The other day I met Ari Kaplan, author of Reinventing Professional Services, in the lavish surroundings of the St Pancras Hotel in London. Ari recorded this little videoclip of me speaking about my new venture, LegalCheek.com

We have moved — LegalCheek.com now hosts the #RoundMyKitchenTable podcast

Nov 21st, 2011

Alex, Kevin and their equalling entertaining guests from the legal world have moved to Legal Cheek. The podcasts go live every Friday morning. To listen to previous ones, or read the transcripts (supplied by StretLaw.com), click here.

LAWYERS WITHOUT RIGHTS

Oct 30th, 2011

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Stories of Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany are both tragic and inspiring Sitting in the reception room of the Law Society’s representative office in Brussels last week (where I was covering a conference), I happened upon a

Round my kitchen table: Tesco law – stacking shelves by night, giving legal advice by day?

Oct 14th, 2011

How will the Legal Services Act affect law students and junior lawyers? Is a law degree a better bet than the GDL conversion course? What’s it like to be the only person in Doncaster wearing a suit? College of Law LPC student Cat Pond, City la

Round my kitchen table: is the Roll on Friday generation dead?

Oct 7th, 2011

Associate lawyers Jo Martin and Kevin Poulter ponder the changing mood at the junior end of the legal profession, with a little prompting from me.[buzzsprout episode="33074" player="true"][buzzsprout episode="33074" player="true"]Transcrip

Round my kitchen table: being a gay lawyer

Sep 30th, 2011

Bar Professional Training Course graduate Adam Fellows, who was called to the bar in July, debates LGBT networks and other issues affecting gay lawyers with Kevin Poulter, one of the founders of the Gay Employment Lawyers Network, while I pour

Round my kitchen table: the real way to get a training contract

Sep 23rd, 2011

Regular guest Kevin Poulter, an employment lawyer at Bircham Dyson Bell, tells LPC graduate Krish Nair, who has a 2.1 from Edinburgh University, the real way to land a training contract – in 7 snappy minutes of high quality stereo.With a litt

Round my kitchen table PODCAST: lawyers on Twitter

Sep 16th, 2011

Are tweeters fair game for journos? Following a spot of controversy over my Guardian law piece on tweeting lawyers, I chat over a bottle of wine with Emily Jupp, a social media journalist at The Independent, who, amongst other things, is respo

Round my kitchen table PODCAST: having a face that fits

Sep 9th, 2011

This week, we’re discussing the importance of having a face that fits in law. With me is the head of the Legal Awareness Society of BPP Law School who tweets at @legalaware, and my regular guest, the employment law guru Kevin Poulter of c

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