Template guide · Showcase · opens Marble
A formal CV with a tall black-and-white portrait heading a stone side column.
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Spec sheet
Showcase resume: a tall black-and-white portrait heading a stone side column, an elegant serif name and title, and your story on ivory
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Why this shape
A formal CV with a tall black-and-white portrait heading a stone side column. The portrait runs to the paper’s top and left edges, and the side column under it holds practice areas, education, languages and certificates. Beside it, an EB Garamond name and an oxblood italic title sit above two contact lines, then your profile and experience on ivory. The design fixes the photo frame and its black-and-white finish: you can add, replace or switch off the photo, and with it off the frame shows your initials.
List your practice areas one per line in the side column, then your degrees and each language with a plain level. Add a bar or law society admission as a certificate, with the jurisdiction and year as your certificate shows them. In the main column, describe matters without naming clients unless the work is public, and leave out deal values you cannot confirm.
Read before you apply through hiring software
Applying through an online job portal? Use a single-column template for the portal, and keep this one for emailing a recruiter or handing over in person.
Open the ATS-Optimized guideRead by the machine
A rail that some hiring software reads into the main column.
Declared layout score
80/100
A structural rating the template declares, not your odds.
Hiring-software test
Passed
A dense sample export came back with every section intact on Letter paper, Nov 9, 2026.
Word export
Word export as a single-column file
Filled in
The example resumes on this site are rendered in a fixed set of designs, and this one is not in it yet. Browse the examples for your role; the writing advice applies to any design.
Where a CV photo is customary, as in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy and Spain, Marble gives the portrait a calm, formal place. Many international firms prefer no photo, so read the vacancy first. A firm’s online application system, or a role in the United States, Britain, Canada or Australia, calls for the plain ATS PDF, which sits in the same download menu.
No. Marble always prints the portrait in black and white at a fixed size above the stone column. Your choice is whether to show a photo and which one.
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