A CV that behaves like a case file.
Advocate Dossier explores how someone with credentials but no track record presents themselves credibly. Instead of compressing a career into one scrolling page, it treats each area—academic journey, moot court, research, experience, practice interests, recognition, résumé—as its own filed section that can grow as the career does.
( WHY WE BUILT THIS )
Early-career professionals often get handed the same one-page template as people with twenty years behind them, and it flatters neither. We built Advocate Dossier to explore what a personal site becomes when it is designed to grow for a decade rather than be replaced every two years.
Independent concept project. The individual, institutions, awards, publications, and contact details are illustrative and were created to demonstrate Vanto’s approach.
( AT A GLANCE )
The site opens on a profile card—name, programme, standing, year, location—before any positioning language appears. For someone whose case is built on credentials rather than a client list, the verifiable details are the strongest opening argument, and burying them under a hero statement wastes them. The identity section follows only once the reader knows who they are looking at.
Academic journey, moot court, research, experience, practice interests, recognition, and résumé each get their own route rather than a heading on a single page. That costs some immediacy and buys something more useful: every section can be linked to directly, cited in an application, and expanded independently as the record grows.
Research entries lead with an abstract and a source rather than a title alone, and moot court results name the round, the bench, and the memorial. The pattern is deliberate: in a field where assertions are expected to be supported, an unsourced claim on a personal site reads as carelessness. The interface makes citing the default rather than an extra step.
The résumé is a real page rather than a PDF download—readable, linkable, and current—while still printing cleanly when an application demands a file. It removes the usual failure mode where the website and the attached CV drift apart, and it means the version a reader finds is always the version that is true.
( WHAT IT DEMONSTRATES )
A nine-section professional record with its own routing, citation pattern, and browser-native résumé. It settled how to present someone whose case rests on credentials rather than clients—a structure that holds up at graduation and still holds up ten years later.