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Question: How many lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb? 

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Victoria's legal sector is supported by The Law Institute of Victoria. LIV produce a monthly sector Journal and offer a huge variety of Continuous Professional Development that lawyers must practice to be considered a lawyer, officially. In 2022, I was very fortunate to work across many of LIV's divisions, to help produce and deliver all types of content for lawyers.

 

Arguably, I was even more fortunate that the Editor-In-Chief of the Institute's Journal both sat next to me and enjoyed my sense of humour, as this enabled my becoming..ing, of a joke writer, officially.

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Turns out, a solid joke was required once a month for the Catch The Counterfeit Competition in the classified section: spot the fake ad, win a bottle of wine. 

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One day, I was told by so-and-so, down by the water cooler, that LIV had received more entries than usual, "probably because the jokes have actually gotten funny!" then asking, "Did you read that latest one about the snowman?", not knowing whom they twas water coolering with.

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It was on this December day that I knew I was honouring my purpose, and that my dad would have been particularly proud of that one. For he was the Captain of Sillytown and officially taught me how to officially apply official humour, like a pro. Officially. Any objections? I rest my case. Furthermore:

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What did officially I do, officially?

• managed CPD education video catalogue and data

• direction of third-party editing team

• creative strategy development for individual programs

• created videos for education programs, promotions, events, advocacy programs  

• production management, camera, mics, lighting, data

• direction of non-actors delivering to-camera and voice over performances

• joke writer for Catch The Counterfeit, Law Institute Journal (yes, really)

• coordinated online publication of Journal, website updates, paywall vs public content

• coordinated third-party advertising content for website

• coordinated run count and mailing lists of Journal

• managed subscriptions, point-of-contact for agencies, institutions and individuals regarding Law Journal access

• reported analytics of Journal web presence, also print and physical distribution data

• coordinated CAB Audit materials for Audited Media Association of Australia (AMAA)   

• developed work flow to manage video production in-house