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On The Job: Furthering Your Career Starts with Your Resume
Finding the next step in your career path can be the hardest job you ever tackle. If you are not currently working in a firm with a large marketing function and staff, the chances are you can only advance by leaving.If you are going to look outside for your next position, the place to begin is your resume. Bring it up to date with your latest experience. While you are updating it, analyze whether it is telling and selling. Telling your career story is just one part of constructing an effective resume. Selling your experience and its value to your next employer is just as important. Your resume should begin with your current contact information and a brief, bulleted summary of your experience and education. Each time you apply for a position, review your resume and rewrite it to highlight the specific attributes that you think would be most applicable to the position. I also list the position title in the first section information as “Position Objective,” so the hiring authority knows that I have reviewed my data in light of the firm's needs.
Explain the duties of your previous and current positions in active language, with strong verbs and compact task descriptions. Use the official position titles. Avoid listing every responsibility and concentrate on the ones that brought the most work or visibility to you and the firm. I favor listing a specific contact or supervisor right in the position description, but you may choose to withhold that information until the interview. Make sure the dates for the position agree with the personnel records where you worked. If you can't be exact, just list the years you worked.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.