According to a recent study, 57% of the AMLAW 200 law firms that were studied are now hiring fully-remote “virtual” attorneys from other geographic markets. Nearly 20% more firms were considering hiring virtual, remote attorneys in other markets. If you want to be ready to capitalize on this fluidity, having a resume ready makes a lot of sense!
Read MoreA question we often get is how to deal with gaps on the resume. It’s been a difficult thing to discuss. Perhaps it’s about to get a bit easier with LInkedIn’s new feature.
Read MoreSome firms have begun to offer jobs WITHOUT interviews. Is your resume ready?
Read MoreIf you are cleaning up your resume so you can participate in this incredibly hot legal job market, isn’t it time that you dust off your list of references, too? Here’s how references are looked at by recruiters and employers.
Read MoreYou may not be interested in making a move at this time, but your future-self just might thank you for staying prepared and having an up-to-date resume together!
Read MoreHow should remote work be reflected on a legal resume? We discuss it in this blog post.
Read MoreWhat if you have a severely under-inflated title? If you are Counsel or Associate General Counsel when you have the job that would normally be considered the GC, Deputy GC or Divisional GC? How do you discuss your work on your resume without the fear of being rejected based solely on your title?
Read MoreAh, the grade point average. At some point, you don’t have to worry about it in your legal resume, right? Not so fast. Dealing with GPAs are a sensitive issue. We discuss this topic here.
Read MoreTo say the market is upside down right now is not an understatement. If you are an M&A or general corporate attorney at a big firm, you’ve likely fielded your ninth recruiter call of the day before you finish your second cup of coffee (and there will be plenty of coffee in your future). The Independence Day holiday is a great time to get your resume polished and ready to go!
Read MoreMany law firms are asking about personal information (gender identity, disability status, race, veteran status) at the initial point of contact. We discuss how to deal with these disclosures and whether or not to put them on your resume (hint: you don’t)!
Read MoreOne of the questions we are regularly asked is how to deal with layoffs on a resume, and how to deal with pandemic layoffs in particular. While the panic at law firms and corporate in-house legal departments during the pandemic made sense at the time, the market has stabilized and now many attorneys who lost their jobs in 2020 are starting to re-enter the legal job market.
Read MoreLegal resumes aren’t long documents, so you have to use adjectives and other modifiers to signal to the reader the depth of your experience. You can’t list all of your litigation experience on the document (that would be a curriculum vitae). Instead, you summarize, qualify and categorize your experience so the reader can digest it. We discuss the importance of choosing the right descriptive words in your legal resume.
Read MoreWe are asked time and time again about what the key to an effective legal resume is. The answer is always the same. It’s that your resume (and certainly your cover letter) should answer the question: WHY YOU?
Read MoreResumes are not repositories for ALL of your honors and activities. They are curated collections that tell a story. We discuss what can fall off a resume when it is getting too long.
Read MoreWe discuss how to address a cover letter and avoid archaic language.
Read MoreCongratulations! You’ve just been promoted at your current employer. That’s great….but how should you reflect that on your legal resume?
Read MoreThoughts on fonts and legal resumes.
Read MoreIn what is sure to be an ongoing discussion here at LegalResumeReview, here are a few things that we see every day that you should remove from your legal resume….
Read MoreA discussion about how attorneys should handle potentially polarizing entries on your resume.
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