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[quote=Anonymous]Most firm webpages are starting to be more "results oriented" on their attorney bios, so check your colleagues or peer firms in your practice area and see what they are saying.  If you're in litigation, probably stuff about "successfully arguing" in front of x, y z court or listing other specific successful outcomes at various levels in trial. If in corporate, "represented fortune 500 company on acquisition of X, Y Z". If regulatory, "successfully petitioned for X, y z on behalf of Fortune 500 company".  At 8 years out in law school, you probably don't have too much direct "results" to talk about, because you're usually still assisting on pieces of bigger projects. But if you check firm bios, they have ways to craft this language - like "participated in successful litigation" or whatever that sort of skirts the issue that you weren't directly responsible for the outcome.  I think at 8 years out of law school, potential employers are more interested in the scope of experience you have and less interested in results. So use the various examples above both to convey your "results" (to the extent you can) but also to describe a variety of different experiences/expertises.  So if you're in litigation, make sure that one bullet conveys your trial experience (successfully litigated X), one conveys regulatory agency experience (assisted fortune 500 company in FOIA whatever request related to discovery with government agency), one conveys research skills (led research team on x, y and z), one conveys arbitration (successful outcome for fortune 500 client at international arbitration of medical device lawsuit), etc. I am not in litigation so I'm making up all those items - no idea if they are real things in litigation. But you get the idea.  Obviously craft to meet the requirements of the job you're applying to. [/quote]

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