I hope everyone had a great week! This evening I will be introducing the concept of professional portfolios and how professional portfolios are relevant in the legal field when being a lawyer.
Professional portfolios are a collection of important documents of your work over the years. The work can include assignments done in college that relate to your career, or you can display work that has shown growth in a professional aspect and present your personal skills. Professional portfolios are also visuals of how much a person has grown throughout a professional career. Many portfolios are becoming e-portfolios, which means- they are found and accessed online.
Why Make Professional Portfolio?
A professional portfolio allows the creator to display their qualifications and should be a extension of their work/school resume. While creating a professional portfolio, it will help the creator learn more at themselves and look at previous work they have done over the years that they may have never paid attention to. A professional portfolio also allows the creator to realize what their goals are in life and how they wish to achieve them. It's also an easy way to keep track of your growth as a professional and an individual. You will find out more about yourself when you are able to visually see all of your accomplished in one portfolio. You may also find that you have achieved more than you thought you have and that your skill set is stronger than you believed.
What Should be in a Professional Portfolio?
When creating a professional portfolio, there are specific categories you must include for your portfolio to achieve its goal in impressing the company/business you are interested in working for. First, you must include an appealing cover page, the cover page is what the reviewers first see during the reviewing process. After, a table a context will be included after the cover page to help the reviewer navigate through the portfolio and see where specific sections are located. An introduction is to follow after the table of context. The introduction will introduce who you are, your goals, and what your professional interest include. First impressions are everything, so make sure your introduction has the "wow" effect to the reviewer and always include something about yourself that the viewer cannot forget! After concluding your introduction, add your personal credentials. Your personal credentials are your resume, references, and evaluations you may have from previous professors in college or an old job. Lastly, you include your best work yet. This includes related coursework to your desired career or projects you are proud of that you feel deserve to get shown off to the reviewer you are presenting to. Remember, it is important to categorize your coursework and projects so this will give the reviewer easy access to sort out your accomplishments, skills, and projects.
What makes Professional Portfolios Important in the Legal Field?
After recent research, I have found that a lawyers professional portfolio is their website page. Their website page is a way to display their client's testimony, tell a background story, and present viewers a list of accomplishments that push viewers to the way you should choose that specific attorney to represent you as a client. Having a website represent a professional portfolio in the legal world and is a way of selling yourself to not only clients based in your town, but clients from all over the nation. OVC is a website that has the best attorney websites that serve as a professional portfolio to the public. The lawyer's website is a reflection of who they are individually and as a law firm. Depending on what the attorneys decide to include on their website is up to them, but after viewing the most successful lawyer website that OVC has displayed, the most successful lawyer website provides an "about us" tab, a list of lawyers at the firm with a short "about me" description, areas of practice, and case victories. The website also includes stats, awards earned as a law firm, and how much money earned from cases won. In conclusion, a professional portfolio is important for lawyers because it sells their legal service and is not limited to viewers, and provides easy access. Lawyers must display their skills, areas of practice, and client testimonials to prove they are the best attorney to handle a clients case. Their portfolio must also persuade clients that they are dealing with experienced attorneys that care for their clients well being.
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