Life
Volunteering in your legal community
By Lauren Yeo Volunteering not only grows your personal skills and is an awesome thing to get involved with at university; it can also help to hone your legal skills, and give you some real life legal experience whilst still Read more…
Life
Resilience for Law Students – when does stress become more serious?
Umbrella Health and Resilience give some tips on how to recognise when stress becomes more serious
Law
Eyes in the Sky: Threats to Notions of Privacy
“The predominant issue with the current framework is that while it imposes a ‘transparency’ framework and a consent requirement for the collection of sensitive information…”
Careers, Study and Well-being
Millennials and Generation Z: We have to use the phone
Readers, I have been on a journey. I invite you to join me for a recap. I recently gave a talk to senior lawyers about being a human and a manager of lawyers. One of the topics I was anxious Read more…
Learn
Preparing for Law Exams
Preparing for your Law Exams? Richard Scragg offers some top advice for exam survival.
Learn
Research skills: An overview of LexisNexis® Advance
These research skill videos provide a quick overview of specific tasks or functionality that students may find useful when researching within the LexisNexis® NZ platform. A quick overview of LexisNexis® Advance NZ You can find videos for other LexisNexis resources Read more…
A Day in the Life of
A Day in the Life of… an Associate specialising in Māori legal issues
Rachel Mullins tells us about her life after law school, working in the Māori Land Court and the Waitangi Tribunal
Law
NZLJ Student Companion: Statutory Interpretation
This Student Companion by Christopher Walshaw is from the March 2017 edition of the New Zealand Law Journal
Law
Legal Design Thinking
Legal Design Thinking By Erika Ly, The Legal Forecast There is immense curiosity in the concept of ‘design thinking’ in the innovation literature. Yet, for a phrase so ubiquitous, it is often misunderstood by lawyers. In practice, design thinking Read more…
Careers, Study and Well-being
Engage with the Difficulty
Most hard things are off-putting to most people. We experience things as difficult because parts of our brains and bodies say, “No, no, not this; try anything else”. Feelings like unease and anxiety come up, and often self-criticism. But complex things take time and repeated engagement to learn.
