Partner with AUT’s Law School

Our Shadow a Leader student-industry experience week is a great opportunity to connect with our students. Shadow a Leader allows a student to follow an industry leader for a day to understand what it takes to succeed in the leader’s field of endeavour.

Shadow a Leader programme

Our students proactively self-manage law clubs and societies. The clubs represent the interests of AUT's law students and enhance their experience of law school. These groups organise extracurricular law competitions, find mentors for first and second years, and host speaker events featuring guests who are leaders in their field.

We invite you to get involved. Your contribution will prepare our student club members for real-world expectations, and your support will act as a catalyst for their career advancement once they’ve graduated. By engaging with club executive members you can also enjoy the stimulating company of some very bright and motivated young people.

AUT law clubs

• AUT Law Students’ Society (AUTLSS)
• AUT Mooting Society
• AUT Pacific Law Students Association (AUTPLSA)
• Te Aro Ture (TAT)

The AUT Law School’s clinical legal education programme requires students to undertake worthwhile legal work, including commercial pro bono settings.

You can support our law students to work effectively and reliably, individually and as a team member in a professional environment, and apply research and analytical skills to legal issues relevant to clients.

Lunch and Chat

Lunch and Chat is held twice per semester. We invite 3 to 5 contacts from practice to meet with 20 students in their penultimate year.

Lunch and Chat is an opportunity for students to connect and talk with alumni, asking those harder-to-ask questions on the transition from education to employment and gaining tips on what students need to succeed, including what they already have at their disposal and where hidden opportunities might lie.

Great Graduate Speaker Series

The Great Graduate Speaker Series aims to showcase AUT alumni, highlighting the alumni's inspirational achievements and unique career journeys.  The series will offer a platform for industry professionals, AUT alumni, staff and student attendees to foster mutual connections and hear and discuss current industry trends, education and research.

We aim to host two Great Graduate Speaker Series events annually, with one law and one business alumni event.

There are many ways students and industry are connected. You can get involved by providing scholarships, mentoring or presenting to students, sponsoring a student club or a student award, exhibiting at a career fair, promoting initiatives via our student channels, or hosting a student as a representative on your organisation's board.

• Recruit a student or graduate 
• Take part in employer events and promote your business on campus
• Sponsor student initiatives or provide scholarships and awards