Category: Podcast
Interview: How To Become a Legal Commentator
Last Thursday, for the first time in ages, I bought a copy of The Times....
#RoundMyKitchenTable PODCAST: How The Disappearance Of Privacy Is Driving Lawyers Crazy
These days, lawyers seem to spend half their time trying to come up with new...
Survival Tips For Baby Barristers At The Publicly Funded Bar
Last week, David Cameron’s former chief-of-staff, Alex Deane, explained to Legal Cheek why he tired...
Weber Shandwick Head Of Public Affairs Alex Deane: ‘Why I Don’t Miss The Genteel Poverty Of The Criminal Bar’
Criminal barrister-turned-PR-guru Alex Deane loved the camaraderie and courtroom thrills of the Bar. But after...
Noses Back To The Grindstone: What Will The New Academic Year Bring For Law Students And Trainees?
Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge and Bircham Dyson Bell solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the big...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Understanding How Law Firms Think About A-Levels
With many law firms and barristers’ chambers using strict minimum A-level requirements to filter wannabes,...
Stick Or Twist? Deciding When To Call It Quits In The Hunt For a Pupillage Or Training Contract
There has been good news recently for several Legal Cheek contributors – three of whom...
A G&T With @LegalTrainee Founder Izzy Abidi
Earlier this week I caught up with Eversheds trainee Izzy Abidi – the brains behind...
Making Sense Of The Mixed Messages About The Graduate Legal Job Market
On Monday I read a piece in The Lawyer about the encouraging recent trainee retention...
PODCAST: The Future Of Legal Blogging
This week’s #RoundMyKitchenTable podcast guest, City University’s Emily Allbon (pictured), is one of the pioneers...
‘How Will I Ever Come Out In Front Of Partners Who Say: ‘I Can’t Watch One Foot In The Grave Because That Richard Wilson Is Gay’?’
The words of solicitor-advocate and Law Society council member Keith Etherington, as he recalls how...
ADVICE: ‘Which Training Contract Offer Should I Accept?!’
UPDATE 4pm: XXX chose the London firm LPC graduate XXX XXXX (name removed) is facing...
PODCAST: Laying Down On a Bed Of Norton Roses
Success can turn on the smallest of things. Cambridge graduate Marta Sanchez (pictured left) completed...
PODCAST: Be Yourself, Not Some ‘Made In Chelsea’ Clone
With Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge on yet another foreign jolly, Bircham Dyson Bell lawyer...
How To Go From Corporate Law Into Human Rights Academia
Most people don’t stay at the law firms they join as trainees all that long....
PODCAST: Why Lawyers Need To Hustle To Stay In The Game During a Recession
Solicitor Jonathan Lea makes the short trip up from Bargate Murray HQ at Shoreditch’s Silicon...
PODCAST: Becoming a Lawyer In The Eddie Stobart Chambers Era (And How Graduates Can Woo Law Firms With Their Social Media Prowess)
Following Thursday’s news that Eddie Stobart lorries is launching a barristers’ arm, law graduates Cathryn...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Legal Profession’s Transformation Could Be ‘King’s Cross-Like’
Within walking distance of central London, and just two hours from Paris by Eurostar, King’s...
PODCAST: Scrap Trainee Minimum Salary And ‘Only The Rich’ Will Become Solicitors, Says Junior Lawyers Division Chief
The minimum trainee salary debate is developing into quite a fight – with the latest...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Orwell Prize Shortlisted Law Blogger Milly Bancroft On The Rise Of The New Media Set
On Tuesday, legal blogger Amanda “Milly” Bancroft found out, via Twitter, that she’d made the...
Chartered Legal Execs Swear Rule Of Law Oath – Other Lawyers To Follow?
For the first time in English legal history, newly qualified lawyers have sworn their version...