Podcast Archives - Legal Cheek

Legal Entrepreneurs Podcast: There’s a lot of excitement and freedom to running your own show

Goodwill can come your way if you start your own business, says Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge

Dec 20 2018 8:42am
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Legal Entrepreneurs: How a Schillings trainee made it to The Independent — and then quit to start his own media law firm

Reviewed & Cleared CEO David Burgess shares what led him to leave his high-flying job and run a business

Nov 8 2018 3:18pm
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Legal Entrepreneurs: How I used my lawyer skills to start my own consultancy firm

Media specialist Nicola Hartley shares her journey and the things she learnt along the way

Oct 31 2018 12:45pm
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Legal Entrepreneurs: How I started my own reputation law firm

Media lawyer Matt Himsworth opens up about the freedom running your own business can bring

Oct 16 2018 9:02am
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Legal Entrepreneurs Podcast: From Linklaters lawyer to CrowdJustice pioneer

Julia Salasky talks law and business

Oct 8 2018 10:42am
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The solicitor who launched a law firm while waiting for a new heart

City broker turned defender of the underdogs shares her story

Aug 9 2018 2:39pm
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The Hearing Podcast: Making a Murderer lawyer Dean Strang on Netflix fame

And what it’s like being an unlikely international sex symbol

Aug 2 2018 10:57am
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The Hearing: Ayesha Vardag on law reform, Brexit and her office robot

The ‘diva of divorce’ shares her story

Jul 26 2018 10:07am
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The Hearing Podcast: ‘Disability isn’t just sticks and wheelchairs’

Solicitor turned diversity champion Yasmin Sheikh shares her story

Jul 12 2018 9:48am
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The Hearing Podcast: How not to retire, with Sir Rupert Jackson

The former Court of Appeal judge and controversial costs reformer is still loving life in the law

Jul 6 2018 10:24am
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The Hearing Podcast: My life as a transgender barrister

Employment and discrimination specialist Robin White shares her story

Jun 28 2018 4:30pm
The Hearing Podcast: The difficult transition from law to politics

QC turned Home Secretary Lord Michael Howard shares his story

Jun 21 2018 10:36am
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The Hearing Podcast: Legal futurist Joe Raczynski on AI, blockchain and smart contracts

How close is tech to revolutionising the law?

Jun 14 2018 11:27am
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Podcast: ‘There were only three women in the whole firm’ — corporate law pioneer Fiona Woolf on gender diversity in the law

We’ve come a long way since the 1970s — but not far enough

Jun 8 2018 11:04am
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China meltdown, Brexit fears and 100% trainee retention rates — what does it all mean for wannabe lawyers?

We tested two undergraduate law students on their commercial awareness

Feb 4 2016 4:57pm
How ex-Linklaters solicitor Julia Salasky created a start-up to crowdfund justice

Is this the future in a world where legal aid is almost non-existent for challenging fundamental human rights issues?

Jun 26 2015 2:20pm
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Recruitment events: it’s not the law firms who want the booze, it’s the students

Cambridge University Law Society duo respond to backlash generated by Legal Cheek article about alcohol-fuelled Oxbridge social events put on by law firms.

Apr 7 2014 9:19am
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The law students providing legal advice to the Silicon Roundabout

What’s it like advising east London tech entrepreneurs about the law?

Mar 11 2014 11:40am