The following advertisement was recently placed on the UTS Law Students’ Society website:

MARQUE LAWYERS - SEEKING A SUMMER CLERK

Hello second-last-year law student,

Marque Lawyers here.  If you haven’t heard of us, your life probably feels a little empty of meaning but

WANKER

we can fix that. The equation is simple enough.  You want a summer clerkship (partly as a first step in your legal career but mostly for bragging rights on campus) and we want some entertainment over summer.

We only want one summer clerk.  Avoids all that pathetic adolescent angst-driven rivalry between clerks, and we can focus our practical jokes on one target for a couple of months.  And yet we are a proper law firm and the Marque Clerk will be doing proper legal work while recovering from our Christmas party.  The dilemma for us is how to select the Marque Clerk, after all with only one clerk we don’t want a dud.

So, unbound as we here at Marque are by convention and good taste, we have decided to launch a competition and you’re invited to have a go.  It’s quite simple – all you need to do is write something really exceptionally good, submit it then sit back and wait.

The rules:

1. You must submit by email a piece of your own (not your mother’s, and we have software that can tell the difference) original writing on the topic “Humanity in the nth degree”.  Choose a subject like Kyle, Kim Jong Il, Dick Cheney or some other exemplar(s) of human behaviour taken to a logical extreme, and discuss whatever you like about it.

2. You must stop writing at 500 words because that’s when we’ll stop reading.

3. If you include the word “jazzy” in your piece without being too obvious about it, you get bonus points.

4. Send your email to hireme@marquelawyers.com.au by 7 September 2009.

5. We will read all entries unless there are too many in which case we won’t, but that seems unlikely.

6. We will select the 15 or so entries we liked the most, which will probably be because they were entertaining and well written and not because they were accompanied by promises of home-cooked food.

7. We will interview whoever wrote those pieces and, from that group, select our summer clerk.

Easy, really.  Your one chance to use your creative talents to jump the queue of university medallists and score the most coveted legal role in Christendom, at the only law firm in the world brave enough to use the term “Spice Girls” on its website.

Bring it on.

Michael Bradley

Managing Partner

Stay tuned for the Firm Spy’s application for the coveted clerkship position.

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