• Sample Litigation Resume
• Sample Corporate Resume
• Preparing a resume addendum can help to highlight the particular experience you have had and the responsibilities you assumed. The addendum is usually in the form of a case or transaction summary and can be divided up by type of case/transaction. It can also be organized functionally by skill (e.g. Motion Practice, Discovery, Trial Practice). Preparing such a summary is also a useful exercise in helping you to take stock in what you have done to date. It also helps to prepare you for an interview

• make sure at least one other person proofreads your resume
• have a few versions for the different kinds of jobs that you are considering
• in addition to your general responsibilities, try to list specific examples of your accomplishments. Include case names if they might be recognized by the intended reader
• put the most important information first. Typically, this means putting education below your work experience. It can also mean putting dates in a less prominent place. For an example of this see my training resume
• where possible, and if impressive, try to quantify your accomplishments (e.g. "extensive corporate transactional experience including significant involvement in over 50 mergers;" "drafted and argued over 100 motions")
• don't obsess about whether your resume should be one or two pages. Anyone who proclaims that resumes should never be more than one page may be right with respect to some readers, but entirely wrong with respect to others
• try to do something to make your resume stand out of the pack, realizing that attorneys reading the resume will not react well to something that is too unusual
• use language and formatting to emphasize what you think is important and de-emphasize what is not really important (in my training resume, I emphasize activities and accomplishments that lead the reader to the conclusion that I know how to design training for lawyers. I have not overly emphasized my experience as a mediator.) You may want to consider attaching a selected list of transactions that you have worked on, a description of their magnitude and something impressive about your role

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