Jacki Holland - Juris Doctor

VISUAL: Grey/white screen. Black text in centre of screen. “Juris Doctor graduate Jacki Holland talks about balancing volunteering work, family life and further study.” RMIT logo at centre, bottom of screen.

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VISUAL: Opening image fades to a headshot of Ms Jacki Holland seated in what appears to be an interview space. On the bottom left of the screen the title reads: Jacki Holland, Juris Doctor. There is a grey-black wall behind her to the left, and an RMIT banner (for the MBA Executive) behind her to the right.

VISUAL: Ms Holland speaks to direct to camera.

VISUAL: Montage of images is shown of Ms Holland talking to another person in the scene previously described, and images of her walking down the hallway on the ground floor of the Emily McPherson Building, down a flight of stairs with another student, and a classroom.  

Ms Jacki Holland (Graduate, Juris Doctor, RMIT University): I chose to study the Juris Doctor at RMIT, um I was interested in doing, studying law. I should have done it when I finished year twelve (giggle). Um, but coming back to study I was, I was working, I had children, and this was the best fit for me in terms of being able to study after hours. It fitted in around the other aspects of my life and was flexible.

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Ms Jacki Holland: At the moment I’m volunteering at AED Legal Centre. They’re an organisation proving support, advocacy and um, legal representation for clients with a disability, who’ve been, been discriminated against in um, the workplace, or in training or education. Um, so in though, in my role there I’m supporting the lawyer, or the lawyers to, um, prepare a lot of legal documentation. We, you know, I go along and attend conciliations, mediations and hearings.

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Ms Jacki Holland: Um, drafting a lot of documents, and correspondence and statements of claim, and briefs to council and all of those types of things.

VISUAL: Montage of images of Ms Holland talking to another person, outside in RMIT grounds.

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VISUAL: Montage of images of Ms Holland talking to another person inside a classroom, and speaking on a telephone.

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Ms Jacki Holland: One of the things I really got out of this course that I think I may not have got at another institution is a lot of really practical experience. Um, a lot of our assessments were simulating the types of work that you’d have to do in the legal profession so I think I have a reasonable grasp of, of what a legal professional does.

VISUAL: Montage of images of Ms Holland talking to another person inside a building, and holding a “Juris Doctor” information brochure. 

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Ms Jacki Holland: We’ve picked up how to write some of those basic documents and how to stand up in a court and present with confidence and um and I think that’s something that RMIT has done really well with the Juris Doctor Program.

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www.rmit.edu.au, and CRICOS: 00122A appear at the centre-bottom of the screen

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