Eve Cornwell

[strawberry1235]

Wish I'd seen this earlier but a wide range of interesting and varied comments on this Roll On Friday article...

One moment, please...

Good points made-
"I think legal cheek runs several credulous stories about what legal influencers eat for breakfast every week"
"Legal Cheek writers delete and alter the comments all the time at least on here people can say what they think and be honest."

"Was more suggesting legal influencers may not be as cut out for law as they proclaim, particularly after leaving within 4 months of qualifying…
I mean logically, their talents lie with marketing if they’ve built up such a fan base and converted so many people to follow their career choice."

 

[YellowLadybird]

Wish I'd seen this earlier but a wide range of interesting and varied comments on this Roll On Friday article...

One moment, please...

Good points made-
"I think legal cheek runs several credulous stories about what legal influencers eat for breakfast every week"
"Legal Cheek writers delete and alter the comments all the time at least on here people can say what they think and be honest."

"Was more suggesting legal influencers may not be as cut out for law as they proclaim, particularly after leaving within 4 months of qualifying…
I mean logically, their talents lie with marketing if they’ve built up such a fan base and converted so many people to follow their career choice."

I mean this is really the one that had me spitting out my tea and it's not even a comment, just the article itself:

Her move will come as a relief to some colleagues at Linklaters, one of whom told RollOnFriday, "there isn't a single person I know who works here who doesn't visibly cringe upon seeing her videos"

Absolutely savage.

 

[strawberry1235]

I mean this is really the one that had me spitting out my tea and it's not even a comment, just the article itself:

Her move will come as a relief to some colleagues at Linklaters, one of whom told RollOnFriday, "there isn't a single person I know who works here who doesn't visibly cringe upon seeing her videos"

Absolutely savage.

Oh God, I don't know how I missed that

 

[LetsTalk09088]

Love how the username is 'oh for crying out loud'

 

[Dear Reader]

Wish I'd seen this earlier but a wide range of interesting and varied comments on this Roll On Friday article...

One moment, please...

Good points made-
"I think legal cheek runs several credulous stories about what legal influencers eat for breakfast every week"
"Legal Cheek writers delete and alter the comments all the time at least on here people can say what they think and be honest."

"Was more suggesting legal influencers may not be as cut out for law as they proclaim, particularly after leaving within 4 months of qualifying…
I mean logically, their talents lie with marketing if they’ve built up such a fan base and converted so many people to follow their career choice."

"If anything, curious to know how the salary compares. As a "manager", she will probably be making somewhere between a trainee and an NQ with drastically reduced hours. My guess: £70-75k with strict 40 hours a week Mon-Fri."

 

[Lola123]

"If anything, curious to know how the salary compares. As a "manager", she will probably be making somewhere between a trainee and an NQ with drastically reduced hours. My guess: £70-75k with strict 40 hours a week Mon-Fri."

Bloody hell! I’m in the wrong job no wonder she can now post so much to Instagram like a tit, she’s got all that free time (in comparison to before)

 

[DimpleFace]

“Entering 2022 in product management challenges me to design, build and most importantly - disrupt", said Cornwell.”

Jesus as if she said that- she’s not “disrupting” anything she’s building a bloody contracts system .Literally the most boring least disruptive thing she could do.

Bloody hell! I’m in the wrong job no wonder she can now post so much to Instagram like a tit, she’s got all that free time (in comparison to before)

Her company headhunted that role for around 40k-50k so suspect she’s on around that. She’s essentially back on trainee salary.

 

[sheleg]

“Disrupt”!! What this means is making a stupid suggestion as the new girl, and having the rest of the team politely reject it and carry on doing things the way they’re done because it works.

 

[LetsTalk09088]

Writing you're going to 'disrupt' things like you're the main character in a coming of age film is realllly cringe worthy lmao.

 

[sheleg]

Writing you're going to 'disrupt' things like you're the main character in a coming of age film is realllly cringe worthy lmao.

She ought to show some humility and respect to the team she’ll be working in/under. Otherwise she’s going to get people’s backs up.

 

[getawaywithit]

I think she means disrupt as in, the technology she works with is ~disrupting the industry. But like, she worked on a new document reader software? Lol. She just wants to frame her job as something progressive and radical, but the reality is that she works an extremely corporate, unexciting job. And if she likes it, that’s great and all that matters. But idk why she has to pretend she’s transforming the legal profession.

