Welcome to the Legal Resume Review blog.
While Legal Resume Review has been active for over a decade, I never really thought that attorneys and law students would want to read a blog about legal resumes. When I founded the company back in 2010, I figured that the busy professionals would want a place that would help them get their resumes – the most important tool in their career toolbox – in the best shape possible. Over the years we have helped attorneys improve their resume for clarity, consistency and effectiveness. We’ve helped attorneys all over the United States, attorneys working overseas and even foreign attorneys looking to enter the United States legal job market. Most importantly, we’ve helped those attorneys improve their resumes to get those highly-competitive jobs!
Our services have always been provided with the hope of helping others. In 2010, I was a former practicing attorney and had been in the legal recruiting industry for over 10 years. I realized that I had a unique position in the market in that I was looking at an incredible number of attorney resumes AND I could also see who was getting interviews based on those resumes. I wasn’t thinking about resumes in a vacuum like other resume service providers, I was seeing how the resumes actually helped attorneys get in position to get their dream job. What was incredibly clear was that attorneys who had excellent skills were losing out on the opportunity to interview at top firms and companies because of their poorly-drafted resume.
It wasn’t their fault. There really is no resource for attorneys to learn about their resume. A legal resume isn’t the same as a resume for someone in management. Many attorneys simply rely on the templates provided by their word processer. This results in poorly-drafted resumes that fall flat in the legal market.
That’s where we stepped in. We’ve expanded, updated our website, learned what works and what doesn’t when it comes to online reviews and continued to listen to the legal job market to think about what makes sense in legal resumes. We have raised our standard when hiring reviewers and we’ve pivoted and doubled down when it was appropriate as a business. And based on our desire to be responsive to YOUR needs, we’re changing again.
What started as a dull murmur has grown into a loud roar. You’ve asked for a resource for legal resumes because there really isn’t one on the internet. You asked for a blog with helpful, actionable tips on legal resumes. We hear you and it’s my pleasure to launch this blog.
If you have a suggestion or a question that you’d like to see addressed in a future blog, please email it to me at craig@legalresumereview.com.
Thank you for your continued trust in Legal Resume Review!
-Craig Sandok
Founder – Legal Resume Review