Choose your CV design
Start with the template gallery. Browse the available designs, search for relevant styles and preview the layouts before selecting one. Choose a design that suits the type of legal opportunity you are pursuing.
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LexCV Career Studio
Create, customise and review your CV in one place. Designed for law students, recent graduates and legal professionals, LexCV Career Studio helps you prepare a professional CV for internships, jobs, research opportunities, moots, publications and other legal careers.
Everything you need to prepare your CV
Choose a design, enter your information, customise your document, review potential problems and prepare a version suited to a particular opportunity. Keep a master CV and create separate versions for different applications.
The aim is to help you organise your experience and improve how you present it. Your final CV should always reflect your genuine qualifications, skills and achievements.
How to use LexCV Career Studio
Follow this workflow to create a new CV or improve an existing draft.
Add your information
Enter your contact details, education, internships, work experience, research, publications, moots, achievements, skills and other relevant information. Keep every detail accurate and up to date.
Customise your CV
Adjust supported fonts, text sizes, accent colours and spacing. Organise your sections and review the document preview while editing. You can explore other templates without intentionally rebuilding the entire CV.
Review and improve
Check your CV for incomplete details, unresolved placeholders, missing dates, unclear descriptions and other issues flagged by the reviewer. Read the recommendations and make corrections where appropriate.
Tailor it to the opportunity
Where available, compare your CV against an internship or job description. Identify relevant skills and experience that deserve greater emphasis. Create a separate application version when you need a tailored document.
Check and download
Complete the final checks, verify your information and confidentiality, and export your CV as a PDF using the browser's print dialog or as an editable Word document. Inspect the downloaded file before submitting it.
1. CV template gallery
Explore 37 CV template designs with different visual styles and layouts, intended for a variety of academic and professional purposes.
Browse and search
Explore available designs and use the gallery's supported search and filtering options to find templates by name, category or relevant terms.
Preview before choosing
Review a design before selecting it. Consider readability, section organisation and whether the layout suits your intended application.
Switch templates
Try another design without intentionally replacing your underlying CV content. After switching, review the layout and confirm that the information remains properly organised.
Different career directions
The gallery includes conventional, modern, editorial, academic, corporate and specialist legal styles for uses such as litigation, corporate law, research and legal internships.
Choosing a template: Select a design that makes your experience easy to understand. For applications that rely on automated CV parsing, a straightforward, text-focused layout may be preferable to a highly decorative design.
2. Create and edit your CV
Use the editor to build a CV around your actual academic background, legal experience and professional interests.
Personal details
- Name and contact information.
- Professional profile or summary, where supported.
- Relevant professional links and personal details.
Education
- Degree and university details.
- Study dates and qualifications.
- Relevant coursework and academic achievements.
Internships and experience
- Internships and employment.
- Law firms, chambers and organisations.
- Relevant research, drafting and responsibilities.
Research and publications
- Research projects and written work.
- Articles, publications and journal experience.
- Relevant academic contributions.
Moots and achievements
- Moot courts and competitions.
- Awards and leadership experience.
- Volunteering and legal-aid activities.
Skills and qualifications
- Legal and technical skills.
- Languages and certifications.
- Other relevant professional information.
Organise your sections
Use the supported editor controls to add, rename, remove, reorder, show or hide sections. Choose an order that suits your experience and application. For example, a research-focused CV can place relevant publications and research experience prominently, while a litigation-focused CV may emphasise chamber internships and relevant legal work.
Edit your information and review the document preview as you work. Undo and redo are available for supported editing actions.
3. Photograph and logo support
Add a personal photograph or a suitable university or organisation logo where it is relevant and supported by your chosen template.
- Upload an image using the file picker or supported drag-and-drop workflow.
- Crop the image into a square format.
- Adjust its positioning and zoom.
- Choose a square or circular presentation where supported.
- Position the image to the left, centre or right where supported.
- Replace or remove the image when needed.
- Review how the image appears in the preview and supported exports.
Before including a photograph: Read the application instructions. Some employers or institutions may request a photograph, while others may prefer a text-focused CV without one.
4. Design customisation
Personalise your CV using the available design controls while maintaining a consistent and readable layout.
