Opportunities
LexisNexis AI Summit: Business Impact Beyond the Hype
Professionals are seeing true value through AI-driven transformation. This half-day summit brings together legal innovations, tech leaders, and AI experts to explore what's working, what's next, and how to cut through the noise. If you're ready to move from buzzwords to business results, this is the event for you.
What you will gain from the AI Summit:
See how generative and agentic AI are reshaping legal workflows with intuitive interfaces and smarter outcomes.
How legal teams are aligning innovation with governance and compliance—without slowing down.
Hear from enterprises who have gone beyond pilots to scalable AI adoption—and what it takes to get there.
How to integrate AI tools to your daily workflow for more personalised outcomes.
Next Gen Legal Leaders’ Summit - Be one step ahead
Following success in 2024, we’re pleased to announce Next Gen Legal Leaders’ Summit is back! The leading industry event designed for junior lawyers and ambitious law students will take place in Sydney on 22 May 2025.
Backed by Thomson Reuters, the summit provides an unparalleled opportunity for the eager law students to participate in leading conversations, and equip themselves with the most forward knowledge and thinking from legal industry experts while opening up networking and mentorship opportunities.
This event is not to be missed for those who are keen to establish their selves as leaders and change-makers in the legal industry.
More information on speakers, agenda, and content to come!
Last year, we welcomed ambitious law students from leading universities in Sydney, including Macquarie University and UNSW. We are looking forward to meeting more of you this year!
Get in now to secure your place and get a step ahead in your legal career. Attendees will gain up to 6 CPD points.
Student tickets available now!
ANU Law Students’ Society Constitutional Law Moot
The ANU Law Students’ Society is proud to host the 2025 Sir Harry Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot, Australia’s leading national constitutional law mooting competition for university students.
Registrations will open June 10th for the competition, to be held from 3rd to 6th October 2025 at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Since its inception in 2002, the Gibbs Moot has earned a reputation as a premier forum for aspiring advocates to grapple with complex and often topical questions of constitutional law.
Each year, the competition challenges participants to prepare written and oral submissions on a hypothetical case grounded in live constitutional issues. Many moot problems have been crafted by current and former High Court Justices and Solicitors-General, ensuring the moot’s continued rigour and relevance.
Named in honour of Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs GCMG AC KBE QC, who served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1970 and as Chief Justice from 1981 to 1987, the moot continues to celebrate his enduring legacy in Australian constitutional jurisprudence.
Anticipated Dates
Registration Open: 10 June 2025
Registration Closed: 10 August 2025
Problem Question Release: 18 August 2025
Written Submissions due: 18 September 2025
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5th National Indigenous Empowerment Summit
Indigenous education, employment, and economic development are deeply interconnected, with each element playing a crucial role in empowering communities and achieving Closing the Gap targets.
By embedding cultural integrity and governance within these areas, individuals and communities are provided with sustainable self-determination pathways that enhance overall wellbeing and drive long-term social and economic outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
The 5th National Indigenous Empowerment Summit platforms culturally rooted solutions to dismantle barriers and advance success across education, employment and economic development.
This event promotes strategies to strengthen Indigenous students’ engagement and in education through whole-school approaches and aims to expand career opportunities through tailored employment pathways and professional development.
This transformative event brings together leaders, change makers, and entrepreneurs across Indigenous education, employment, and economic development to foster collaboration and advance meaningful outcomes for First Nations communities.
You can register for this event at this link:
https://secure.akolade.co/registration/event?eventcode=SOC28EM25
Department of Home Affairs Summer Clerkship Program
The Department of Home Affairs invites enthusiastic law students to apply for our Summer Clerkship Program. Our program is a compelling opportunity to engage with a large and vibrant in-house government legal practice over the 2025-26 summer break. The program runs for 12 weeks, from mid-to-late November 2025 through early February 2026, and will welcome up to 20 talented law students eager to gain invaluable experience working in a large and dynamic in-house government legal practice.