 

[hannah123]

Wish I'd seen this earlier but a wide range of interesting and varied comments on this Roll On Friday article...

One moment, please...

Good points made-
"I think legal cheek runs several credulous stories about what legal influencers eat for breakfast every week"
"Legal Cheek writers delete and alter the comments all the time at least on here people can say what they think and be honest."

"Was more suggesting legal influencers may not be as cut out for law as they proclaim, particularly after leaving within 4 months of qualifying…
I mean logically, their talents lie with marketing if they’ve built up such a fan base and converted so many people to follow their career choice."

Out of curiosity what is the standard path of someone that gets a training contract in law? Is it you qualify and just stay at the firm?

If you train in accounting at the big 4, the point about someone leaving within 4 months of qualifying is not out of the ordinary, in fact more leave in the first year of qualifying than stay.

 

[miagia]

Out of curiosity what is the standard path of someone that gets a training contract in law? Is it you qualify and just stay at the firm?

If you train in accounting at the big 4, the point about someone leaving within 4 months of qualifying is not out of the ordinary, in fact more leave in the first year of qualifying than stay.

There is a lot of moving but usually (if you get an NQ job you want at the firm you trained at) you tend to stay for 2/3 years at least...and then there is another exodus at senior associate level when people realise they aren't going to be/don't want to be partner.

 

[DimpleFace]

Out of curiosity what is the standard path of someone that gets a training contract in law? Is it you qualify and just stay at the firm?

If you train in accounting at the big 4, the point about someone leaving within 4 months of qualifying is not out of the ordinary, in fact more leave in the first year of qualifying than stay.

People tend to move around a lot in law. At MC the attrition rates are fairly poor. Most people between 1 to 3PQE will have left to go in-house, to a US firm or to a smaller firm- or leave the profession all together. What is uncommon is to leave the job after 3 months, particularly if you have made a career of romanticising the profession on YouTube.

 

[Megansnarkle]

Out of curiosity what is the standard path of someone that gets a training contract in law? Is it you qualify and just stay at the firm?

If you train in accounting at the big 4, the point about someone leaving within 4 months of qualifying is not out of the ordinary, in fact more leave in the first year of qualifying than stay.

Normally NQ jobs start being discussed/coming up for application a few months before qualification. In a big firm trainees will apply for vacancies in the team they want to qualify into or start looking at other firms (assuming they want to stay in the law). Once they start as an NQ, standard notice periods are three months (unless negotiated down).

 

[DimpleFace]

Normally NQ jobs start being discussed/coming up for application a few months before qualification. In a big firm trainees will apply for vacancies in the team they want to qualify into or start looking at other firms (assuming they want to stay in the law). Once they start as an NQ, standard notice periods are three months (unless negotiated down).

Yup most notice periods are a few months, meaning when Eve qualified in Sept she likely handed in her notice within a few weeks. It’s so wrong that she took a qualification place from someone else.

I wonder when going to stop using “Lawyer” in all her bios. SRA can pull her up for that considering she’s not practicing anymore

 

[hannah123]

Ahhh okay, yes very different then. I knew people who worked at the big 4 who resigned a couple of weeks before final exam results so they’d qualify and leave a couple of weeks later, no one would think anything of it or think you’d taken someone’s place. I presumed law would maybe follow a similar path as accounting because the set up of being bottom heavy with grads up to a few partners in that kind of pyramid shape is the same.

 

[miagia]

Yup most notice periods are a few months, meaning when Eve qualified in Sept she likely handed in her notice within a few weeks. It’s so wrong that she took a qualification place from someone else.

I wonder when going to stop using “Lawyer” in all her bios. SRA can pull her up for that considering she’s not practicing anymore

I wonder if her notice period was reduced down quite considerably given she's still working for LL. I reckon it probably was

 

[jiggy_girl]

To be honest I don't blame her for leaving. I'm just finishing my law degree and I can't imagine doing that, the LPC, a masters and being expected to work the hours they work in big firms. It would kill most people's enthusiasm for the job

 

[Lola123]

I wonder if her notice period was reduced down quite considerably given she's still working for LL. I reckon it probably was

I reckon it’s counted as a secondment so she went a lot quicker which will turn into a full time perm job