Harrison emphasizes the importance of having a specialty for marketability.
Specialization is the key to being consistently marketable in your career.
He advises against confusing your resume by listing multiple unrelated specialties.
Instead, focus on one specialty and ensure your experiences align with it.
Law firms and clients prefer candidates who demonstrate a clear and focused expertise.
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Yes, it would help if you had a specialty; anybody with a specialty is marketable. Specialty equals marketability. As long as you have a specialty, you are always marketable.
I would just say to everyone about being marketable and having a specialty. What is significant about having a specialty is that you're always marketable, but what many people will do on their resume is confuse people.
So, especially a younger attorney in one firm, and you did insurance defense; the next firm, you did litigation and some IP transactional work; and then the next firm, you did a little bit of corporate work.
You should be applying for litigation jobs, and when you talk about your insurance defense, you should just say it was litigation-related. Everything should sound litigation instead of putting everything in there because people will be like, wait a minute, that's just a recipe for disaster.
You need to say one thing, and so you need and preferably more focus because most law firms. Clients are looking for focused people.
