Committee Positions:

Pre-Law director (senior committee member):

The pre-law director will be responsible for engaging undergraduate students through a variety of medium, including social events and competitions. The role will be somewhat self-defined and will require a motivated and innovative individual with a vision for the role. The pre-law director will also chair an undergraduate sub-committee.

Promotions Officer:

The promotions officer will be responsible for co-ordinating all of the society’s promotional activities. This will include, but is not limited to, creating posters and updating the website and facebook pages. Graphic design (poster) skills are essential for this role. Website administration will be taught to the successful applicant by our IT officer.

Office bearer positions:

Careers handbook editor and four sub-editors:

The successful applicants should be available to work on the handbook over February.

Onyx editor and three sub-editors:

The Onyx editor team is tasked with working with the publications officer to publish three editions of the official Blackstone law journal. Some editor experience is preferred for the position of editor.

Publications officer:

The publications officer will work with editors and assist in the layout of publications such as Onyx, the Careers Handbook and Briefs. Graphic design and in-design skills are essential.

Equity sub-committee:

The following sub-committee positions are available:

-          Mental health officer;

-          Indigenous students’ representative;

-          International students’ representative;

-          Graduate and mature age students’ representative.

The equity sub-committee will be tasked with the organisation of a variety of equity and social justice initiatives. For more information on the roles, please contact the 2012 Equity VP, Rachel Lee, at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Competitions co-ordinators and organisers:

Co-ordinators will handle the preparation of competition materials, the draw of competitors and other logistics. Organisers work with the co-ordinators to run competitions on the evening, including catering, set-up of rooms and registering competitors. Positions are available for each of the following:

-          Open mooting

-          IHL mooting

-          Negotiation

-          Client Interview

-          Student Paper

-          Trial Advocacy

-          First Year Mooting

-          First Year Trial Advocacy

President: Alex Drake-Brockman

Admin VP: Monika Plattner

Education VP: Soph van Hattem

Social VP: Steph Baker

Careers VP: Tegan Harrington

Equity & Social Justice VP: Rachel Lee

Competitions VP: Emily Zylstra

Pre-Law Director: Applications now open

Volunteering Director: Alice Tormey

WILMS Director / Women’s Officer: Molly Dale

Senior Ed Rep: Alex Noonan

Senior Ed Rep: Eleni Pratt

Senior Ed Rep: Cassie Lendich

Senior Social Rep: Bella Tole

Senior Social Rep: Mitchell Tatam

Senior Social Rep: Chris Colalillo

Senior Careers Rep: Grace Williamson

Senior Careers Rep: Jonathon Dos Santos

Senior Careers Rep: Harry Guo

Junior Education Rep: Rubin Trehan

Junior Social Rep: Emily Purvis

Junior Careers Rep: Kelsey Gordon

Sports Rep (Female): Lucy Mengler

Sports Rep (Male): Sam Gillis

Congratulations to the elected candidates!

The speakers include Dr Chris Hubbard (Senior Lecturer, Curtin University), Mariko Ishii (third generation Hiroshima survivor and anti-nuclear activist), and Dr Peter Underwood (Medical Association for Prevention of War VP).

The event is free of charge and light refreshments will be served.

Date: Thursday 29 September

Time: 5.45pm for a 6pm start till 7.30pm

Venue: Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Level 10 Central Park, 152 St Georges Terrace, Perth

RSVP to Vivienne Ryan on 08 9225 1928 or email hidden; JavaScript is required

See the flyer for details.

2 TRI LAW!!

The UWA team, made up of Trish Yang, Alicia Yap, Ying Siow and Scott Young, will be competing against the University of Adelaide in the National Family Law Moot Competition this Friday. Come down to courtroom 3.5 of the WA Family Court to cheer them on if you aren’t getting boozy at the Academic Challenge

4.  Careers Presentations

8.  Squire Sanders FREE lunch mixer for Penultimate Year Students- Wednesday 1-2

The Perth Minter Ellison office is combining with top 25 global law firm Squire Sanders, and will be providing a free lunch for penultimate year students to promote the new firm.

Sorry for the more bulky email this week (it was necessary with all the important volunteering programs- I promise I’ll make it more succinct next time!

Yours Sincerely,
Cam

1st Year Sundowner

Come on down to Blackstone’s 3rd social event for “freshers”; a sundowner on the matilda bay foreshore, friday 27th May from 5pm.  A free BBQ will be provided. See the facebook event for more details.
Blackstone Volunteering research team

Blackstone is looking to create a research team on legal practice board requirements to assist the Mental Health Law Centre.  For more information and to express interest, send an email to email hidden; JavaScript is required

ALSA Conference update!
Last-chance sign ups for general delegates are still open for this year’s Australian Law Students Association (ALSA) Conference in Sydney!

The Conference will take place from 8-14 July, and will feature a week of social, careers, education and competition events!

For more information, email Nik Barron, Blackstone Education VP (email hidden; JavaScript is required).

“We would love to throw a big ‘thank you’ to the Blackstone Volunteers who helped the Foodbank last Friday as part of Guild-Volunteering’s V-Day. Special thanks to Tenille Kearney for organising the day For those who came- we hope you all had a good time, and felt good about doing something for the community. If you have not already done so, don’t forget to join the ‘Blackstone Volunteering 2011′ facebook group- that way we can keep you all informed about other volunteering opportunities”

Jac Mac Careers Presentation
- tomorrow at 1pm in Law Lecture Theatre on Negotiation skills

check the WebCT folder “careers presentations” for more information about other upcoming careers presentations

Careers Handbooks
Careers handbooks are still being sold in the courtyard 12-2 mondays – thursdays.  Alternatively shoot me an email and I can arrange to sell you some outside those times (I live at Uni)

That’s all for this week, don’t forget- I’m always available to help, whether it’s issues with a unit co-ordinator, questions about blackstone or something really random (surprise me!).

Your Sincerely

Cam