MOOT TRAINING
Please join us for a chance to practice your advocacy skills with some informal moot training. You can come and watch of prepare either side of the case.
For mooters it will be 10 minutes, save one minute for rebuttal for the appellant. One person per side, student judges.
Location: Justice Smith Reading Room level 2, Emily McPherson Building
Time: 4.30pm please come before class if you have class that night otherwise feel free to come any time before 6pm.
Dates
- Wednesday 9 March - First Problem available on the website
- Monday 21 March
- Monday 4 April
Please go to www.rmitlss.com/moot-training for the first scenario or
e-mail competitions@rmitlss.com
15 & 17 March - College of Law Client Interview Competitions
Times: 5.30pm - 8.30pm both nights
Location: College of Law, Level 6, 459 Little Collins St
A Client Interview, is just that, you are a newly admitted solicitor who has just been booked for a client interview with a very brief scenario usually no more than “Jimmy wants to talk to a lawyer about an altercation at a bar”. Your mission is to extract the key facts and apply the legal reasoning to advise the client, or as much as you can within the time limit.
The topic for the Client Interview Competition is Torts and we keep the law pretty basic. Preparation time is usually about one to two hours for you to check out a few videos on line and do a little research.
Each competitor will be allotted a 30 minute slot, and there are no spectators so no need to stress.
Registrations close 12 March.
The winner and runner-up will have the chance to represent RMIT at the National Championships at ALSA Conference in Hobart 4-10 July.
17 March at 6pm or 18 March at 1pm
Linklaters is at Allens to discuss clerkships in Australia, Hong Kong and London and their alliance with Allens.
Register here to attend
21 March - Trivia Night
Come along for a get-together with the LSS and have some fun doing trivia.
7:30 @ Blue Moon Bar, 380 Russell Street
Over $300 worth of prizes, great fun
ESSAY COMPETITION!
Did you write a kick-arse paper for Contract Law and now don’t know what to do with it? Want some serious bragging rights and the chance to compete with it nationally? Then enter the RMIT LSS Essay Competition.
You could win $250 and an award at our end of year event!
Students are encouraged to submit an academic paper between 3,000 and 12,000 words on ANY legal issue. Your paper needs to have been graded at 70% or above.
The top 3 papers may be submitted to ALSA’s National Essay Competition, where you could win $1,000 prize and national publication in ALSA's academic journal.
This competition is open to all RMIT JD students.
Commitment Level: Low
Preparation: None! You have already done it!
Competition time: None!
Applicable career: Written communication is key in every area of the legal sector!
Submit your essay through www.rmitlss.com/essay-competition
ENTRIES CLOSE 30 April 2016
Kind Regards,
Your LSS Committee
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