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...

Jan 17 2012 2:09pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Aldridge & Poulter Analyse Week’s Legal News

Journalist Alex Aldridge and solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the week’s legal news over a bottle...

Jan 13 2012 1:11pm

Glimpse a Star: Legal Cheek Facebook Competition

Legal Cheek netted its 1,000th Twitter follower yesterday – not bad for a blog that’s...

Jan 11 2012 2:32pm

Legal Sector’s January Recovery Looks Brittle

Fundamentals behind recent improved trainee retention rates and pay rises are questionable, says Alex Aldridge...

Jan 10 2012 1:12pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Do the Inns of Court Need Modernising?

Why do the Inns of Court make public their combined £4.7m scholarship fund, but refuse...

Jan 6 2012 11:23am

Don’t Believe the Law School Scholarship Hype

Yesterday a press release from the College of Law appeared in my inbox, headed COLLEGE...

Jan 5 2012 11:04am

Accutrainee Chief Hits Back at Critics

Follow @Accutrainee Founder of new cut-price training contract scheme responds to recent criticism from Legal...

Jan 4 2012 2:40pm

THAT’S ALL FOLKS (now over to KevinP)

Newly awash with mysterious investors’ money, Legal Cheek is taking its growing army of staff...

Dec 14 2011 4:38pm

#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...

Dec 9 2011 11:31am

APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK As the Christmas party season gets underway, Alex Aldridge is expecting great things...

Dec 8 2011 2:30pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: LAWYERS AND PR

Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge, whose flat’s central heating is broken, turns on his oven...

Dec 2 2011 11:12am

GOING FORWARD, I’LL ALWAYS BE A MORON

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Legal Cheek launches anti-‘going forward’ offensive “Going forward, I give up,” wrote Financial...

Nov 28 2011 9:37am

#RoundMyKitchenTable: ALTERNATIVE CAREERS TO LAW

Dan Hoadley and Alex Aldridge, both of whom trained as barristers before going into journalism...

Nov 25 2011 12:43pm

WHAT’S DRIVING YOU, LOVE OR FEAR?

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Don’t pursue a career on the basis of what will sound good at...

Nov 21 2011 10:21am

#RoundMyKitchenTable: BAR DELEGATION VISITS DALSTON

Jeremy Hopkins, a practice manager at top commercial set 3 Verulam Buildings, and Benjamin Gray,...

Nov 18 2011 11:19am

DO WE HAVE TO CALL IT ‘DIVERSITY’?

Follow @legalaware Ambiguous term is stunting debate, says LegalAware The word ‘diversity’ is an unhelpful...

Nov 15 2011 10:19am

#RoundMyKitchenTable: LIVE (metaphorically) FROM THE CHANCERY LANE TWEETUP

Legal Cheek brought its army of sound crew and technicans along to the excellent #TweetingLegals...

Nov 11 2011 11:12am

IN-HOUSE LAWYER’S SHOWDOWN WITH MURDOCH

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Former News of the World legal chief can make in-house lawyers proud in...

Nov 7 2011 10:31am

#RoundMyKitchenTable: PROTESTS, DISCRIMINATION AND MEMORIES OF PRINCESS DI

Civil liberties lawyer Sophie Khan has a very different take on the OccupyLondon protests to...

Nov 4 2011 10:38am

#TwitterLawPoems: Dear @PegasusCorpInfo

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Dear @PegasusCorpInfo, You’ve #ff’d me now every Friday for 6 months or so,...

Nov 1 2011 2:29pm

BEING A SOLICITOR: THE VIDEO GAME

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Yesterday I had a go at an online game City law firm Berwin...

Oct 25 2011 8:44am