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Don't let inexperience keep you out of the legal game – foreign lawyers should consider adding any relevant qualifications or certifications to stand out during interviews here in America. For example, one way is by including what's called "transaction sheets" on your resume; these documents illustrate how many transactions were handled under specific circumstances such as litigation or negotiation cases.
It is not limited to foreign attorneys. Some legal professionals add a transaction sheet on their resumes to show the work scope in law school. Junior lawyers with limited experience may not have many highlights, so listing accomplishments is an easy way for them to stand out from other applicants. They can also tailor this section based on what type of firm or employer they're targeting and how much knowledge about that job function they want to be displayed for prospective employers.
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Okay. Let's see here.
This person has another foreign resume hello lab. Okay.
Wow. This is a lot of transactions. Let's see, what's going on here.
This person is now legal intern. They were for several months premature learning. Ms transactions you'd actually liked the transaction sheet. I think that this should go on a separate page. So a lot of times attorneys do transaction sheets, and I think it's a good idea for you to do a transaction sheet. And I think it's, especially that idea many times if you're a foreign attorney to do them, but also any corporate attorney, it's always good idea to do a transaction sheets.
And then a lot of times, this, these bars and things are fine. The big question though when, anytime someone's interviewing a foreign attorneys, they're always going to be someone that's familiar, they're going to be concerned about, are they going to stay if they come and all those sorts of things?
My advice really, if you have a resume, that's this is a specialist, you got a lot of corporate work and is to try to apply to smaller corporate firms. And and really, you have to show up many times a person and go in and just, show yourself and say, I'm, I'm a corporate attorney, I've got all this experience.
I can do this. I've taken the bar and taking the bar and and you can get jobs outweigh. It's just, it's very difficult. There are some firms in New York that do take chances and have programs for foreign attorneys that it's not easy to get into them. It's not the easiest thing.
I like this resume and I think this person looks like a great attorney. It's just, it's very difficult for you to transition into everything. I would the issue here is, you're doing different types of work. So I would I would try to, if you were doing you need, your resume, needs to be focused on a practice here, whether that's anti-trust or something, I would love to love it to be corporate.
It looks like you did a lot of things here. So however you can focus that would be very helpful. It's very difficult to break into a new market like the us, especially I'm assuming you might be in New York city, looks like you are. It's very difficult. But take a look at what we're talking about also the American resumes, because that can be very helpful as well.
Okay. I don't know that I like the stuff about the evening division, nothing wrong with that. It's just, I don't know. The people always need to see that. And maybe you do have to put that. I don't know what the rule is. Let's see director.
Okay. So a lot of these societies and things I think a lot of times are unnecessary, so it just clogs things up and, people care about your grades to some extent, but they don't necessarily care about all these activities. Now, if you're editor-in-chief of something that's great.
But I don't know, again I think a lot of these things can come off. Let's see here reviewed the merit scholarship. I don't know what this stuff is. If you're on a first place team, I don't know that's necessary. So just be very careful about listing a lot of these things.
And then again, the GPA, if that, I don't know that GPA puts you in the top of your class, but if it doesn't, there's no reason to draw my attention to it. Same thing with everything you did in college, like you want to draw attention to things that look really good, but not necessarily anything that points to any form of mediocrity.
If you're applying for jobs in DTC, that's great. But do you don't want to list Virginia if you're applying for jobs in in Virginia, it's just, in if you're applying for jobs in Virginia, then it's great that you're studying for the July bar exam, but if you're applying for jobs in DC, there's no reason to list you're applying for Virginia, I guess a lot of firms in pre-interview like it could see here.
