Sending a Paper Judicial Clerkship Application?
- Get your application in order. Generally, transcript, writing sample (and preface), resume, and cover letter saved in a pdf either on your computer or an external hard drive. You may also send it lawcareers@wustl.edu.
- Make an appointment with lawcareers@wustl.edu to reserve the workroom to print and assemble your materials. Please give us an idea of how many you are printing so we can be adequately prepared in terms of time and materials (we provide envelopes, labels and resume paper). Note: it will take a bit longer than you think to stuff all those envelopes, so give yourself plenty of time.
- Put all your addresses, salutations and information in an excel spread sheet so you can do a mail merge. If you haven’t any experience with a mail merge. Click here for an online tutorial.
- Letters of Recommendation. So this can be handled one of two ways. One Bev Owens can print a copy of the letter of recommendation and seal it and it can be included in your packet or, and if time is of the issue, this may be your best bet, indicate in your cover letter that your letters of recommendation (and who they are from) will be forwarded under separate cover. If you need help phrasing this, we are happy to review your resume and cover letter.
- Triple check everything that you are putting in the envelopes. Pro Tip: print off your labels first so that you can be labeling your envelopes while your resume, cover letter, transcript and writing sample print.