Alex qualified as a solicitor with Carter-Ruck in 1994 and went on to be head of legal for Northern & Shell plc. He also worked for Wiggin, Theodore Goddard and Prisma Sports & Media before, in the early 2000s, opting to combine working as a night lawyer for newspapers with being a freelance journalist.

Alex has advised almost every UK newspaper, and continues to work regularly with The Times, Sunday Times and Guardian. He works with a number of clients in book and magazine publishing, and is an experienced TV lawyer, with credits for legal work on BBC prime time shows and many years’ work for independent production companies on documentaries, comedies, films, music and sports series which have aired on major platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Channel 4 and Discovery.