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law school gave you the syllabus.
here's the rest. 🧡
internships · careers · legal skills · firm survival · zero fluff
what are we surviving today? 😭
first year work in progress 🛠️

first year. zero experience. where exactly are you supposed to intern?

firm? NGO? chambers? research centre? somebody please provide a map.
coming soon →
first year work in progress 🛠️

your CV has education and… vibes. what goes on it in first year?

zero internships does not mean zero CV.
we're building this →
first year work in progress 🛠️

everyone joined a moot team. should you be panicking?

your first semester does not need seventeen extracurriculars.
hold that thought →
first year work in progress 🛠️

SCC Online opened. suddenly nothing makes sense. where do you even click?

your first legal database search should not require divine intervention.
coming soon →
first year work in progress 🛠️

how do you read a 94-page judgment without reading all 94 pages?

because page one to page ninety-four is not always the move.
we got you →
first year work in progress 🛠️

should you make LinkedIn in first year or is that deeply unserious?

yes, you can have a profile before you have a terrifying list of achievements.
soon soon →
first year work in progress 🛠️

everyone seems to know what corporate law is. do they actually?

spoiler: half the room is also guessing.
explanation loading →
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do you need certificates or actual skills? awkward question.

your Downloads folder may not be the career strategy.
coming soon →
first year work in progress 🛠️

what should you actually know before your first legal internship?

surprisingly, memorising the Constitution is not on the list.
we're writing it →
first year work in progress 🛠️

semester one and you're supposed to choose a “practice area”? relax.

you are allowed to not know what you want yet.
career crisis pending →
internship survival 6 min read

your senior said “research this.” what exactly are you supposed to send back?

you found 14 judgments. congratulations. they probably don't want 14 judgments.
figure this out →
internships work in progress 🛠️

cold email or LinkedIn DM: which one actually gets internships?

your “hope this email finds you well” era deserves answers.
coming soon →
internships work in progress 🛠️

you got the internship. what exactly are you supposed to do on day one?

apart from pretending you definitely know where the printer is.
survival guide loading →
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no reply after your internship application. follow up or disappear quietly?

there is a middle ground between silence and seven reminders.
coming soon →
internships work in progress 🛠️

“why do you want to intern with us?” apparently “because you're hiring” won't work.

let's build an answer that sounds like a human wrote it.
answer incoming →
internships work in progress 🛠️

should you ask for work or wait until someone remembers you exist?

the intern visibility problem is very real.
we're on it →
internships work in progress 🛠️

your internship ends Friday. how do you ask for feedback without making it weird?

yes, you should ask. no, not with a three-page self-assessment.
coming soon →
internships work in progress 🛠️

law firm interview tomorrow. what are they actually going to ask you?

probably not Article 21 from memory. probably.
interview prep loading →
internships work in progress 🛠️

you've done three internships. why does your CV still look empty?

maybe the problem isn't your experience. maybe it's how you're writing it.
CV surgery soon →
internships work in progress 🛠️

can you say “I don't know” when your senior gives you a task?

yes. but what comes after those three words matters.
we need to talk →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

“please mark up the draft.” cool. what does that even mean?

deleting everything you dislike is apparently not redlining.
survive this →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

your senior said “send me a brief note.” how brief is brief?

four paragraphs? four pages? emotional damage?
coming soon →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

your senior says “EOD.” whose end of day are we discussing exactly?

law firm vocabulary nobody formally teaches you.
dictionary loading →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

“sit in on the client call.” are you supposed to speak?

and more importantly: what are you supposed to write down?
soon →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

six files are called FINAL. which one is actually final?

welcome to version control: the unofficial horror genre.
fix incoming →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

your senior sent you a contract and said “review this.” help?

start with the deal. not the commas.
review smarter →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

how fast are you actually expected to reply to your senior's email?

immediately? fifteen minutes? before they send “?” 😭
email etiquette soon →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

someone said “check the CPs.” you nodded. now what?

sometimes corporate law is simply learning what the acronyms mean.
translation coming →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

“take minutes.” no, they don't mean transcribe the entire meeting.

what actually belongs in professional meeting minutes.
we're writing it →
firm survival work in progress 🛠️

when is it okay to ask your senior “what does that mean?”

pretending you understood can become much more embarrassing later.
coming soon →
careers work in progress 🛠️

corporate law vs litigation: what does your Tuesday actually look like?

forget job titles. what are you actually doing at 4:37 pm?
compare the chaos →
careers work in progress 🛠️

everyone says they want M&A. what does an M&A lawyer actually do?

beyond saying “deal” a suspicious number of times.
coming soon →
careers work in progress 🛠️

M&A, PE, VC. why does corporate law have so many letters?

same alphabet. very different work.
decode soon →
careers work in progress 🛠️

what does a banking & finance lawyer actually do all day?

there is more to it than loans and intimidating Excel sheets.
coming soon →
careers work in progress 🛠️

what does a competition lawyer actually compete in?

not a courtroom Hunger Games. promise.
explanation coming →
careers work in progress 🛠️

everyone has a “practice area.” you still like everything. now what?

apparently curiosity is not a career emergency.
figure it out →
careers work in progress 🛠️

do you actually need an LLM to become a better lawyer?

degree, skill, signalling or expensive side quest?
soon →
careers work in progress 🛠️

“why corporate law?” please don't say “because i like contracts.”

there are better answers. we promise.
interview prep soon →
careers work in progress 🛠️

what does an in-house lawyer do that a law firm lawyer doesn't?

same law degree. very different inbox.
coming soon →
careers work in progress 🛠️

Tier 1 firm, boutique or chambers: which one actually teaches you more?

prestige and learning are not always the same thing.
we're getting there →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

you found 17 cases. does your senior actually want all 17?

collecting cases is not the same thing as researching.
learn the filter →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

how do you know whether a case is still good law?

because “Google showed it first” is not enough.
coming soon →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

facts, issue, ratio, obiter — what are you actually looking for in a judgment?

one judgment. four different things hiding inside it.
soon →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

what does “tighten this clause” actually mean?

shorter is not automatically tighter. drafting has entered the chat.
coming soon →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

how do you turn six pages of research into one useful paragraph?

summarising is a legal skill. deleting randomly is not.
we're writing it →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

due diligence gave you 400 documents. where do you even start?

the VDR is not asking to be opened alphabetically.
DD survival soon →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

you found 14 DD red flags. do all 14 go into the report?

materiality exists for a reason.
soon →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

how do lawyers read contracts without reading every clause the same way?

some clauses deserve ten seconds. some deserve thirty minutes.
coming soon →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

legal drafting sounds smart until nobody understands the sentence.

complicated language is not proof of complicated thinking.
draft better soon →
legal skills work in progress 🛠️

when should you stop researching and actually start writing?

at some point “one more case” becomes procrastination with citations.
coming soon →
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yes, it's a word now.

lawwhelmed

adjective
/law-welmd/
When law school, internships, readings, deadlines and the terrifying phrase “please research this” hit you at the same time. 😭
see also: 17 open tabs · FINAL_final_v3.docx · SCC Online at 1:14 AM · “quick task” from your senior