Fonts and text sizes
Choose from supported serif and sans-serif fonts. Adjust supported sizes for your name, body text and section headings. Keep text readable throughout the document.
Colours and spacing
Customise supported accent colours and spacing settings. Use consistent formatting so readers can quickly identify sections and important information.
Document preview
Review the CV while editing. Check text, headings, dates, images and section ordering in the selected template.
Printable CV document
The CV document is intended to retain a white printable page, independently of the colour scheme used by the website interface.
5. Desktop, tablet and mobile support
The interface is designed to adapt to different screen sizes. The gallery, editing controls and document preview adjust to the available display area.
- Responsive template gallery.
- Adaptive editor layout.
- Document preview with A4 proportions.
- Support for image positioning and cropping workflows.
- Layout adjustments intended to reduce unnecessary horizontal scrolling.
A desktop or laptop may be more convenient for detailed CV editing. On mobile, review the entire document and inspect the downloaded file before using it for an application.
6. Law-student CV reviewer
The reviewer uses predefined rules and recommendations to help you identify common CV issues relevant to legal careers.
Education and academics
Review missing or incomplete education details, degree and institution information, study dates, relevant coursework and academic achievements.
Legal experience
Check internships, employment, organisation names, roles, dates and descriptions of relevant research, drafting and other responsibilities.
Moots and achievements
Review moots, competitions, publications, journal experience, research, awards, leadership, volunteering and legal-aid experience.
Writing and completeness
Identify potential problems such as missing contact details, placeholders, vague statements, repetitive wording, missing dates, inconsistent entries and text that may be difficult to read.
Privacy and confidentiality
Review reminders about unfinished content, sensitive material and confidential client information. Remove information you are not authorised to disclose.
Recommendations for improvement
Read each finding, understand the issue and apply the suggested correction where appropriate. Review your CV again after making changes.
Important: The reviewer uses predefined, rule-based checks. It is a self-review aid, not a substitute for a human review, and its findings may not cover every possible weakness in your CV.
7. CV readiness score
The readiness score provides a diagnostic overview based on the CV-quality criteria supported by the reviewer.
- Review results across relevant CV-quality categories.
- Identify incomplete information and potential formatting issues.
- Read explanations and suggested corrections.
- Reassess your CV after making improvements.
- Review keyword coverage separately from general CV readiness.
How to interpret your score: Treat it as a guide to improvement, not as an employer's actual ATS score or a prediction of selection. A higher score cannot guarantee an interview, internship or job.
8. Match your CV to an opportunity
Where the matching workflow is available, compare your CV with an internship or job description to identify relevant skills, terms and experience that may deserve greater attention.
- Read the official opportunity description carefully.
- Enter or paste the description into the matching workflow.
- Review the relevant terms and skills identified by the comparison.
- Check whether your existing CV demonstrates those skills or experiences.
- Improve descriptions of genuine experience where appropriate.
- Review the tailored document before exporting it.
Add only the skills, qualifications and experience you genuinely possess. The matching process is intended to improve relevance, not to encourage unsupported claims.
9. Application-specific CV versions
Keep a general master CV and create separate versions for opportunities that require different emphasis. The application-copy workflow is designed to let you tailor a copy without intentionally replacing the master draft.
Corporate law internship
Emphasise relevant coursework, corporate or commercial law exposure, research, drafting and related experience where these reflect your actual background.
Litigation chamber
Give appropriate prominence to chamber internships, relevant legal research, drafting exposure, court-related work and moots.
Research internship
Highlight relevant research projects, publications, writing experience and subject-specific academic work.
Academic or publication role
Emphasise relevant research, published writing, journal responsibilities, presentations and academic contributions.
Use the available application-copy fields to identify the role and, where supported, provide the opportunity description. Check the tailored copy before submitting it and update your master CV when you gain new experience.
10. Saving, backup and privacy
The basic workflow uses browser-local storage for drafts and provides relevant saving and backup controls where supported.
Save your draft
Drafts can be saved locally in the browser. Check the displayed saving status before leaving the editor.
Unsaved-change warnings
The editor can display save or error status and warn about unsaved changes. Verify that important information is saved or backed up before closing the page.
