School's out, scream and shout! But how to while away those long summer days and hot summer nights?

By Ashton Darracott

Gender discrimination in the workplace is something that our society has been gradually (albeit slowly at times) working to achieve. Some say we’re almost there; some say we’re already there.

By Hannah (Burstow) Dowden

Mental health: it is one of the industry’s favourite buzzwords as conversations around mental health become less taboo and more candid than they have ever been before, both inside and beyond the workplace. The legal profession in particular is notorious for its long hours, the stressful nature of the work, and a system that evolves at a frustratingly slow pace. Depending on the area of law, legal practitioners are exposed to varying degrees of stressful and traumatic content, which has great potential to cause distress and worst case, psychological injury.

By Ashton Darracott

Amongst the chaos of coming back from an exchange over the mid-year break and getting back into semester 2 of my fourth year, I somewhat inadvertently fell into volunteering as a witness on a few occasions for the second Bar Practice Course this year. The Bar Practice Course, to analogise, is Practical Legal Training for wannabe barristers. If you are thinking of becoming a robe-rocking, wig-wielding advocate for a career, you will have to undertake this course.

By Ashton Darracott

Intimidated by the likes of Harvey Specter & Elle Woods? But do you really need that killer personality to own the courtroom?

By Hannah (Burstow) Dowden

Guiseppe Belli, an Italian poet, cried in the year 1838: ‘God save us from the tomato - es’. There are many things a 19th Century theatre might have in common with a modern courtroom. A noticeable example of this is the abundance of wigs and robes. But it may be sur - prising that also the throwing of tomatoes is also a shared trait.

By Alexandra Feeney

F or many law students, our perception of the legal profession is based predominantly on hours spent binge-watching TV lawyers shout “objection” across the courtroom sets of Suits, How to Get Away with Murder or, my personal favourite, The Good Wife. But do these captivating legal dramas provide an accurate image of what it means to advocate for a client in court? To help set the record straight, I sat down with three experienced Brisbane-based courtroom advocates, Jonathan Horton QC, barrister Edward Shorten, and King & Wood Mallesons Commercial Litigation partner Emma Costello.

By Morgan Lynch