Recent content by El Misterio

Re: A serious question!!! I need an answer ASAP I also have a serious question and need a serious answer ASAP. Luka, do you live on the second floor?

You couldn't be more wrong.

Is this best done by complaining anonymously and presenting distorted tales of big firm life on a blog and in the legal media?

If you have to ask, you're already beyond help.

I'm sure it's a fine law school with good-quality teaching, but if you're intent on practicing in a top-tier, boutique, or even upper-mid-tier commercial firm, it's going to be a lot more difficult to get there from UWS than from USYD, UNSW, UTS, Club Mac and ANU, or even Wollongong or Newcastle.

How pathetic.

That was fairly entertaining, although the image of the "osmosis school of learning... coming home to roost" is a tad clumsy. At least he didn't start banging on about split infinitives.

Agreed. I know some people who are determined to achieve "work-life balance" and are more than prepared to leave the profession / private practice to get it, but also many who fall into the "whatever it takes" camp. I suspect it has always been thus.

Well there's more there than can be properly addressed in one post, but I would say that there are limits to what can be done to achieve "work-life balance" in top-flight commercial practice. There's no way around it: if you want to do high-quality, interesting work and make a career out of it...

As high an average as you can manage.

1. The tort of negligence is not restricted to situations involving personal injury. 2. There are torts other than the tort of negligence.

So sayeth the first year student. You will recant before the end of your penultimate year.

http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/cstudent/undergrad/graduation_list.shtml

While you're entitled to hate torts as much as you like, it should be pointed out that tort law comes up in commercial legal situations all the time, and it isn't only personal injury lawyers that need to have a strong command of the area. That said, universities do, unfortunately, tend to...

Wheredanton, no partner at any law firm in Australian charges $1200 an hour. The top tax partners at AAR might charge around 65% of that. ABL does that well because its lawyers work extremely hard - it's got a reputation in the industry as requiring the longest hours of any firm in the...