Tag: Social Media
#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...
How Weird And Frightening Should You Be Allowed To Be On Twitter Before You Get Prosecuted?
Yesterday’s debate on free speech vs regulation of social media – held at London’s Free...
The Solicitors Who Pre-Plan Their Tweets a Week In Advance
A legal PR has revealed that solicitors at his law firm are demanding a weekly...
Law Firm Exclaims ‘Delight’ At Having 43,000 Twitter Followers; Fails To Mention They’re Almost All Fake
In its September newsletter, Blavo & Co Solicitors professes itself “excited and delighted by our...
Twitter Set To Drive ‘Free-Of-Charge Ferrari Through The Horse And Cart World Of Law’
A Twitter legal advice experiment taking place today could prove a turning point for the...
Blogger: ‘At #WSSocialMedia & Law Event. Panel Includes Lawyer Who Threatened To Jail Me For Reporting The Truth’
Legal Cheek roving reporter Cat Pond reviews yesterday’s Weber Shandwick ‘Social Media & the Law’...
How Sticklers For The Norm Could Find Themselves Out Of Luck In The Training Contract Hunt
Earlier this year I got a training contract at a small, reputable firm in Buckinghamshire...
EXCLUSIVE: 4 Breams Buildings Deletes Twitter Account After It Emerges That Most Of Its 15,000 Followers Were Fake
On Wednesday morning, the Twitter account of London criminal set 4 Breams Buildings boasted almost...
‘If @TheDappy Gets Sent Down Today Then We’re All Gonna Go To Guildford Crown Court & Kill The Judge’
The brave new world of social media isn’t working out so well for judges. As...
Tweeting Like It’s 1984: Why Police’s Bright Idea To Ban Anonymous Bloggers Could Herald Orwellian Dystopia
Imagine a world where everything you say and write is stored indefinitely and attributable to...
Cameron McKenna: Inhale The Good Shit, Exhale The Bullshit
Last week, The Lawyer reported that CMS Cameron McKenna is dropping the ‘CMS’ tag and...
A G&T With @LegalTrainee Founder Izzy Abidi
Earlier this week I caught up with Eversheds trainee Izzy Abidi – the brains behind...
‘Does Grindr Count As An Extra-Curricular Activity?’
The other day, desperate for something memorable to put in the gaping ‘outside interests’ section...
Huge Follower Count Of Celebrity Solicitor Dean Dunham Plummets As Fear Spreads About Being Outed for Buying Twitter Disciples
The other week we reported the spectacular – and rather unnatural – growth in the Twitter...
Criminal Justice Guru Mervyn Barrett OBE Certainly Has a Lot Of Twitter Followers…
Mervyn Barrett OBE, who is running to be police and crime commissioner in Lincolnshire, has...
Which Legal Tweeters Have Bought Their Twitter Followers?
Until I read recently that 92% of US politician Newt Gingrich’s Twitter followers had been...
Dear Lady Justice Hallett, Don’t Be Insecure, You Don’t Need Make-Up…
Judging by her blue eye makeup, I’d say that Lady Justice Hallett (pictured) is no...
Why Is There No Fusion Of Time Recording Software With Social Media?
Editorial note: this is the first of a regular series of posts by Legal Cheek’s...
Another Facebook ‘Reverse Auction’ For An LPC Place Ends Instantly – With Minimal Savings For Winning Bidder
The National College of Legal Training (NCLT)’s first Facebook ‘reverse auction’, which took place last...
Going, Gone: Bemusement As Law School’s Facebook LPC Place ‘Reverse Auction’ Is Over In Seconds
Earlier this month, the National College of Legal Training (NCLT) announced, to much fanfare, that...
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...