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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doc review is not "keeping your hand in the pot." It's a career killer. I would only do it if you never plan on going back to a real legal job one day.

-Doc reviewer of over 10 yrs[/quote]

Can you please explain?  Does document review not entail any real legal work?  I would think at least there wouldn't be any major gaps on my resume.[/quote]

DP here.  Rightly or wrongly (often wrongly) it's considered very low-skill work for attorneys who couldn't find anything better.  It's not a resume builder.  [/quote]

It is pretty low-skill legal work.  Some people do it because it can have very flexible hours, but for the most part it is people who couldn't find anything better.  It also tends to be mind numbingly boring and quite often the working conditions (for a white collar job) can be pretty miserable.[/quote]

Oh yes, agreed, but there is a mini-generation of lawyers who graduated in the 2005-2009 era who simply couldn't find other work when they graduated, and now can't progress to anything else because that's the only experience they have.  It's not necessarily a reflection of their inherent abilities, so much as the market when they graduated.  Similar situation for women coming back from long SAHM breaks, people who followed their spouse's job, etc.[/quote]

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