Author: alex
Don’t Believe the Law School Scholarship Hype
Yesterday a press release from the College of Law appeared in my inbox, headed COLLEGE...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 5 January
Judge ticks off lawyers after ‘blah, blah, blah’ court note – Metro Apple ‘threatens legal...
Judge Hears Cases in a Pub
A pub is being used as a makeshift courtroom due to a shortage of official...
The Big Fight: David Allen Green vs Charon QC
Legal Cheek reports as the blogging heavyweights go head-to-head in a spectacular Twitter bust-up Still...
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Trials of The 1%’ To Begin As Occupy Allowed To Stay In Shoreditch Courthouse For 3 More Weeks
Occupy London protesters have been granted the right to continue squatting a disused Old Street...
Judge With The Wild Dogs and The Bad Attitude Retires
Judge and owner of fearsome alsatians Beatrice “fucking travesty” Bolton has retired before the disciplinary...
Occupy London Fight to Conduct “Trials of The 1%”
Occupy London’s fledgling Occupy Justice campaign will find out this morning whether it can continue...
THAT’S ALL FOLKS (now over to KevinP)
Newly awash with mysterious investors’ money, Legal Cheek is taking its growing army of staff...
TRAINING CONTRACTS NEVER GREW ON TREES
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Current tough job market made to sound even worse by frequent comparisons with...
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK As the Christmas party season gets underway, Alex Aldridge is expecting great things...
LEGAL AWARDS CEREMONIES: THE HORROR
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK The ‘British Legal Awards’, the grandly titled money making scam awards ceremony for...
GOING FORWARD, I’LL ALWAYS BE A MORON
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Legal Cheek launches anti-‘going forward’ offensive “Going forward, I give up,” wrote Financial...
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,...
IF YOU CAN’T BEAT THE BLOGGERS, JOIN THEM
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Continuing snobbery towards legal blogging betrays journalists’ fear that evolving medium could do...
IN-HOUSE LAWYER’S SHOWDOWN WITH MURDOCH
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Former News of the World legal chief can make in-house lawyers proud in...
LEGAL CHEEK FIELD TRIP TO OCCUPY LONDON
When I got a tip-off from Kevin Poulter last Friday about a legal tent at...
#TwitterLawPoems: Dear @PegasusCorpInfo
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Dear @PegasusCorpInfo, You’ve #ff’d me now every Friday for 6 months or so,...
LAWYERS WITHOUT RIGHTS
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Stories of Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany are both tragic and inspiring Sitting...
BEING A SOLICITOR: THE VIDEO GAME
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Yesterday I had a go at an online game City law firm Berwin...
CITY LAWYER IN FACEBOOK FAN PAGE FIRST
In what must surely be a first for a City lawyer, Preiskel & Co head...