Right after graduation, I needed money badly, so I took a contract document review gig thinking it would just be for a few weeks. Two years later, I’m still stuck in the e-discovery basement. I want to transition into a real associate role at a firm. Should I scrub the doc review projects from my resume entirely and focus on my law school clinics, or is there a way to make e-discovery look better?

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I’m no expert, but I’d think having some legal work like doc review on your resume is better than having a gap (which you’d have to explain in interviews anyways).

Also, fwiw, I’m in a “real” associate role and so burned out after a few years that I WISH I could do doc review work. Not even joking, if your company is hiring, hmu!

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Man, I feel for you. I did the same thing when I graduated in 2011. My first “real” job was for a small firm who was advertising on Craigslist. It turned out to be pretty shady and just burned through associates. But it got me in contact with the legal community and I was able to find another job through other lawyers I met. Good luck!!

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Don’t scrub it, just focus on the transferable skills that you learned from the doc review job

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