You may be wondering what the new card you received with your membership keyring is.<\/p>\n
It is an exciting new initiative with all Victorian LSSs to create one discount card to be used across Melbourne.<\/p>\n
On Clayton campus, the card is accepted at Artichoke & Whitebait and Taste Baguette for a 10% discount.<\/p>\n
For a full list of discounts, visit\u00a0thevlcard.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n After selling out at Perth’s Fringe World,\u00a03 Course Comedy<\/a><\/strong> debuts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival featuring Monash law graduate\u00a0Michael Shafar <\/strong>and current student\u00a0David Rose<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Between them they have made two RAW Comedy State Finals, written for Cracked.com, hosted the TV show\u00a0The Leak<\/em> and failed Torts B.<\/p>\n Use the discount code ‘LSS’ for a 20% when booking online\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Each year the Business Law Section offers three scholarships of $5000 to the writer of the best papers in fields of Competition, Corporations and Taxation Law.<\/p>\n The scholarships are targeted to \u2018early career\u2019 legal professionals with less than four years of professional experience in the legal field of their paper. In the past winners have come from across academia, business and government sectors.<\/p>\n These scholarships are well suited to any Honours or research student who has previously written on a topic in one of the available fields.<\/p>\n Entries close Sunday 31 July at 5.00pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For more information please click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n This series will allow penultimate students to hear from partners from two different practise areas: Transactional and Advisory and Litigation.<\/p>\n The panels will involve a one hour question and answer format with the chance to mingle afterwards.<\/p>\n The Corporate Transaction Law<\/strong> seminar <\/strong>will attended by Ashurst, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and King & Wood Mallesons.<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Tuesday 19 April 2016<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 6.00pm – 8.00pm<\/p>\n Location: <\/strong>Monash University Law Chambers, Level 1, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne<\/p>\n The Litigation\/Dispute Resolution seminar <\/strong>will be attended by Baker & McKenzie, Gilbert + Tobin, Herbert Smith Freehills, Allens and Minter Ellison.<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Wednesday 27 April 2016<\/p>\n Time: <\/strong>6.00pm – 8.00pm<\/p>\n Location: Monash University Law Chambers, Level 1, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne<\/p>\n To register for either seminar please click\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Please note:<\/strong> you must be a LSS member to register, and will only be able to attend one of the two seminars. Preference will be given to penultimate students. Confirmation emails will be sent after registrations are processed.<\/p>\n 2016 sees the return of Charity Dinner, supporting the Tristan Jepson Foundation<\/a>. It will include dinner, drinks and entertainment.<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Thursday 28 April 2016<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 7.30pm<\/p>\n Venue:<\/strong> La Di Da, 577 Little Bourke St, Melbourne<\/p>\n Ticket sales<\/strong> will occur on Tuesday 5 April 2016<\/strong> from 9.00am in the Law Basement, Clayton Campus.<\/p>\n Do not miss this event. For more information, please refer to the Facebook event<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Domestic violence features heavily in the media every week, with at least 1 in 3 women across the world facing domestic violence in their lifetime.<\/p>\n However, many of us do not understand what domestic violence is in a legal context. What is family violence? How does the law operate to prevent it? What can we do as lawyers to help victims of abuse?<\/p>\n The LSS has organised an informative seminar to educate you of these matters.<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Tuesday 5 April 2016<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 1.00pm<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> E6, 23 College Walk (Building 60 \u2013 Engineering), Monash Clayton Campus<\/p>\n VWL will be presenting a panel discussion with Maurice Blackburn on legal responses to non-consensual distribution of private sexual material.<\/p>\n This is an issue that disproportionately affects women, and which many of us have only recently begun to understand as an emerging form of family violence and sexual assault.<\/p>\n Proposed reforms to the law intend to make it unlawful to share, or threaten to share, private sexual material.<\/p>\n Our speakers will discuss such reforms and invite you to consider legal amendments.<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Wednesday 6 April 2016<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 5.30pm registration for a 6.00pm start<\/p>\n Location: <\/strong>Maurice Blackburn, Level 10, 456 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne<\/p>\n For more information and to register for the event please click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Do you want to be mentored by a legal professional?<\/p>\n Are you a keen Monash JD student looking for guidance from some of the most brilliant legal minds in Australia?<\/p>\n If yes, then this program is for you! Places are limited so don’t waste time!<\/p>\n The JD Professional Mentoring Program is back for its third year running, following on from its huge success in previous years.<\/p>\n The program will commence with a Networking evening on\u00a0Wednesday 25 May 2016<\/strong> (Location TBC), where mentors and successful mentee applicants will be invited to meet and greet.<\/p>\n Registration is now open.<\/p>\n Students of all year levels are invited to apply, but preference will be given to penultimate year JD students.<\/p>\n2. Discount Comedy Festival tickets<\/h2>\n
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3. Law Council of Australia Scholarships: Business Law<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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1. JD Professional Mentoring Program: apply now<\/h2>\n