Author: Legal Cheek

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I put a kiss on an email to my boss’

Dear Auntie Em, I wrote an email the other day to the partner in charge...

Jan 12 2012 3:22pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Do the Inns of Court Need Modernising?

Why do the Inns of Court make public their combined £4.7m scholarship fund, but refuse...

Jan 6 2012 11:23am

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I got drunk and told my colleagues I hate them’

Dear Auntie Em, At last month’s office Christmas party I got very drunk and told...

Jan 5 2012 1:47pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: ILEX, CONTEMPT OF COURT AND CHRISTMAS CHEER

Contrary to popular belief, Alex Aldridge is not locked up in a Morroccan jail for...

Dec 23 2011 10:59am

#RoundMyKitchenTable: SEASONAL CHRISTMAS PARTY PODCAST

This week Alex Aldridge is taking a barely earned rest from uploading blogs to Legal...

Dec 16 2011 11:00am

#RoundMyKitchenTable: TAKING A GAP YEAR TO SECURE A TRAINING CONTRACT

Law graduates Flora Duguid and Cathryn Kozlowski have both opted to take gap years before...

Dec 9 2011 11:31am

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I just love saying ‘going forward’!’

Dear Auntie Em, I consider myself a well spoken individual, who uses the English language...

Dec 8 2011 9:51am

#TweetsOfTheWeek

Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Smugly delivered tired gag of the week @ZASaunders...

Dec 2 2011 3:16pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: LAWYERS AND PR

Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge, whose flat’s central heating is broken, turns on his oven...

Dec 2 2011 11:12am

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: “Pupillage is giving me nightmares”

Dear Auntie Em, I’m plagued by this terrible recurring dream I’ve been having since I...

Dec 1 2011 1:56pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: ALTERNATIVE CAREERS TO LAW

Dan Hoadley and Alex Aldridge, both of whom trained as barristers before going into journalism...

Nov 25 2011 12:43pm

#TweetsOfTheWeek

Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Twitter tale from the Bar of the week...

Nov 25 2011 12:42pm

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: I want to jack in law to become an artist

Dear Auntie Em, Last week I went to an art exhibition sponsored by my [large...

Nov 24 2011 1:19pm

#TweetsOfTheWeek

Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Twitter put down of the week Rookie barrister...

Nov 18 2011 2:41pm

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I’ve been having an affair with my boss’

Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, I’ve been having an affair with my boss for the...

Nov 17 2011 10:35am

#TweetsOfTheWeek

Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Social mobility champion of the week @TheInnerTemple, with...

Nov 11 2011 1:36pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: LIVE (metaphorically) FROM THE CHANCERY LANE TWEETUP

Legal Cheek brought its army of sound crew and technicans along to the excellent #TweetingLegals...

Nov 11 2011 11:12am

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I can’t get a training contract’

Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, I finished my LPC this summer and I still don’t...

Nov 10 2011 12:54pm

#TweetsOfTheWeek

Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Poorly disguised Twitter boast of the week (brought...

Nov 4 2011 1:53pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: PROTESTS, DISCRIMINATION AND MEMORIES OF PRINCESS DI

Civil liberties lawyer Sophie Khan has a very different take on the OccupyLondon protests to...

Nov 4 2011 10:38am

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS

Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, My law firm, where I’m a newly qualified solicitor, is...

Nov 3 2011 2:58pm