Tag: Kevin Poulter
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...
Four Reasons Why The Trainee Minimum Wage Had To Go
You heard it here first, a full hour before any other publication, and it’s now...
#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...
If You Put Trainee Solicitors On Housing Benefits, You Cut The Price Of Law School, Right?
Following the announcement by the Law Society that trainee solicitors on housing benefit is “not...
Royal Charter Spurs Awed CILEX Lawyers To Remove Shoes: EXCLUSIVE PICS
The Royal Charter conferred recently upon law’s plucky underdogs, legal executives, carries great power, elevating...
Trainee Solicitors Could Earn Just £5,408 a Year If Minimum Wage Scrapped
Trainee solicitors could be re-classified as apprentices – and see their salaries tumble to just...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Are Legal Bloggers Real Journalists?
Still reeling from the shock of not being included in The Independent‘s Twitter 100 list,...
Do Trainees And Pupils ‘Contribute Nothing’?
At 2.30pm yesterday Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge was beginning to panic. The arranged guest...
#RoundMyKitchenTable Exam Special: How Do You Revise And Apply For Jobs?
Taking a rare break from revising for his Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) exams, barrister-to-be...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Tattoos, Converting to Law in Your Late 20s & Office Politics
This week podcast hosts Alex Aldridge and Kevin Poulter are joined by Daniela Valdez, an...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Poulter & Aldridge Meet the Shadow Attorney General
This week on the #RoundMyKitchenTable podcast shadow Attorney-General Emily Thornberry joins journalist Alex Aldridge and...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Twork Experience, Fairy Tales & City Lawyer Fat Cats
Earlier this week, law student David Woodall set out some etiquette for asking lawyers for...
The Avatars Finally Meet! Legal Cheek Reviews Last Night’s ‘Legal Tweet-Up’
“These breaded treats (pictured below) are absolutely world class – and I don’t use that...
#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...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Do the Inns of Court Need Modernising?
Why do the Inns of Court make public their combined £4.7m scholarship fund, but refuse...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: ILEX, CONTEMPT OF COURT AND CHRISTMAS CHEER
Contrary to popular belief, Alex Aldridge is not locked up in a Morroccan jail for...