Topic:

A Lawyer’s Inner Monologue – We Are Not Nerds!

Name and Biography of Speaker:

Assoc. Prof. Anne Vergis

Anne Vergis, an Associate Professor of Law joined University of Reading Malaysia (UORM) in October 2014 as the Head of Law. Anne is very enthusiastic about legal education, educational leadership and management of higher education. Her passion for education brought her into the academia in 1998 where she commenced her academic career as a lecturer and progressed on to hold various administrative and management portfolios.

https://www.reading.edu.my/about-us/our-staff/academic-team/anne-chrishanthani-vergis

Details of the Talk:

Introductions:
Lawyers in TV dramas look handsome and stylish, whereas, in university law students are busy immersing themselves in the library burying themselves in the books. Are these true? So, who are the ‘real’ law students? Let us learn about the LLB course content and its prospects.

Outlines:
1. Introduction to the Law Programme
2. Entry requirements
3. What kind of person (any specific personality traits) is suitable to pursue law?
4. How to become a lawyer and what is the process?
5. What is the daily life of a lawyer?
6. Will different types of lawyers have different pay/salaries?
7. Is there a big difference between what a law student learn and his real life work?
8. What are the challenges of a lawyer?
9. A word/phrase that will offend a lawyer…
10. What else can you do besides becoming a lawyer after graduating from law school?
11. What are the prospects and demands for law students?
12. What is/are the role(s) of lawyers in the society?

Remarks:

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