Surviving a Slow Legal Market: Enhancing Marketability Strategies

Description

• Harrison emphasizes the importance of having a specialty for marketability.
• Specialization is the key to being consistently marketable in your career.
• He advises against confusing your resume by listing multiple unrelated specialties.
• Instead, focus on one specialty and ensure your experiences align with it.
• Law firms and clients prefer candidates who demonstrate a clear and focused expertise.

Transcript

Transcript:

Yes, it would help if you had a specialty; anybody with a specialty is marketable. Specialty equals marketability. As long as you have a specialty, you are always marketable.

I would just say to everyone about being marketable and having a specialty. What is significant about having a specialty is that you're always marketable, but what many people will do on their resume is confuse people.

So, especially a younger attorney in one firm, and you did insurance defense; the next firm, you did litigation and some IP transactional work; and then the next firm, you did a little bit of corporate work.

You should be applying for litigation jobs, and when you talk about your insurance defense, you should just say it was litigation-related. Everything should sound litigation instead of putting everything in there because people will be like, wait a minute, that's just a recipe for disaster.

You need to say one thing, and so you need and preferably more focus because most law firms. Clients are looking for focused people.