GENERAL ATTORNEY RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Apr 04, 2025 - The General Attorney provides legal guidance through in-depth research, contract drafting, and issue analysis to support commercial operations. This position demonstrates strong judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage multiple high-volume assignments in a fast-paced environment. This role applies specialized legal expertise with a pragmatic, business-oriented approach while maintaining excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.

Tips for General Attorney Skills and Responsibilities on a Resume

1. General Attorney, Henderson Legal Services, Springfield, IL

Job Summary:

  • Support OGC’s mission by providing representation, legal advice and counsel for the Director, the Corporation, and its constituents on employment law issues such as employment and personnel, labor management relations (including collective bargaining), and equal employment opportunity matters.
  • Oversee internal investigations of alleged violations of laws, regulations, or policies in anticipation of litigation.
  • Investigate facts, research issues, review pertinent laws, legal opinions and precedents, and draft memoranda on sensitive matters, outlining cases and explaining and justifying the application of legal principles, recommendations, and conclusions.
  • Prepare cases for litigation including drafting all motions, memoranda, briefs and other pleadings stating the facts, analyzing the legal issues, identifying policy concerns, and justifying the legal action.
  • Advising PBGC on legal issues respecting multiemployer pension plans and PBGC’s insurance program for these plans.
  • Solve the issues that arise in the context of administrative determinations, litigation, negotiations, providing technical assistance to Congress, and developing regulations.
  • Investigating abuses of PBGC’s insurance program for multiemployer plans.
  • Advising and representing PBGC in litigation respecting multiemployer plans.
  • Drafting pleadings, motions, briefs, and other filings.
  • Negotiating with plan sponsors and other stakeholders and drafting agreements.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Legal Research (Hard Skills)
  • Litigation Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Employment Law (Hard Skills)
  • Investigations (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Writing (Hard Skills)
  • Negotiation (Soft Skills)
  • Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
  • Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)

2. General Attorney, Baxter & Associates Law Firm, Reno, NV

Job Summary:

  • Conduct research and analyze legal issues
  • Work independently and with a team with excellent judgment and both strategic and tactical thinking
  • Draft and review agreements supporting commercial activity including supply chain agreements and service contracts
  • Lead, handle, and balance a high volume of matters and assignments
  • Expertise in legal and analytical work with a business-oriented, pragmatic approach to problem-solving
  • Prioritize and handle the workload and simultaneous tasks, and meet deadlines in a changing, fast paced environment
  • Highly responsive and organized
  • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, client relationship, and team skills
  • Specialized knowledge and experience
  • Provide legal guidance


Skills on Resume: 

  • Legal Research (Hard Skills)
  • Contract Drafting (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Business Acumen (Soft Skills)
  • Time Management (Soft Skills)
  • Organization (Soft Skills)
  • Client Relations (Soft Skills)
  • Legal Guidance (Hard Skills)

3. General Attorney, Collins & Wright Legal Solutions, Madison, WI

Job Summary:

  • Support other attorneys in preparing complex antitrust cases for trial by conducting and supporting e-discovery, securing, reviewing and drafting legal documents needed during the various stages of litigation.
  • Support all phases of antitrust merger or conduct investigations obtaining and reviewing evidence from a variety of sources and identifying legal sources and plans for investigations.
  • Reviewing the Regional Office investigative files and performing in-depth legal research for applicable Court and Board decisions and pertinent adjudications of other Federal and State administrative agencies in order to develop recommendations for the resolution of the issues submitted by the Regional Offices.
  • Ascertaining what substantive legal issues in the cases are raised by the facts, circumstances, and inferences, based upon evidence of sufficient probative value, and identifying the major and minor procedural issues.
  • Attending meetings with Advice managers and/or the General Counsel to orally present pertinent facts and legal issues of the cases and to recommend appropriate courses of action.
  • Drafting Advice memoranda, position statements and briefs outlining the legal and policy rationale for the decision reached.
  • Preparing guideline memoranda to aid the Regional office in dealing with recent developments in case law.
  • Analyzing and evaluating requests for injunctive relief under Section 10(j) of the Act, making recommendations as to the propriety of such temporary relief, and preparing legal memoranda requesting Board authorization to initiate injunctive proceedings where appropriate.
  • Handling appeals of Section 10(j) and 10(1) district court decisions in federal circuit courts of appeals, including drafting motions, appellate briefs, and presenting oral argument in circuit courts.


Skills on Resume: 

  • E-discovery (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Research (Hard Skills)
  • Case Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Drafting (Hard Skills)
  • Oral Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Policy Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Appellate Advocacy (Hard Skills)
  • Investigation Support (Hard Skills)

4. General Attorney, Riverstone Law Group, Charleston, WV

Job Summary:

  • Provides guidance to attorneys in appellate cases arising under all of the statutes (**) that EEOC enforces against private-sector employers.
  • Works with appellate attorneys to develop legal arguments and strategies in Commission and amicus cases.
  • Serves as primary reviewer for legal briefs filed in federal courts of appeals. 
  • Reviews other appellate filings, including motions and petitions for rehearing.
  • Serves as judge in moot courts of argument in courts of appeals. 
  • Reviews memoranda and draft briefs for the Office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice in Supreme Court cases.
  • Reviews memoranda addressing whether the Commission should seek further review of adverse decisions or participate as amicus curiae in employment discrimination appeals.
  • Works closely with the Office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice to represent the EEOC's interests in employment discrimination cases before the United States Supreme Court.
  • Coordinates the representation of the Commission in appellate cases handled by the Department of Justice that affect the Commission, including defensive litigation.
  • Provides formal and informal legal advice and memoranda to agency leadership, including the General Counsel and the Chair. 


Skills on Resume: 

  • Appellate Guidance (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Strategy (Hard Skills)
  • Brief Review (Hard Skills)
  • Moot Court (Soft Skills)
  • Legal Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Advice (Soft Skills)
  • Litigation Coordination (Hard Skills)
  • Collaborative Work (Soft Skills)

5. General Attorney, Summit Legal Partners, Boise, ID

Job Summary:

  • Providing a mixture of general legal advice (both oral and written), transactional support, and some litigation.
  • Do work on behalf of the Unit’s other higher education clients.
  • Give advice regarding higher education matters, represent governing boards
  • Engage in or assist with civil litigation and quasi-judicial matters in which a client is a party or has an interest
  • Draft formal and informal opinions on higher education issues, and draft and interpret rules and policies.
  • Cover unique and complex topics including student services, faculty issues, regulatory compliance, campus safety, and open meetings and open records issues.
  • Support efforts to confer with government agencies, public authorities, attorneys, businesspersons, and other members of the public to obtain information relevant to Commission investigations and to provide them with information on matters of the law, Commission procedures and policy.
  • Support the preparation of internal documents for review by the Commission and its staff and perform special assignments
  • Assists the Associate General Counsel in the management of the division.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Legal Advice (Hard Skills)
  • Transactional Support (Hard Skills)
  • Litigation Support (Hard Skills)
  • Policy Drafting (Hard Skills)
  • Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
  • Government Relations (Soft Skills)
  • Document Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Team Management (Soft Skills)