Hooray - I just submitted the last piece of work for my law degree

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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An assignment on indigenous people and Australia’s intellectual property laws.

So that’s it. After five and a half years of part-time study I have finished my law degree.

My sense of relief is HUGE.

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Great, now you can work on a user name that doesn’t sound like a redneck sex organ. :smiley:

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Good for you. If there’s one thing this world needs it’s more lawyers.

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Dictator? Oh, wait…

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Congrats Cunctator!

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Congrats! Having recently submitted my thesis and received my MA, I know exactly how you feel. May you wield your law degree for the forces of good and not evil. :wink:

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Congratulations! I hope you find it useful in your future endeavors.

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Congratulations! What is your next step?

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Thanks everyone.

Nothing at the moment. I’m just going to enjoy not having to study for a while. I may go on and take the necessary steps to be admitted as a solicitor, but I haven’t really decided yet. There’s no great hurry.

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Excellent!

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Congratulations, Cunctator! So, how long does articling as a solictor take? Can you combine that with your current job?

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were you on the accelerated program with bricker?

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Congratulations, Cunctator - I hope you have many happy years of legal practice.

By the way, help out an ignorant American, will you? Is there still a difference between a solicitor and barrister? I seem to recall at one time, only barristers could do actual trial work - is that now, or was it ever, correct?

Oh, and Dennis - that was uncalled-for, man.

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That alone should be worth a degree in patience, determination and law.
Congtrats.

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Keep you personal gripes with other posters in the Pit, dennis gallagher. Do not drag it to other fora.

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There are three basic requirements for admission as a solicitor:

  1. a “practical” legal training course, lasting 15 weeks full-time (30 weeks part-time) undertaken at the College of Law. I gather it’s sort of like one last semester where you concentrate on “doing” the legal stuff e.g. I know all about the doctrines of estate, tenure and registration under the Torrens system, but what is the actual process involved in conveying title?

  2. Work experience of at least 15 weeks under the supervision of a solicitor (which I could do at my current job)

  3. Various CPE bits and pieces.

The distinction between barristers and solicitors is still maintained in some Australian jurisdictions. New South Wales, where I am, is one of them. Other Australian states operate with a fused legal profession.