Alex Aldridge, Author at Legal Cheek

Legal Cheek listed law firm fund chalks up 38% increase in just six months

Puts the FTSE 100 and S&P 500 in the shade

Jul 1 2021 11:16am
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Listed law firms prove resilient to market turbulence

Is the legal profession the new gold?

Jun 1 2021 11:32am
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Pressure to generate returns forces listed law firms to think outside the box

Investors aren’t interested in how many offices firms have got or other traditional prestige metrics

Apr 29 2021 8:52am
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Law firms’ soaring share prices yield Bitcoin-esque rewards 🚀

Some investors who took the plunge last year sitting on huge profits

Mar 18 2021 10:54am
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Could the Gamestop craze reach law firm stocks?

As the Legal Cheek fund surges by 15%, our listed law firm columnist wonders if a Reddit-driven windfall could be around the corner

Feb 3 2021 11:55am
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Is it worth investing in listed law firms?

Legal profession’s stock market performance was poor last year but 2021 could bring a recovery

Jan 11 2021 9:13am

RPC latest firm to hand junior lawyers pay rises

More evidence of corporate legal sector’s resilience to the pandemic

Dec 23 2020 12:08pm
Reed Smith puts NQ salary back up to £90k

Firm raised pay in January, then cut it to £79,500 in June amid Covid economy fears, before moving it back up again to round out rollercoaster remuneration year

Dec 17 2020 10:35am
‘The SQE Sessions’ launches as super-exam countdown begins

Half-day virtual event will answer questions on firms’ lips

Nov 3 2020 10:10am
Beware the legal outsourcing second wave, junior City lawyers

What comes after the pandemic may not be good for MoneyLaw salaries

Jul 28 2020 9:07am
Writer wonders if he should have become a corporate lawyer

Sunday Times’ Josh Glancy unsettled by wealth divide opening up between him and pals from Oxford who went into law

Mar 2 2020 12:27pm
Barristers risk trashing profession’s reputation by being ‘clever dicks’ on social media, warns top blogger

Does the bar have a PR problem?

Jan 3 2020 10:45am

What Boris Johnson’s big majority means for the legal profession and those seeking to enter it

Focus on innovation, the North and alternatives to higher education could impact lawyers

Dec 17 2019 11:22am
Former Hill Dickinson solicitor leading race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader

Rebecca Long-Bailey also worked for Pinsent Masons and the now defunct Halliwells

Dec 16 2019 8:59am
It’s official: cryptocurrency is property and smart contracts are binding

Legal statement aims to position UK as fintech and lawtech leader

Nov 18 2019 11:48am
Manchester Law Society named as official partner of LegalEdCon North

CEO Fran Eccles-Bech highlights opportunity to boost innovation and widen access in legal education ahead of 30 January event

Nov 13 2019 9:57am
Tickets go on sale for The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference London 2020

At Kings Place, Kings Cross, London, on Thursday 14 May 2020

Nov 5 2019 8:54am
Founder of failed lawtech start-up that raised $1 million reveals what went wrong

Brutally honest

Jul 22 2019 9:02am

Magic circle and US law firms ‘must change the way they work’ or face ‘doom’, warns the FT

Will £100k+ for newly qualified solicitors prove a high water mark?

Jun 14 2019 3:51pm
Linklaters delays SQE transition to 2022

Exclusive: UK’s largest training law firm to stick with LPC for extra year after new Solicitors Qualifying Exam comes into place

Jun 4 2019 8:55am
Profession prepares for big changes in training of lawyers

Scrapping of LPC, shift to apprenticeships and focus on tech prompt enthusiasm and anxiety in equal measure

May 31 2019 11:15am