Category: Podcast

Is soaring NQ pay impacting trainee retention rates?
The Legal Cheek team discuss NQ salaries, retention rates, financial results and a petition to reform the SQE — listen now 🎙️

Will AI really replace paralegals?
The Legal Cheek team discuss AI and the future of legal jobs — listen now 🎙️

Should aspiring lawyers embrace AI? Decoding the mixed messages
The Legal Cheek team explore the conflicting range of advice on AI – listen now 🎙️

Should law firms stand up to Trump?
The Legal Cheek team ask how law firms should react to Trump's hostile executive orders – listen now 🎙️

Will DeepSeek get you a training contract?
The Legal Cheek team contemplate using AI for law applications — listen now 🎙️

Regional junior lawyer salaries reach record high
The Legal Cheek team discuss Simmons' new and improved £96k NQ pay in Bristol -- listen now 🎙️

The truth about junior lawyers’ crazy hours
The Legal Cheek team discuss junior lawyers' worst working days — listen now 🎙️

LinkedIn limits: The perils of oversharing for aspiring lawyers
The Legal Cheek podcast asks how law students should be using the platform — listen now 🎙️

Charlotte Proudman’s incredible David v Goliath win
The Legal Cheek team discusses the big legal news stories of last week -- listen now 🎙️

Do junior lawyers care too much about money?
Sky-high salaries for newly qualified solicitors, problems with the SQE and £44 billion turnover for the UK's legal services sector -- listen now 🎙️

Podcast: Three legal stories you need to know about
Potential funding cuts to solicitor apprenticeships, transatlantic mergers, and the criminal bar exodus -- listen now 🎙️

The story of corporate law from 1978 until 2024
How big law firms evolved into what they are today

Corporate law and the 2008 financial crash
Podcast: Former Magic Circle dealmaker Alan Paul looks back on the chaos that ensued in the following years 🎙️

The transformation of corporate law through the 90s and into the new millennium
Podcast: Ex-Magic Circle partner Alan Paul delves into his time as a top City dealmaker in the period that witnessed the rise of New Labour, the dot-com bubble and the Y2K bug 🎙️

What was corporate law like in the 1980s?
Podcast: Legendary City dealmaker Alan Paul remembers his journey from trainee to partner in the era of miner's strikes, Thatcher and punk 🎙️

Law school during the pandemic
A BPP student explains why she and some fellow LPCers aren’t happy

Legal Cheek Podcast: How to become a confident public speaker
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The Legal Cheek Podcast: 3 essential skills for junior lawyers
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The Legal Cheek Podcast: Why failure is just a form of feedback
We sit down with private equity partner Richard Youle ?

Legal Cheek Podcast: How aspiring lawyers can make the most of lockdown
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