From cold calling to securing a paralegal role at a global law firm, this law student shares essential tips and strategies every aspiring lawyer should use to land a position and kickstart their legal career.

Speaking on a recent episode of The Protégé Podcast, host Grace Robbie speaks with Victor Yan, a law student at UNSW and a paralegal at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSFK), shares his unconventional journey into the legal profession, opens up about how a simple cold email to HSFK led to him securing a paralegal role months later, and discusses the crucial importance of landing a paralegal position while still at university to gain the practical skills that academic study alone doesn’t provide.

Yan also emphasises the importance of first- and second-year law students taking proactive steps to secure their first paralegal roles, highlights common mistakes he often sees during the application process, outlines five key steps students should follow on their journey to landing a paralegal position, stresses the vital need to prioritise self-care and wellbeing throughout this challenging period, and shares encouraging advice for law students about to embark on this exciting yet daunting new chapter.

In this special episode of LawTech Talks, produced in partnership with Mary Technology, we flesh out the importance of building efficient workflows to overcome the inherent, chaotic elements of taking on new client matters.

Host Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Mary Technology chief executive and co-founder Daniel Lord-Doyle to discuss who Mary Technology is and the problems it is solving for legal professionals, what fact chaos is and why it’s such a challenge, what it means to have efficient workflows, and how urgent a priority fact chaos is for lawyers across the spectrum.

Lord-Doyle also delves into how the profession is responding to solutions to navigate fact chaos, the role of AI in overcoming such challenges, navigating trust barriers, unlocking new potential for lawyers to be more efficient moving forward, supporting rapid acceleration of efficiency, and the rewards that come with making an impact on practitioners’ operations.

With India looking to be the world’s third-largest economy by 2030, and with significant shifts occurring in its legal landscape and how it sees foreign investment, there are boundless opportunities not just for firms with an Australian presence but also for Australia-based practitioners.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Baker McKenzie’s Asia-Pacific investigations, compliance, and ethics group head Mini Menon vandePol, who also chair’s the global firm’s India practice, about how she utilises her name in the course of practice, her reflections on three decades with Bakers, what’s happening with the firm’s India practice, and how she is leading at a time of significant change for India.

She also delves into the challenges that global firms like Bakers face in gaining stronger footholds in India, as well as the inherent opportunities, what such changes to the landscape mean for Australia and its practitioners, how Australians should view the evolving legal landscape in India, and why she’s so excited by such change.