How to Make a Candidate Having Good but Confidential Experiences In Demand Speaker 1:[00:00:00] Thanks for the presentation and in my experience, marketing yourself as in demand really makes a difference. I'm an attorney with no law firm experience but more than five years experience at white collar enforcement as a contractor for the DOJ and an investigator for FINRA. I have a lot of experience working on front page news cases. I want to transition to a law firm in white collar defense, but I have trouble trying to market my experience when the cases I've worked on are confidential. How can I make my experience in demand?
Typically, you'll talk in generalities. You'll say, "Represented a major company against blah, blah, blah. Received a record for judgment many times." Especially if you're working as a contractor, you will have reviews. And so you can talk about the statements from your reviews. You can talk about the promotions you may have received. You can talk about promotions received. You can talk about trial experience. You got all those sorts of things that make you stick out and much better.
And then my idea would be to find a firm. Anything to do with FINRA would be useful in either defense or as a plaintiff. And so just making [00:01:00] sure that you investigate firms that do that. Those are going to be the people who are going to be most interested in you. Just general white collar defense will involve things like fraud or other types of economic frauds. And you want to find firms that do this sort of work you do. So I would do a search for whatever type of cases you've worked on. I would do a search for firms that advertise themselves. Firms that advertise themselves on their websites, doing the kind of work you do.
So that's how I would do that. And then I would contact people inside the law firms doing the work. I'm assuming there's no conflict about possibility of informational interviews. But I would do that. I hope that helps. You could have a follow up question and have it answered too.
