Tag: Legal Cheek
PRO BONO FAIL: Law Firms Outnumber Cases As Law Soc’s Riot Help Scheme Flops
EXCLUSIVE: It wasn’t just kids in Tottenham and Hackney who got carried away during last...
Legal Profession Is ‘Bedazzled By The Legend Of London’
In reality, the capital’s lawyers are no better than their regional counterparts, says The Law...
Simon Myerson QC: I’d Rather Have a Coffee Than a Pupil
‘Pupils contribute nothing to chambers during their pupillage’, writes Simon Myerson QC, so paying them...
Should We Let Sleeping Judges Lie?
Alex Aldridge found it hard to stay awake while marshalling as a bright-eyed 26-year-old, so...
Online Dating Sites For Lawyers – And Those Keen To Bag One
At a loose end on Valentine’s Day, Alex Aldridge signs up to several websites aimed...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 13 February
Barrister who Legal Cheek exclusively revealed had been practising while on bail is jailed –...
City Pro Bono Falls: Airfare Savings?
As City pro bono hours drop, Alasdair Stewart of pro bono charity LawWorks is buoyed...
MP Demands Action After Legal Cheek Reveals £81K Theft Barrister is Still Practising
Today in the House of Commons, Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland will call for...
Farewell To The Arse
A couple of weeks ago the excellent law student information site LawCareers.Net described Legal Cheek’s...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Poulter & Aldridge Meet the Shadow Attorney General
This week on the #RoundMyKitchenTable podcast shadow Attorney-General Emily Thornberry joins journalist Alex Aldridge and...
What Are Law Recruitment Fairs For?
The trauma of the City law milkround drove law graduate Jade Ferguson to explore other...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 19 January
City law bonuses reach £35K, but Brazilian lawyer earnings exceed UK counterparts – Legal Cheek...
Do You Know the YouTube Law Student Cyclist?
Update 4pm: the law student cyclist is Danny Shine (thanks to @piombo). Yesterday, the Telegraph...
OCCUPY THE LAW SOCIETY! (in a nice way)
Follow @pondcat Other than a short-lived campaign to occupy the Inns of Court, there are...
#TweetsOfTheWeek
Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Smugly delivered tired gag of the week @ZASaunders...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: LAWYERS AND PR
Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge, whose flat’s central heating is broken, turns on his oven...
SOCIAL MOBILITY EFFORTS STILL IN A VACUUM
Follow @FellowsAdam The disconnect between the legal profession and school children is a hindrance to...
#TweetsOfTheWeek
Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Twitter put down of the week Rookie barrister...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: BAR DELEGATION VISITS DALSTON
Jeremy Hopkins, a practice manager at top commercial set 3 Verulam Buildings, and Benjamin Gray,...
WHO SAID ARTS DEGREES WERE EASY?
Follow @LaurenceMills My Oxford history degree was no soft option, says City trainee-to-be Laurence Mills...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS
Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, I’m a male first year trainee solicitor at a large...