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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

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…

Mar 13 2012 12:53pm
#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
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 9 February

Wigs off, jeans on at the Judicial College – The Guardian Dickens v Lawyers –…

Feb 9 2012 8:58am
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Tattoos, Converting to Law in Your Late 20s & Office Politics

This week podcast hosts Alex Aldridge and Kevin Poulter are joined by Daniela Valdez, an…

Feb 3 2012 3:33pm
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Poulter & Aldridge Meet the Shadow Attorney General

This week on the #RoundMyKitchenTable podcast shadow Attorney-General Emily Thornberry joins journalist Alex Aldridge and…

Jan 27 2012 3:00pm
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Twork Experience, Fairy Tales & City Lawyer Fat Cats

Earlier this week, law student David Woodall set out some etiquette for asking lawyers for…

Jan 20 2012 10:26am

#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
#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
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

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