Hi, I'm Jason
and for the past four years, I’ve helped hundreds of new and aspiring solicitors build foundations for successful and sustainable careers in law.
As a first-generation lawyer, I had no idea what to expect in a legal career. My parents migrated from China and worked in IT. I went to public schools, not fancy private schools. And I was pretty average at law school exams.
So to find any sort of edge – I put all my effort into getting work experience and figuring out what being a lawyer was like in practice.
Over the years, I’ve worked:
- at a small suburban law firm;
- at a community legal centre;
- in-house at a charity;
- as a paralegal through to associate at a national law firm;
- on secondments to large corporate clients; and
- now, as an associate at an international law firm.
There was a lot of trial and error (so, so much error…) – but I was also lucky enough to get great mentoring from a bunch of amazing lawyers.
Here’s how you can get a quick heads up on real-life lawyering:
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