Litigation

One of our watchdog projects for this year has been to clean up the credential puffery and resume omissions or truth stretching (on LInkedIn) that has gone on for far too long in the settlement industry.

While reading the ABA Journal online I came across an excellent article simply titled "Keep Your Resume Honest". The following are two poignant excerpts:

"In the age of e-resumes and data systems that store millions upon millions of historical documents, recruiters and employers now have the ability to look longitudinally at information in resumes provided by candidates over many years and map the "content drift" of this information. This provides an entirely new way of determining a candidate's veracity when it comes to his or her employment history". Deborah Ben-Canaan and Martha Fay Africa  The Recorder  September 22, 2009

?Candidates may think that stretching the truth a little bit is not a big deal, but it is,? the article says. ?We have heard lawyers tell us that they only worked in a job for a few months, so they left it off their resumé, or they had a bad experience in that job, so it was left off the resumé and then dates were stretched to cover any resumé ?gaps.? This is deceit, plain and simple.? (underline added for emphasis)