Tag: Podcast

#RoundMyKitchenTable PODCAST: How The Disappearance Of Privacy Is Driving Lawyers Crazy

These days, lawyers seem to spend half their time trying to come up with new...

Oct 26 2012 2:50pm

Survival Tips For Baby Barristers At The Publicly Funded Bar

Last week, David Cameron’s former chief-of-staff, Alex Deane, explained to Legal Cheek why he tired...

Sep 14 2012 1:00pm

Weber Shandwick Head Of Public Affairs Alex Deane: ‘Why I Don’t Miss The Genteel Poverty Of The Criminal Bar’

Criminal barrister-turned-PR-guru Alex Deane loved the camaraderie and courtroom thrills of the Bar. But after...

Sep 7 2012 12:34pm

Noses Back To The Grindstone: What Will The New Academic Year Bring For Law Students And Trainees?

Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge and Bircham Dyson Bell solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the big...

Sep 3 2012 12:53pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Understanding How Law Firms Think About A-Levels

With many law firms and barristers’ chambers using strict minimum A-level requirements to filter wannabes,...

Aug 17 2012 5:14pm

Stick Or Twist? Deciding When To Call It Quits In The Hunt For a Pupillage Or Training Contract

There has been good news recently for several Legal Cheek contributors – three of whom...

Aug 10 2012 2:37pm

A G&T With @LegalTrainee Founder Izzy Abidi

Earlier this week I caught up with Eversheds trainee Izzy Abidi – the brains behind...

Aug 3 2012 1:59pm

Making Sense Of The Mixed Messages About The Graduate Legal Job Market

On Monday I read a piece in The Lawyer about the encouraging recent trainee retention...

Jul 20 2012 2:11pm

PODCAST: The Future Of Legal Blogging

This week’s #RoundMyKitchenTable podcast guest, City University’s Emily Allbon (pictured), is one of the pioneers...

Jul 13 2012 2:29pm

‘How Will I Ever Come Out In Front Of Partners Who Say: ‘I Can’t Watch One Foot In The Grave Because That Richard Wilson Is Gay’?’

The words of solicitor-advocate and Law Society council member Keith Etherington, as he recalls how...

Jul 6 2012 2:03pm

ADVICE: ‘Which Training Contract Offer Should I Accept?!’

UPDATE 4pm: XXX chose the London firm LPC graduate XXX XXXX (name removed) is facing...

Jun 29 2012 1:27pm

PODCAST: Laying Down On a Bed Of Norton Roses

Success can turn on the smallest of things. Cambridge graduate Marta Sanchez (pictured left) completed...

Jun 22 2012 2:14pm

PODCAST: Be Yourself, Not Some ‘Made In Chelsea’ Clone

With Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge on yet another foreign jolly, Bircham Dyson Bell lawyer...

Jun 15 2012 2:34pm

How To Go From Corporate Law Into Human Rights Academia

Most people don’t stay at the law firms they join as trainees all that long....

Jun 8 2012 3:08pm

PODCAST: Becoming a Lawyer In The Eddie Stobart Chambers Era (And How Graduates Can Woo Law Firms With Their Social Media Prowess)

Following Thursday’s news that Eddie Stobart lorries is launching a barristers’ arm, law graduates Cathryn...

May 18 2012 3:04pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Legal Profession’s Transformation Could Be ‘King’s Cross-Like’

Within walking distance of central London, and just two hours from Paris by Eurostar, King’s...

May 11 2012 1:45pm

PODCAST: Scrap Trainee Minimum Salary And ‘Only The Rich’ Will Become Solicitors, Says Junior Lawyers Division Chief

The minimum trainee salary debate is developing into quite a fight – with the latest...

May 4 2012 3:02pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Orwell Prize Shortlisted Law Blogger Milly Bancroft On The Rise Of The New Media Set

On Tuesday, legal blogger Amanda “Milly” Bancroft found out, via Twitter, that she’d made the...

Apr 27 2012 1:58pm

Chartered Legal Execs Swear Rule Of Law Oath – Other Lawyers To Follow?

For the first time in English legal history, newly qualified lawyers have sworn their version...

Apr 24 2012 1:09pm

If You Put Trainee Solicitors On Housing Benefits, You Cut The Price Of Law School, Right?

Following the announcement by the Law Society that trainee solicitors on housing benefit is “not...

Apr 13 2012 1:04pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Are Legal Bloggers Real Journalists?

Still reeling from the shock of not being included in The Independent‘s Twitter 100 list,...

Mar 2 2012 4:40pm