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JuliusCaesar
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Resume Question
I am currently a stub year in biglaw and am going to begin applying for clerkships soon. On my resume, how should I list my current position/tasks performed? Since I've only been here over a month, I obviously haven't had the chance to do much substantive work, and I am actually still working on all the things I was initially assigned to so none of it is in the past tense. Do I put "assisting with [matter]" for the things I am working on? Also, how vague should I be in this regard? One matter is an investigation and I have been tasked with various research tasks but no writing, would something like "Assisting with legal research in connection with [agency] investigation" be sufficient?
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The Lsat Airbender
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Re: Resume Question
Present tense is generally fine anyway for your current job on a resume. I'd use the actual present tense though: "Assist," not "Assisting." And yeah, "Assist with legal research in connection with SEC investigation" sounds about right in terms of vagueness. You can always provide more detail in the interview.
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decimalsanddollars
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Re: Resume Question
Agree 100% with Airbender---but I would add emphasis to their note in terms of scope/detail. I would try not to add any more detail than that in a clerkship application resume. Some judges really care about confidentiality, and for a judge like that, a detailed account of the tasks you're currently performing for a client could raise a red flag. Judges who want to know about your work will ask in an interview context, and you won't win or lose the job based on how much you can say you've done on the resume line.
