Staying Informed - Law Institute of Victoria

Law Institute Journal 01 Mar 2021

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Karin Derkley 23 Jul 2020

Nearly 10,000 LIV members, including a record number of regional and suburban practitioners, have attended digital activities offered by the LIV during COVID-19...

Education

More recognition for Accredited Specialists

Karin Derkley 21 Jul 2020

Accredited Specialists will seek more recognition from the regulator for their expertise and experience and be better supported to market themselves, in changes adopted by the LIV...

Education

A Forced Opportunity - COVID-19 and the Future of E-Learning

Jade Hopper 15 May 2020

Now, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all universities across Australia are moving students to e-learning facilities for the foreseeable future. This change will make many students feel uncomfortable and unsure of how they can learn effectively in an online environment – one without the security and solidarity of fellow students and professors in a typical classroom setting. Understandably, for many students, this unplanned environment may create an apprehensive and distressing learning scenario, leaving them feeling overwhelmed and isolated.

Education Students

Speaking up for justice

Karin Derkley 01 Oct 2019

Speech pathologists are increasingly working with the justice system to help people with language disorders...

Education Young Persons

Lunchtime Learning: Food for Thought

Laura E Fox 28 Jun 2019

Earlier this year, the Law Institute of Victoria launched the first of our Lunchtime Learning series...

Education Lunchtime Learning Series Networking

Deakin Law School/LIV arrangement recognises prior learning

Karin Derkley 26 Jun 2019

LIV Accredited Specialists will be able to complete a Master of Laws at Deakin law School in half the time and at half the cost under a new reciprocal arrangement between the two...

Education Students

In_print

Law Institute Journal 01 Apr 2019

This month we review books covering elder law, criminal law, business management and the tragic story of the Churchill fire...

Education

Maximise your employability in law

Sach Fernando 22 Nov 2018

It was my penultimate year of law school and I had completed clerkships at three major law firms – Allens, Lander and Rogers and Middletons (now K&L Gates)...

Education Occupations Young Persons

Call for corporate mentors

Karin Derkley 03 Sep 2018

For former commercial lawyer Steve Clifford, running Doxa’s cadetship program is a rewarding way to help young people achieve their goals...

Education Legal Biography Mentoring Young Persons

June LIJ flipbook

Law Institute Journal 01 Jun 2018

Welcome to the June LIJ flipbook. You can turn pages electronically, magnify type and click through to editorial content, LIV goods and services and upcoming events and advertising...

Communication Education

LIV calls for regulation to ensure migration agents are suitably qualified

Migration Law Committee 18 Apr 2018

In a memo to the Law Council of Australia, the Law Institute of Victoria has recommended that changes be made to the current regulation process to ensure that migration agents are suitably qualified and have the requisite necessary experience...

Education Migration Law

Law Council of Australia: Future in focus for 2018

Morry Bailes 01 Feb 2018

The LCA will continue to advocate vigorously at a federal level to achieve positive reform. The future of access to justice in the rural, regional and remote communities will also be a priority...

Education Planning Practice & Procedure

LIV Academy Review - Business Law

Andrew Tsirikis 22 Nov 2017

Andrew Tsirikis, Lawyer at Foster Nicholson Lawyers, recently attended the Business Structuring workshop in the LIV’s Academy Series in Business Law and writes of his experience of the session...

Continuing Legal Education Education