QUTLS COMMITTEE UPDATE

QUTLS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE UPDATE

QUTLS EDUCATION

The Education Portfolio’s year started off on the right foot with our annual Clerkship Symposium going ahead to great success, informing students on the different clerkship opportunities and process overall. Unfortunately, COVID hit us hard and we were forced to cancel our Meet the Profession event just a week before it was meant to go ahead. To compensate for not being able to run some of the quality events that we had planned in semester one, we have moved a student favourite event Technology, Innovation and the Law into semester two. Additionally, we are hopefully looking to run our usual semester two events including our criminal law information evening, “What is PLT?”, and “Getting Your Foot in the Door”. Finally, we have been working hard with the law faculty and the unit co-ordinators to create an internal elective platform for students to access. The platform will hopefully have additional videos/FAQs from the co-ordinators detailing additional details about the unit. This will enable students to better understand an elective before adding it to their study plan, which ensures that all students will study units that align with their learning style and potential career path.

The Diversity, Culture & Wellbeing portfolio has been hard at work organising some exciting events! Over the next few weeks, you can expect to see a First Years Introductory Q&A Panel and out Women in Law Breakfast event, along with many others. The Q&A Panel will feature current students and Staff who will be answering your burning questions! This is one-stop how-to pass law school guide! This event will be going online towards the end of July! Our Women in Law Breakfast is an event we hold every year to celebrate the achievements of Women within the Legal Profession. With over 60% of our law graduates being female and with the appointment of the first female Australian High Court Chief Justice, we believe this is an excellent opportunity to show support for female practitioners. This event will be taking place in late August. You can also expect to see some amazing Pride content coming in the month of September! You can catch us taking over the socials or hanging out on campus for a quick coffee catch up! Keep your eyes peeled to our Facebook Page to stay up-to-date with our events or shoot an email through to director.dcw@qutlawsociety.com

QUTLS COMPETITIONS

Huge congratulations to surviving the rollercoaster of a semester that was semester 1 2020! Whilst COVID-19 restrictions brought Australia and the world to a stand-still, the QUTLS Competitions Team refused to be stopped and were able to hold three incredibly competitive and successful online competitions, the: • QUT PLT Negotiation; and • The Clayton Utz First Year Moot. Even with these competitions being carried out online for the first time in QUTLS history, the calibre of competitors this year really did exceed all expectations. The spectacular and awe-inspiring advocacy skills of this years First Year Mooters really had our Competitions Team glued to their headphones during those intense and exhilarating moots in the Zoom Court room. Big shoutout to all those who rose to the challenge and competed in our competitions, we really hope to see you again soon! To those who competed, I hope that our competitions allowed you all learn and develop those ever-important legal advocacy, researching and negotiating skills! More importantly, I hope you all had a blast competing. Don’t forget, you can now add that extra-curricular line for your resume and LinkedIn profile! This semester, we will be running the King and Wood Mallesons All Students Moot; the MinterEllision Junior Moot, Corrs Chambers Westgarth Client Interview and Ashurst Open Moot, with the Junior Moot taking place between Weeks 3 and 4. This is a chance for both our first years and later year students to learn more about advocacy and put their skills to practice with a real-world problem. Keep an eye out for registrations on our Facebook page! (All of our upcoming events can be seen in our Sem 2 O-Week video on Facebook too!)

QUTLS SPORTS & HEALTH

Amidst the chaos of this year the Sport and Health Portfolio had to take a little initiative in Semester 1 as to how we could provide for the QUT Law Society members considering social distancing is not very conducive to sport. Our team was able to organise free zoom health and fitness sessions twice a week until the end of the semester which turned out to be a hit. We got in contact with local businesses and individuals that had been affected by the pandemic to provide free sessions including fitness, yoga, pilates and even juggling. Last semester while different to usual was still a great semester for the Sport and Health Portfolio. We are excited for a bit of normalcy to come in Semester 2! To start off this semester we will be opening registration for social sports on 20 July to kick off the semester. The sports that we have registered for are Touch Football (on Monday’s), Netball (on Thursday’s) and Soccer (on Sunday’s). These social sports will run weekly. We encourage everyone to get involved and register for the teams. This is a great opportunity to meet new people and to stay active. Another great opportunity to get active with some fellow law students is the Soccer Grudge match between the UQLS and QUTLS. This will be a friendly competition where we crush the UQLS on their own fields in soccer. There will be food provided and an all round great time so be sure to get involved. Now onto the Health side of the portfolio we are excited to announce we will be running the Mental Health Awareness breakfast in September 2020. We have some amazing speakers lined up to speak at this free breakfast. We would love to see you there on R U OK Day to spread awareness about mental health, especially within the legal profession. Additionally we will be providing exam stress packs with goodies to help get you through exams. Keep an eye out on the QUTLS page and the QUTLS Sport facebook page for further information on each of these events.

First Year Pizza Party

QUTLS COMPETITIONS

Competition Winners:

Negotiation winners:

Sarah Sheppard Olivia Lambert

Negotiation Runners Up:

Renee Stevens Jolie Beckett

FYM winners: Isabelle Holder Sophie Rawlins

FYM Runners Up:

Jake Scott Cameron Desfontaines Friday Socials on Facebook

QUTLS EVENTS

The events portfolio is working hard to bring you as many exciting opportunities as possible while sticking to regulations. We are still looking into options for hosting a Law Ball in semester 2 as well as making our end of semester drinks, Letsgetrekt, bigger and better than ever!