities.

Expertise in this team includes Planning, Environment and Building

• Statutory planning advice and representation extends from basic residential and multi-unit development matters through to detailed planning and environmental issues including contaminated site redevelopment.

• Our experience includes Environment Protection Authority (EPA) works approvals, licence approvals and research demonstration and development approvals in respect of landfills, composting facilities and prescribed industrial waste reuse.

subsequent planning permits, environmental assessments and the acquisition of the land, including by compulsion • Major projects for local government, which due to our broad skills base allows our lawyers with specific experience to be called upon, effectively on demand, to provide total or ‘one stop shop’ solutions Governance, administrative law and statutory interpretation

The local government sector in Victoria is almost permanently under the microscope as it is impacted by a myriad of legislation, policy, and social and economic factors. Russell Kennedy is making a difference to our local government clients representing their interests across all their organisational operations.

Russell Kennedy supports councils with delegations and authorisations to ensure that statutory procedures are appropriately carried out and powers are properly exercised. We act for councils in relation to special rate and charge schemes, assisting with reports to councils, and addressing councillors and local residents.

We advise on the application of National Competition Policy, including conducting local law audits, advising on the application of competitively neutral pricing principles to council operations, and advising industry bodies.

Our experience includes:

Our Experience Includes:

• Difficult and complex enforcement proceedings such as boarding houses, activities in green wedge zones and environmental enforcement related to contamination, odour and other nuisance related matters • Major strategic planning scheme amendments including rewrites of municipal strategic statements, local policies and other significant strategic changes • Planning and environmental issues associated with major site redevelopments (including those instigated by council). Proposals such as new industrial precincts, major freight and infrastructure facilities and the like, including the relevant planning scheme amendments, — 129 —

• Advising councils on meeting procedures, conflicts of interest, confidentiality and statutory interpretation issues, in respect of the Local Government Act and related legislation • Councillor conduct panels • Providing delegations and authorisations documentation • Advice on the qualifications of candidates and alleged breaches of the Local Government Act in council elections • Assisting councils with the commencement of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act, including developing a guidance manual on behalf of the Department of Health for use by council environmental health officers

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Level 39, Rialto South Tower, 525 Collins Street and Level 20, 385 Bourke Street. Melbourne VIC 300 P: +61 3 8080 3500 or +61 3 9670 6123 W: www.tglaw.com.au HR Contact Clare Lynch, People and Development Adviser E: clynch@tglaw.com.au Method of Application for Seasonal Clerkship Through firm website / cvMail

Thomson Geer

Method of Application for Graduate Traineeship Through firm website / cvMail

Clerkship Positions Available Positions Required: 15* Intake 1: TBC Intake 2: TBC Intake 3: TBC * 2014/2015 figures

Key Dates Intake 1: 17 November – 12 December 2015 Intake 2: January – February 2016 Intake 3: TBC Applications Open: Monday, 13 July 2015 Applications Close: Sunday, 16 August 2015 Interview Periods: Week commencing 14 September 2015 Offers Released: 13 October 2015 Additional Information Recruitment from Graduate Market: No Number of graduates recruited from clerking pool: 6 International students considered: No LIV Signatory: Yes Are final year students considered for clerkships: No

About Us

Thomson Geer is a large independent Australian corporate law firm. We have 80 Partners and another 250+ professionals operating out of our offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Our industry coverage includes clients in banking & finance, construction, energy & resources, healthcare, telecommunications, property development, wealth management, gaming & leisure, and media, broadcasting & entertainment. Our clients are ASX Top 200, major global foreign corporations, ASX Mid and Small Caps, Government Enterprises and large and medium private corporations.

Practice areas include:

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Banking & Finance Competition & Regulation Corporate & Advisory Employment, Workplace Relations & Safety Environment & Planning

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Intellectual Property Insurance Litigation & Dispute Resolution Mergers & Acquisitions Projects & Construction Property Restructuring & Insolvency Tax Technology

• Active Social Club • Workplace Giving Program • Salary packaging • Employee referral program • End of Month Drinks • End of Month Casual Friday • wellbeing@work • Corporate discounts and benefit • Fresh fruit delivered every morning • Health assessments and flu shots • Salary sacrificing options • Continuing professional development programme • Associated professional memberships and practising certificate fees • Remote network access for legal staff • Paid parental leave

The Law is an incredibly rewarding profession, but we recognise that it can also be demanding.

For this reason, we aim to maintain an environment that is friendly, collegiate and professionally stimulating.

What Is Your Firm’s Pro-Bono Policy?

Why join this firm? What distinguishes your firm from other firms?

The Law is an incredibly rewarding profession, but we recognise that it can also be demanding. For this reason, we aim to maintain an environment that is friendly, collegiate and professionally stimulating.

We work hard to enhance this culture through open and authentic communication, and by ensuring we are respectful and accountable to each other every day.

Our partners are approachable and accessible to our staff. Every Thomson Geer partner is committed to a set of principles which exemplify our open and supportive culture day-to-day. These principles are demonstrated by the partners’ support for our open door policy, and in the way they encourage the very best in every staff member of our firm.

Our clients are at the centre of everything we do; so it is not only the openness we demonstrate in our dealings with each other, but also the wellestablished and trusting relationships we have with our clients, that make Thomson Geer a great place to work.

What Extra-Curricular Benefits and Activities Does Your Firm Offer?

We know that wellbeing has a significant impact on motivation, morale and performance at work. Our wellbeing@work program supports all our people to maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle.

