I tried searching and didn't see anything on this, so forgive me if I just missed it.
Coming out of a district court clerkship and applying to some federal public defender openings. Trying to decide what to use as a writing sample. I have two orders I drafted in criminal matters that seem like they'd be the best option.
One is an evidentiary issue on a complicated fruit of poisonous tree analysis, and the other is an order on a motion to dismiss in a case where the Government brought some really weird charges in a way that literally we could not find a prior example of (ANYwhere). So both involve a bunch of constitutional and other analysis, and fairly detailed factual sections.
But both are between 30-40 pages as they are. Which portions should be omitted to get down to 10-20 pages? Assume they are both basically broken down into:
General Intro/procedural (2-3 pages)
Background/facts (5 pages)
Standard of review (6-7 pages)
Analysis (20 pages)
Conclusion (1-2 pages)
I excised the intro/conclusion, but it isn't obvious to me which other sections would be more appropriate to use. Thanks for suggestions.
Which part of draft order for writing sample? Forum
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Re: Which part of draft order for writing sample?
Would it be possible to tee-up one legal issue in the cover letter of the writing sample and then only use the analysis section relevant to that issue? That would probably be my preference.
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Re: Which part of draft order for writing sample?
That makes sense. One of my samples has a 9-page analysis of one of the issues, so I guess I will use that one and just add a paragraph explaining it. Thanks!Fireworks2016 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:17 amWould it be possible to tee-up one legal issue in the cover letter of the writing sample and then only use the analysis section relevant to that issue? That would probably be my preference.