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Sample Cover Letter: In-house Tech

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I am a second-year law student at Osgoode Hall Law School and I am writing to express my interest in a summer position at [●]. I am immediately drawn to [●] dedication to fostering the growth of its employees through mentorship and professional development programs.

In my role as a Senior Associate at the Ontario Medical Association, I oversaw the nominations and election procedures for over 40,000 medical professionals across the province. Noticing a need for streamlining the election process, I modernized the election process using business intelligence tools, especially in database management and data visualization through reports, summaries, and dashboards. I gained a deep appreciation for how much dedication and scrutiny is required to produce high-quality work under strict time constraints and advancing corporate strategy, which fostered a keen eye to detail and scrutiny in analysis. 

In addition to my full-time job, I cultivated my passion for innovation and project management through starting Safe6ix, an e-commerce store specializing in personal alarms. Through this experience, I developed strong business acumen and creativity. When starting out, I made the cost-effective decision to target local markets in the city when overcoming a heavily saturated market proved challenging. Using a client-focused lens, I successfully developed community and business partnerships and leveraged connections to establish a client list. Leveraging my experience in market research, I developed a long-term digital marketing strategy based on A/B testing social media advertisements. This experience was particularly crucial for equipping me with the ability to develop detailed work plans, establish timelines, and navigate unique challenges. I hope to leverage my experience in data analysis and project management to the intersection of law and business, especially within the corporate setting. I believe my passionate for technology and innovation coupled with my background in research makes me the ideal candidate for this role.

During my time at Osgoode Hall Law School, I have started to build practical legal skills through my extracurriculars. As the Business Manager of the school newspaper, Obiter Dicta, I was tasked with auditing and consolidating their finances to ensure that student fees are used effectively and ethically. I conducted negotiations with staff to develop a comprehensive and mutually agreeable funding plan on an annual basis. Such communication skills were also key in my role as Head of Sponsorship role in the National First Generation Network, particularly in securing funding and curating new partnerships with firms for all school chapters across Canada. I am drawn to the prospect of cultivating my interest in the intersection of law, innovation, and business. I am eager to contribute my entrepreneurial experience coupled with my background in research and data analysis.

Thank you for your consideration. I believe I can make a valuable contribution to the team at [●], and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sample Cover Letter: Supreme Court of Canada

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I am pleased to submit this letter as a part of my application for a clerkship position with the Supreme Court of Canada. My chief contribution is my experience in research and writing. Prior to law school, I completed my Master of Arts degree in Philosophy, and my thesis primarily focused on ethics. This experience provided the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, particularly in areas of law, psychology, and sociology. I learned new ways to approach classical problems and, as a Teaching Assistant, this allowed me to analyze complex ideas into more manageable components for undergraduate students. During my first-year summer, I had the opportunity to assist four Professors with their research projects. Here, I further developed my legal research skills and enjoyed comparing nuanced lines of argumentation by judges, lawyers, and scholars. For example, Professor Jennifer Nadler’s work on contract law theory focused on the theory underlying the doctrine of expectation damages, while Professor Carissima Mathen’s work on Section 7 of the Charter focused on the theory underlying the principle of arbitrariness. These narrow issues gave me the opportunity to explore caselaw, commentary, and textbooks.

I continue to sharpen my research and writing skills through my law school extracurriculars. As an Associate Editor on the Osgoode Law Hall Journal, I reviewed and analyzed articles for publication. I also completed substantive checks of citations to ensure that they conformed to the McGill Guide. To expand the legal scholarship I engaged with, I took on an editorial role for the Intellectual Property Journal and the Transnational Legal Theory Journal. In these roles, I provided substantive feedback on preliminary drafts and copyedited final versions for publication. My exposure to diverse scholarship has renewed my passion for the importance of advocacy, the complexity of social justice issues, and the varied nature of policy reform.

Studying both philosophy and law has led me to consider how questions of ethical, political, and economic theory have a role in illuminating judicial decision-making. Currently, I am interested in tracking normative moral claims in the law, especially in contract law theory, theories of criminal punishment, and Section 7 of the Charter. I am confident that my research skills and enthusiasm for legal analysis would be a valuable asset for the clerkship program.