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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why?  Clients care or no one would do it.  Even a partner 25 years out. Corporate clients want to see a resume they expect.  They could be open to alternatives but most want central casting.  It explains who they are getting.  [/quote]

I am a corporate client. I do not care where my OC went to college and what they majored in. And I don’t care about their law school either. I care that they have deep SME [/quote]

How would you know whether or not the attorney has subject matter expertise ? And what is more important--subject matter expertise or legal skills & knowledge ?

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This is a bizarre question. Because they work in that particular field. Legal work in a major market is highly specialized. Do you actually hire lawyers as outside counsel?? Law school does not give you ‘legal skills and knowledge’ for purposes of real world practice. Some law school clinics and such might, but that won’t be evident by ‘uva law’ on a resume. And I’m not talking about interviewing someone for a job. Obviously then I’d see a resume with education. I’m talking about working with a firm and having a new issue arise for which I need subject matter expertise. Someone will say ‘Jane and Jill are the two best lawyers on that, they did this and that, and represented blah blah and blah blah’ so I will then go talk to them. [/quote]

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