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SAMPLE COVER LETTER #8: SECOND-YEAR JOINT DEGREE STUDENT

Calvin A. Klein

20 Park Avenue

New Haven, CT 06511

(413) 262-6590

September 1, 2013

Patricia Nolan

Hiring Coordinator

Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP

396 Hayes Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

Dear Ms. Nolan:

I am a second-year student at Yale Law School and am interested in applying for a summer clerkship at

Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP. I am excited by the diversity of land use and environmental cases

that the firm is involved with, and the mixture of litigation and policy work done by the attorneys. I

worked in northern California during college on issues of sustainable forest use and am eager to return

to an area of the country where progressive environmental policy is still being created and enforced.

I have a long-standing commitment to environmental issues. As a joint degree student with Yale’s Law

School and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, I am pursuing the scientific knowledge, policy

skills, and legal training necessary to be an effective environmental advocate. This past summer, I

sharpened my legal research and writing abilities working on Clean Air Act litigation for Environmental

Defense in Boulder, Colorado, and am continuing to work for the organization part time during the

school year. Through course work on Land Use, Water Law, Administrative Law, and U.S.

Environmental Law and Policy, which I took at Yale Law School as an undergraduate, I have sought to

develop a broad understanding of the laws and regulations affecting the environment, and the context in

which these laws are enacted and enforced.

Please find attached a copy of my resume, a list of references, a writing sample, and an unofficial copy

of my transcript. I would be delighted at the chance to interview with someone in your office. Thank

you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Calvin Klein

Yale Law Scho o l Career Develo pment Office

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