What We Offer:
Joining the Department of Home Affairs means becoming part of a mission dedicated to building a safe and prosperous nation. As a Summer Clerk, you will enjoy numerous benefits, including:
Making a Meaningful Impact: Contribute to projects that serve the community and enhance national security and prosperity.
Being Part of an Innovative team of professionals: Collaborate within a dynamic and connected team at the forefront of pressing legal issues.
Career Growth: Receive competitive remuneration at the APS2 level while developing your legal skills and career trajectory.
Being Part of an Authentic Workplace: Experience a workplace culture that values diversity and encourages work-life balance, with numerous initiatives promoting employee wellbeing.
Professional Development: Attend seminars and activities designed to deepen your understanding of the Department’s operations and expand your professional network.
Course Credit: Potential eligibility for course credit from your university.
Hands-On Learning: Work alongside experienced legal practitioners in a fast-paced environment that promises bespoke legal training.
Practice Areas:
Clerks will have the opportunity to be involved in various practice areas within the Legal Group, including:
Litigation
Migration and Citizenship Law
Customs and Trade Law
National Security Law
Information Law
Commercial Law
Legislative Development
As a Summer Clerk, you may also be exposed to court procedures, research tasks, drafting legal instruments, and providing legal advice, ensuring an enriching and comprehensive learning experience.
Upon successful completion of the Summer Clerkship, clerks may be offered continued employment as a legal officer or paralegal, accommodating students’ university schedules (typically 2-3 days per week).
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible for the program candidates must:
• Be an Australian Citizen.
• Be in their penultimate or final year of law school (undergraduate or juris doctor)
• Be willing to obtain and maintain a Baseline AGSVA security clearance (funded by the Department)
• Be willing to obtain and maintain an Employment Suitability Clearance (ESC) (funded by the Department)
We are looking for candidates who can:
• Adapt to and learn new systems
• Efficiently manage administrative tasks
• Uphold record-keeping obligations, and other departmental policies
• Be present for the entire 12 weeks of the clerkship in the ACT.
APPLICATION PROCESS
To apply, please email the following documents to legal.careers@homeaffairs.gov.au :
• A copy of your CV (no more than 2 pages, including references);
• A copy of your most recent Statement of Results/Academic Transcript; and
• A one page response detailing your motivations for applying and how you can contribute to our Summer Clerkship program.
Applications close at 11.59pm on Friday 4 July 2025.
Please ensure your submission is clear and effectively connected to the Department’s functions. Applications will be evaluated based solely on your written materials—no interviews are scheduled. Successful candidates will be contacted in the following weeks.
For more information about the Home Affairs Summer Clerkship 2025-26, please call Sharika Patel at 0410 157 657 or email legal.careers@homeaffairs.gov.au
Embark on a rewarding summer with the Department of Home Affairs and shape the future of Australian law and the public service!
AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF LAW
NOTICE OF ANNUAL ESSAY PRIZE 2025
The Australian Academy of Law invites you to submit an essay for its 2025 Annual Essay Prize.
The Prize is open to anyone, wherever resident, who is studying or has studied legal subjects at a tertiary level, or who is working or has worked in a law-based occupation.
There is no limit by reference to the age or seniority or experience of, or position held by, a person who may submit an entry. Accordingly, law students, legal academics, legal practitioners and judicial officers are all eligible to submit an essay.
The amount of the Prize is $10,000.
The essay topic for the Prize in 2025 is as follows:
Where has Bird v DP [2024] HCA 41 (‘Bird’) left the law of vicarious liability in Australia? How does it differ from the law in other common law jurisdictions? Should there be a legislative response to Bird and, if so, what should be its scope?
The length of the essay to be submitted is a maximum of 8,000 words (excluding the abstract).
The deadline for the submission of an essay is 31 August 2025 and this time limit is strictly observed, as the Rules governing the Annual Essay Prize make clear.
Essays should be submitted to the Secretariat at the Australian Academy of Law aalsecretariat@academyoflaw.org.au
The Rules can be accessed on the Academy’s website:
https://www.academyoflaw.org.au/Essay-Prize-Rules
You should also refer to the Academy’s website for further information about the actual submission of an entry as well as information on previous winners.