Become the lawyer you want to be.
Law school teaches you the law. Lawgistics helps you learn what it is like to practise it: a legal internship in a Malaysian law firm, court visits, real files, and a different legal system to the one you are being taught.
Real firms. Real lawyers. Real exposure.
Nobody learns to practise by reading about practice. You learn it by sitting in the room where a matter is decided, drafting something that gets filed, and watching what happens when the other side does not reply.
Into court
Court twice a week on the internship, with the lawyers running the matter rather than with a guide.
Work that is real
Live files, drafting and research for a firm that has to file it. Not a simulation, and not the back of the room.
Something of your own
A written comparison of Malaysian and Australian law you can hand an employer, and the habit of having a view.
Four weeks in Kuala Lumpur.
Real files and court visits
At Thomas Philip Advocates and Solicitors, a civil litigation firm in Kuala Lumpur that has hosted law students since 2010. You work on live matters, go to court at least four times, and are paired with a mentor at the firm.
Your own apartment, sorted
A private apartment of your own, ten minutes from the firm. Breakfast and lunch on working days, Malay lessons twice a week, and a driver to and from the firm where available. Putrajaya, Malacca and Port Dickson. Flights and travel insurance are yours.
A different understanding of the law
You leave with an entirely different understanding of another country’s legal system, the culture it grew out of, and a short comparison of Malaysian and Australian law you can show an employer.
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Practical beats reading about it.
A textbook can tell you what an affidavit is. It cannot tell you what it feels like when the other side files one at 4.55 on a Friday, what the partner says next, or how the file moves after that. You learn the shape of practice by being in the room while it happens.
You learn the rule
The test for security for costs. The elements of the cause of action. Useful, and examinable, and about a tenth of the job.
You learn the judgment
Which argument to run, what a client can actually afford, when to pick up the phone instead of drafting, and what a judge does when you are not ready.
You can describe a court
Hierarchy, jurisdiction, the order of appearances. All of it correct, none of it the thing an interviewer asks you about.
You have been in one
Court twice a week, sitting with the lawyer running the matter. Afterwards you have something of your own to say about how a hearing really goes.
This is the whole idea. Four weeks inside a working litigation firm, on live files, is worth more than another semester of reading about what those files contain. See the four weeks, or find where in Malaysia suits you.
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