Advice re: resume

[elleng]

Retired attorney. Re-drafting resume after years, wondering whether I can/should eliminate dates, as my last 'job' was in 2006. (Looking to work as volunteer.)

Include 'retired?'

Thanks

[trof]

1. Volunteers are usually HAPPILY accepted without reservations.

What sort of situation are you volunteering for?
I've done some volunteer work, and the organization is usually just damned glad to have you work for them.

On edit: All they've cared about was that I was willing to do a job.

[elleng]

2. The Innocence Project

http://www.exonerate.org/how-to-help/volunteer/lawyers-and-attorneys/

Looking forward to getting into something meaningful; hope you're correct, trof.

[trof]

3. Whoa! That's some serious stuff.

You may be actually practicing law with a life in the balance.
Not at all like volunteering to be treasurer for the local Friends of the Library.
I'd just be honest in your resume'.
Best of luck.
Good cause.

[elleng]

4. Yes, its serious stuff, and why I went to law school!

Thanks

[Chan790]

5. Here in DC?

I don't think they're going to care about dates as much as whether you'd be willing to return to active practice at-least on-paper, pay your bar dues to up-to-present and your track-record as a lawyer...a good lawyer doesn't become a mediocre lawyer as time passes in retirement. If you were a brutal and efficient hard-nosed persevering bulldog of a courtroom litigator before you retired, you're going to still be one now. If you were a great research attorney with an encyclopedic knowledge of the law, you might have to brush up but you're still going to be one now. If you wrote great briefs and motions...you still do. If you have a nose for details and science...you still do.

Talent doesn't go away.

Edit: I say here in DC because it seems likely you'd more likely end up on federal cases here rather than state cases if you were someplace like TX or FL.

[elleng]

6. Mid-Atlantic: DC, MD, VA.

Hope they see it your way, Chan, and still have the need.