JSON backup and restore
Export the available JSON backup and store it safely. Use the restore workflow when you need to recover the backed-up CV data.
Clear locally saved data
Available privacy controls can clear locally stored CV data. Make a backup first if you may need the information later.
Important: Browser-local storage is not cloud synchronisation. Drafts may not automatically transfer to another device or browser. Clearing browser data or site storage may remove saved information, so back up important CVs regularly.
Avoid entering confidential client information or sensitive material that you are not authorised to disclose.
11. Export your CV as PDF or Word
When the CV is ready, prepare a downloadable version using the supported export options. Review the exported file instead of relying solely on the editor preview.
PDF document
- Prepare the document for printing.
- Use the browser's print dialog.
- Select the browser option to save as PDF.
- Review page breaks, margins, text and images.
Editable Word document
- Export the supported Word document.
- Open it in Microsoft Word or a compatible office suite.
- Check the formatting, section order and image placement.
- Correct layout problems before submitting it.
The export workflow is intended to support A4 documents and multi-page CVs. However, PDF and Word pagination can differ because they use different rendering systems. Review every page of the final document.
12. Final checks before downloading
The export checklist can flag common issues that may need attention before you download the document.
- Contact details: Confirm your name and required contact information.
- Placeholders: Remove unfinished template text.
- Incomplete entries: Correct or remove empty records.
- Dates: Check missing dates and inconsistent date ranges.
- Readability: Review text size, spacing and document length.
- Confidentiality: Remove information that should not be disclosed.
- Review findings: Revisit unresolved issues identified by the reviewer.
- Accuracy: Verify your experience, qualifications, skills and achievements.
- Application requirements: Check any requested format, page limit or mandatory information.
The checklist is an aid, not a guarantee that the CV is free from errors. Read the document yourself before submitting it.
13. Website theme compatibility
LexCV's interface is intended to follow the light or dark mode selected through Lexibal's existing theme switcher. This guide does not introduce a separate theme switcher or force a particular colour scheme.
Text and page surfaces inherit the active website theme, while borders use subtle variations of the inherited text colour. Lexibal blue is retained as the accent colour for headings, numbering and other highlights. The printable CV remains a separate, white document.
The actual theme-switching behaviour should be verified on the deployed Lexibal website to ensure that the builder follows the active Foxiz theme state correctly.
14. WordPress integration
LexCV Career Studio is designed to run inside your WordPress website through the plugin and its shortcode.
Shortcode
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Embedding the builder
A site administrator can place the shortcode in a supported WordPress shortcode block on the page where the builder should appear. The embedded experience includes the template gallery, editing workflow, reviewer and export controls.
Before publishing
Test the page in a staging environment first. Check the active theme, mobile layout, template designs, image handling, saved drafts and exported files before relying on the builder for important applications.
Best practices for a stronger legal CV
Use clear descriptions
Explain what you actually did during an internship, research project, moot or publication assignment. Avoid vague descriptions and unsupported claims.
Prioritise relevant experience
Give appropriate prominence to experience that relates to the opportunity. Tailor the emphasis without exaggerating your qualifications.
Keep the layout readable
Use consistent dates, clear headings, readable text sizes and sensible spacing. Check every page for awkward breaks or unnecessary empty space.
Protect confidential information
Do not disclose confidential client details, private documents or other information you are not authorised to share.
Back up your work
Keep a backup of important drafts, particularly before clearing browser data, changing devices or making extensive changes.
Inspect the exported file
Open the PDF or Word document after export. Check every page and confirm that the content is accurate and suitable for the application.
Important limitations
LexCV Career Studio is a CV preparation and review tool. Its predefined checks may not identify every weakness, and its readiness score is not an employer's actual ATS score or a prediction of selection. Opportunity matching can help identify relevant terms but cannot establish whether an applicant will be selected.
Browser-local saving is not cloud storage. Keep backups of important drafts and verify downloaded documents before submitting them. PDF and Word files can paginate differently, so the final layout should always be inspected.
The deployed WordPress installation also needs practical validation for template appearance, theme switching, photo positioning, mobile editing, draft recovery and multi-page exports.