VIDEOS

An interview with Audrey Vong from Herbert Smith Freehills

SATLA is proud to launch an insightful new interview series with Audrey Vong, a law graduate at Herbert Smith Freehills (and past SATLA President!)

Over a series of four video interviews, we speak to Audrey about her experience joining HSF and working in the legal operations team. Our aim is to help you learn more about HSF's culture and this exciting area of work that's a bit different to regular legal practice.

Part 1: Transitioning to full-time work

In the first video of the series, Audrey talks about how her experiences at Melbourne Law School prepared her for full-time work and how you can prepare yourself for success through extracurriculars.

Part 2: The HSF graduate experience

In Part Two of our interview series, we learn more about the HSF Graduate Experience and what you can expect as you rotate through the firm.

 

Part 3: What is ‘legal operations’?

In Part Three of the series, we look at the exciting area of 'legal operations'. Audrey explains what legal ops is, how it's changing the legal industry and how current law students can develop skills around legal ops before joining a firm.

Part 4: Working in legal operations

In the final part of our interview series, we look at the nature of the work in legal operations. Audrey speaks about the opportunities for junior lawyers to engage with external clients through legal ops, as well as emerging trends in the legal ops space that are seeing law firms adapt to changing market.