A snapshot of some of our benefits:

Thomson Geer is committed to pro bono and corporate social responsibility. We provide pro bono legal services across all our offices and have dedicated senior lawyers who take ownership of the program.

We currently nominate a target value of Pro Bono Work of 10% of all billable income from relevant Commonwealth legal work. We are also investigating subscribing to the National Pro Bono Resource Centre’s Aspirational Target.

Of particular note is the pro bono work we do in association with Cancer Council Australia. Thomson Geer provides a free service in assisting terminallyill cancer patients with their legal needs.

Thomson Geer is committed to pro bono and corporate social responsibility. We provide pro bono legal services across all our offices and have dedicated senior lawyers who take ownership of the program.

SEASONAL CLERKSHIPS

We offer a structured program where Clerks learn through a combination of hands-on experience, training, coaching and observation. All of our clerks have the opportunity to: • Attend client meetings • Observe court proceedings

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• Conduct legal research • Develop technical skills in areas such as drafting, due diligence and discovery • Participate in team meetings, training and continuing legal education programs What do you look for in a seasonal clerk?

At Thomson Geer we are looking for law students who have excelled academically, are client focused, commercially minded, and work well in a team environment.

CLERKSHIP APPLICATIONS

Please visit our website www.tglaw.com.au Applications Open: 13 July 2015 CONTACT DETAILS

Clare Lynch clynch@tglaw.com.au Description of the graduate program:

We run a 12 month graduate program which comprises three rotations in different practice areas.

At Thomson Geer we are looking for law students who have excelled academically, are client focused, commercially minded, and work well in a team environment.

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Banking and Finance Ellie Avis – Graduate Lawyer

The type of work and challenges involved in my practice group

Since I began in Banking and Finance the best thing that I have heard is that transactional lawyers ‘make things happen’. For me this has meant transitioning from learning ‘how things should operate’ to ‘how to make them work’. This type of work has a completely different flavour to anything experienced outside a practical context. It not only requires an understanding of the law and its interpretation, but also an ingrained awareness of commercial interests.

This is a constant challenge in my practice group-seeking to meet the expectations and demands of so many different stakeholders in what is often an extremely urgent time frame. It is fast paced and thrilling, in that there are so many groups dependent on what you do. And it is our role that secures all the moving parts of a deal into one cohesive and enforceable agreement.

Since starting my graduate year I have been involved in various types of deals, and different facets of those deals from drafting security to attending settlements and seeing things come to a successful end.

Since I began in Banking and Finance the best thing that I have heard is that transactional lawyers ‘make things happen’. For me this has meant transitioning from learning ‘how things should operate’ to ‘how to make them work’.

My role

Since starting my graduate year I have been involved in various types of deals, and different facets of those deals from drafting security to attending settlements and seeing things come to a successful end. A typical day for a graduate involves instructions on drafting from multiple lawyers, reviewing contracts, deeds, leases and agreements, researching regulation and structural requirements for different deal formats, and attending to settlement and registration. This being just a sample of the tasks I undertake, everything I am given contributes in some way to the work that is on foot with my entire team. It is demanding and the learning curve is steep, but it is infinitely gratifying seeing the outcome of the effort you put in.

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Practice Groups at Thomson Geer At Thomson Geer we offer our Seasonal Clerks and Graduates the opportunity to work in a number of areas. From day one, you’ll be an active participant, involved in all aspects of legal practice, and working directly with experienced practitioners. Here is some insight into three of our practice groups:

• Acquisitions and disposals • Construction • Conveyancing • Contract negotiations and preparation • Corporate and commercial transactions • Corporate real estate • Dispute resolution • Due Diligence • Environmental due diligence, advisory, and prosecutions • Joint ventures • Land divisions and titling • Commercial, industrial, and retail leasing • Planning advice • Property based tax advice • Property development • Property financing • Property management • Strata and community titling

Employment, Workplace Relations & Safety

Thomson Geer provides solutions for all employment, workplace relations, and safety matters.

We advise and assist on all matters including occupational health and safety, equal opportunity, employment contracts and agreements, recruitment and termination, good faith bargaining, and industrial relations.

Our clients include manufacturing companies, transport providers, financial services, insurance providers, retailers, communications and IT companies, building and construction companies, and health care providers.

Our employment, workplace relations, and safety services include: • Assisting employers to respond to critical workplace health and safety incidents and investigations • Designing employment change strategies • Drafting and negotiating enterprise and workplace agreements, employment contracts, and awards • Employment law training • Developing workplace health and safety policies, and compliance programs • Managing publicity-sensitive matters • Representing employers in relation to unfair dismissal, discrimination, and other employment claims Property

Thomson Geer provides focused advice on all property and real estate matters.

We advise and assist on matters associated with industrial estates, commercial buildings, residential land, shopping centres, golf courses, urban renewal projects, hotels, clubs, ports, airports, and rural properties.

Our clients include multi-national corporations, federal and state government, listed and unlisted property trusts, and privately held property developers and investors.

• Our property services include:

Banking & Finance

Thomson Geer provides advice on complex banking and finance transactions.

We advise and assist on matters including compliance, acquisitions, funds management, property and project finance, and superannuation.

Our client base includes banks, financial institutions, lenders, retail and wholesale fund managers, trustee companies, superannuation funds, stockbrokers, and insurance companies.

• Our banking and finance services include: • Acquisition finance • Capital markets • Compliance and risk management • Construction finance • Derivatives and financial products • Financial and regulatory advice • Financial Services Reform (FSR) • Loans and credit facilities • Managed Investment Schemes • Project and property finance • Securitisation • Structured finance

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