Description:
Harrison Barnes is reviewing an attorney resume who recently graduated as a top 2% of his class rank. He is pretty impressed with his class standing and thinks that the candidate should get plenty of jobs without any doubt. Some advice from Barnes is to stick away from the academics part of his additional experience as most law firms do not like academics. The following are some of the reasons why:
1. Academics don’t know how to practice law.
2. Universities often have outdated curriculums that teach out-of-date skillsets needed by today’s lawyers.
3. They can be expensive because you need both an undergrad degree and a graduate school diploma to become an academician (that means paying tuition twice).
4. Academic jobs require someone who has no experience whatsoever with practicing or even teaching at all.
Transcript:
Daniel van sick. It's not a real name. Okay. So let's take a look at this person. This person graduated. Wow. Top 4%. When did they graduated from law school? Okay. So this person's freshly out of school. This is actually a very good resume. So this first of all, this person needs to proofread and use all this software you can see on the right, which is very important.
This stuff can use to come out. Just as an event, this is great. So this person wow. Class rank top 2%, and then they got a PhD in history. That's amazing. Okay. And then all these bar associations bars. Okay, great. Okay. So I don't know. Wow. I'm looking at this, writing this person.
With academics, when they get into law firms, a lot of times as they just, they don't do well and they don't do well for a variety of reasons, but they and you have to make sure you, this wasn't needs hyphen, this needs, it's just but they don't do well. Don't know what year this person graduated from law school.
Education. But I'm assuming it's fairly recent. And it says here this, he has a or share whatever has this send us from their own firms since 2000 in 2016. And then they were senior attorney in the litigation department. I would just, so I'm assuming that this person graduated in 2016 because they were legal intern in 2015. So the only thing I would recommend is I don't know that this person needs to put general counsel Okay.
So something's off with this resume. I think they just changed all the dates and stuff for it. So I'm just going to pretend like the person graduated in 2015 and just fix this here, but this would be attorney litigation department. One me I'm going to say is people use the term attorney.
They use associate, they use counsel, they use partner. So you should, if you're. An associate you should use the term associate, not attorney because people will assume that you may not actually be an attorney. They may not be an associate there, so you just need to be careful about how you do all this.
And and then all this stuff introduced high level strategies. I don't think you need to put an all bad. And then legal intern, 2015. Yeah, that looks like this person really didn't graduate. Or when it's in that year, I don't know why they would be a senior attorney.
And then and then additional experiences, the academic Dean of online learning again, law firms do not like academics. So I would try to stick away from that. It's actually okay. To have a PhD. But there's no I've seen no College on here either. What law firms don't want is they don't want to hire someone.
