Tag: Alex Aldridge
Do You Know the YouTube Law Student Cyclist?
Update 4pm: the law student cyclist is Danny Shine (thanks to @piombo). Yesterday, the Telegraph...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Aldridge & Poulter Analyse Week’s Legal News
Journalist Alex Aldridge and solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the week’s legal news over a bottle...
Glimpse a Star: Legal Cheek Facebook Competition
Legal Cheek netted its 1,000th Twitter follower yesterday – not bad for a blog that’s...
Legal Sector’s January Recovery Looks Brittle
Fundamentals behind recent improved trainee retention rates and pay rises are questionable, says Alex Aldridge...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Do the Inns of Court Need Modernising?
Why do the Inns of Court make public their combined £4.7m scholarship fund, but refuse...
Don’t Believe the Law School Scholarship Hype
Yesterday a press release from the College of Law appeared in my inbox, headed COLLEGE...
Accutrainee Chief Hits Back at Critics
Follow @Accutrainee Founder of new cut-price training contract scheme responds to recent criticism from Legal...
THAT’S ALL FOLKS (now over to KevinP)
Newly awash with mysterious investors’ money, Legal Cheek is taking its growing army of staff...
#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...
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK As the Christmas party season gets underway, Alex Aldridge is expecting great things...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: LAWYERS AND PR
Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge, whose flat’s central heating is broken, turns on his oven...
GOING FORWARD, I’LL ALWAYS BE A MORON
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Legal Cheek launches anti-‘going forward’ offensive “Going forward, I give up,” wrote Financial...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: ALTERNATIVE CAREERS TO LAW
Dan Hoadley and Alex Aldridge, both of whom trained as barristers before going into journalism...
WHAT’S DRIVING YOU, LOVE OR FEAR?
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Don’t pursue a career on the basis of what will sound good at...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: BAR DELEGATION VISITS DALSTON
Jeremy Hopkins, a practice manager at top commercial set 3 Verulam Buildings, and Benjamin Gray,...
DO WE HAVE TO CALL IT ‘DIVERSITY’?
Follow @legalaware Ambiguous term is stunting debate, says LegalAware The word ‘diversity’ is an unhelpful...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: LIVE (metaphorically) FROM THE CHANCERY LANE TWEETUP
Legal Cheek brought its army of sound crew and technicans along to the excellent #TweetingLegals...
IN-HOUSE LAWYER’S SHOWDOWN WITH MURDOCH
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Former News of the World legal chief can make in-house lawyers proud in...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: PROTESTS, DISCRIMINATION AND MEMORIES OF PRINCESS DI
Civil liberties lawyer Sophie Khan has a very different take on the OccupyLondon protests to...
#TwitterLawPoems: Dear @PegasusCorpInfo
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Dear @PegasusCorpInfo, You’ve #ff’d me now every Friday for 6 months or so,...
BEING A SOLICITOR: THE VIDEO GAME
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Yesterday I had a go at an online game City law firm Berwin...