Law Student Gazette

1. Seminars at the Law Chambers

Westlaw and Lexis Basics

Westlaw and Lexis are two of the world’s largest legal databases.  They contain hundreds of full text journals and primary sources from the UK, US, Canada and other jurisdictions. Sandra Pyke from the Law Library will be conducting sessions at the Law Chambers to help students (any staff who are interested are most welcome too)  to get the best from these databases.

This session is aimed at later year JD, LLM and SJD students and staff.

Friday 4th November from 9.00am – 10.00 am

Please bring a laptop if you have one.

Bookings will be available via the online class booking system:

https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/library/

Legislative Research Refresher

Want a refresher in legislative research? Come to this session to learn more about locating and updating legislation, finding commencement dates, locating extrinsic materials, legislative tracking and more…

This session is aimed at later year JD, LLM and SJD students.

Friday 4th November from 12.00pm – 1.00 pm

Please bring a laptop if you have one.

Bookings will be available via the online class booking system:

https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/library/

Clerkship skills tune-up

Improve your legal research and writing skills for your summer, or winter, clerkship in this hands-on session. Practise these skills and hear Clerkship experiences from your fellow students. This session has been designed to refine skills which will assist during your clerkship and includes research and writing exercises and transition to work. Law firms use clerkships to identify students to take into their traineeship program. Make yours the best clerkship ever.

Friday 11th November from 3.00pm – 5.00 pm

Please bring a laptop if you have one

Bookings will be available via the online class booking system:

https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/library/

2. Seminars at Clayton Campus

Clerkship skills tune-up

Improve your legal research and writing skills for your summer, or winter, clerkship in this hands-on session. Practise these skills and hear Clerkship experiences from your fellow students. This session has been designed to refine skills which will assist during your clerkship and includes research and writing exercises and transition to work. Law firms use clerkships to identify students to take into their traineeship program. Make yours the best clerkship ever.

Monday 21st November from 2.00pm – 4.30 pm

Please bring a laptop if you have one.

Bookings will be available via the online class booking system:

https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/library/