What does Harrison Barnes Like and Not Like on An Attorney Resume?

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• The composition of the resume looks like the person is an excellent attorney.


• Only focused on one good law firm. Not making the mistake of putting a lot of information that could overwhelm the reader.


• The attorney did not talk about all the firms he practiced. (If you list 4 to 5 firms, it gives an impression that you are a job-hopper.)

What Harrison Barnes Does Not Like

• You are placing your experience and skills at the top part of the resume. (When you start putting in a lot of things, it looks pretty desperate to some extent.)


• Education is also placed at the top. (This should always be placed at the end of the resume when you are more than five years out of law school.)


• You need not put in the word “Highlights.” The bullet points are already showing the highlights.


• No need to overshare information like who recruited you or if you are the “first-ever” or “the best.”

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Okay. So this particular resume as you guys may be aware I, anytime I see all this sort of stuff at the top it makes me a little nervous and because it does smack of and th this is very common or for corporate related resumes to have this sort of information, this person, by the way, looks like a very good attorney.

I can just from looking at the resume. And but there's some things that should be done. And here we go. You start to look at their their

You start looking at their resume and the stuff that they've done. Let's see. This looks like a new recipe. What I like about this by the way, what this person did here is this person talked about their law firm experience. They just say that they practicing for firms. They don't talk about all of them.

And then and then they talk about their experience, which looks to me like this person is basically a IP attorney and that's what they did in this position. I actually liked what they did here. Because many times if you list four or five firms, it just looks like your job hopper.

This person's not a job hopper, but because they've the four firms in 12 years, I state or at a firm probably every three years, they probably, and they put down one good firm, really good firm that they were at. And so that's good. I liked that I would in terms of this this is pretty good too as well.

Their experience, the way they put this down and the dates so that's good. I like that. But I think almost that everything potentially could it stop here? I don't know that all this experience and stuff at the top here is necessary. I don't think that this is I, and this is my style of resumes but a lot of times when you start putting all this stuff in, it's just, it looks quite, desperate to some extent.

So I would recommend probably putting all this stuff closer in here then I would probably take if you're in eligible for, in house concert, registration in Massachusetts you should make sure that that you're every most people that have bars in different states are eligible to be in house council in most states.

That's not something you really need to worry about. And so I, I think that also you have to be careful about putting that in places if you're applying to places other than them, and then your education should always go. At the end of your resume like this when you're more than five years out of school.

And then I don't know if that you need to say highlights these are obviously highlights, so you don't need to do that. Let me just do that a different way.

Yeah. But I don't know if you need, you don't necessarily need to say those are highlights. You just do it that way. And then but if you look at this resume, I it looks like it's there's a lot of things. No, there's a lot of very good things about it. I don't think you need to a lot of times people say the first ever and that sort of thing, I don't know if you need to do that or who you recruited by.

I would just say wow,

in-house counsel for a lot of times, this is something that very high achievement people do. They always try to stay on the first or the best or and that sort of thing. So I just we're I would hope you would report to the CEO and attend board meetings. I don't know that you need to put that on there.

And it could be a small company. No one knows. So this is a good resume. I think the only question here is, is if you Would want to be if you don't say I would just say law firm experience after, when you say words like foundational experience, like people start assuming, that, you're putting words in their mouth, so you just want to be very direct about that.

I don't know that, company wide and play a resource and networking group for women. I guess that's okay. But I like a lot of times just focusing on kind of the business aspects of what you're doing and and all this is very good the way this is done here.

So I liked this resume a lot. I think if you been up these things, okay.