What Reasons to Provide Writing Samples Assumed Impermissible

[00:00:00] I was planning on using a memo I wrote to one of the judge's clerks I interned with last summer as my writing sample. My school of clerkship office suggested this would be frowned upon by judges. Is that true?

Maybe, but at the same time if I don't know if you're writing for a judge. If it's just about some sort of legal issue and so forth, it's not going to be frowned upon. You can just put, 'The contents of a memo I did last summer. '.

It doesn't have to be to the judge or whoever. I don't think that it's going to be frowned upon by judges but again, only use this memo.

You can see all these kinds of problems here. Problems with not providing the writing samples with the right example. If you provide one you wrote to the clerks, see any reason why that wouldn't be permissible. You're just analyzing the law and I don't see anything wrong with that. And you're probably not divulging confidential information because the information is already in front of the court in terms of memos and briefs and stuff.

I wouldn't worry too much about that at all. I'm applying to regional firms after two years in. I had a few writing opportunities to junior associate in and came out of it without a writing sample. My current writing sample options are internship, I wrote three years or excerpting from a law review article I published during my first [00:01:00] year in my law firm. I'm aware either of these is ideal advice if it was me I would probably just, and again, this is not necessarily the coolest thing, but if we did publish a law firm, a law review article during your first year, I think that's great. I would just turn that in.
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