BLAWG and other flimflam.

So it's now the business end of the semester. I am currently catching up on Week 10's lectures in Contract Law, and writing work for my assignment, including questions that I am sending to various lawyers regarding billing practices, to which a couple have been good enough to reply so far.

I have been quite sick for the last week and have therefore not been so engaged with my usual haunts of work and uni. However, even then I have managed to be reasonably productive, with a presentation and a plan for my assignment worked out and the eventual aim for its publication in a Law Journal to be sorted out.

By the end of this semester I anticipate being half-way through my law degree. Through doing Summer Subjects, I anticipate being even further through the degree, with 15/26 subjects completed by February,  followed by 2 subjects in both first and second semesters, with another 2 (or Professional Practice equivalent) completed by Feb 2011, which will leave me with 4 subjects to complete in 2011, which will be my final year. I anticipate that this will not be easy, and that it will be less and less easy as I approach the end. However, taking two subjects a semester does give me better chance to focus upon them.

If all continues in this fashion, I will complete a practicing certificate while working full-time over  an additional (2012), so I will be ready for an associateship at a firm by 2013. I will however be applying for standard (non-legal) graduate positions in 2011, and may take them on in 2012, leaving myself the option through having a completed law degree of gaining the practicing certificate at a later stage.

I am currently developing other career opportunities with experience in Market Research and IT sales, and am re-starting my still-born writing career with a piece recently published in Clayton's Law, and one being worked on for the Alternative Law Journal (http://www.altlj.org/), which together with undergraduate pieces published in 2004, 2005, and editorial experience from 2005-2006, places me in a reasonably strong position - at least as far as extracurricular activity goes.
I also have recent experience volunteering at the Monash Family Law Assistance Program, and am looking to re-start that over summer.



Anyway, it's time for me to get back to work.

That's how it flies at this stage of the game.