Law student cover letter example
A vacation scheme letter is read by graduate recruitment beside your grades, so it has to be exact and short. Give your year and marks, write your legal experience as the tasks you did, say why this firm, and show reliability from your job.
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Oliver Bamford
Leeds · [email protected] · 07700 900252
14 October 2026
Ms Rachel Thornbury
Graduate Recruitment Manager
Calverley Ash LLP
Aire Quay House, Canal Wharf
Leeds LS11 5ZQ
Dear Ms Thornbury
Summer vacation scheme 2027
I am applying for a place on your summer 2027 vacation scheme. I am in the second year of an LLB at the University of Pennine Vale, with a first-year average of 68 and my best marks in Contract Law (72) and Public Law (70).
Since October 2025 I have volunteered at the university law clinic. I interview clients about housing disrepair and unpaid wages, take attendance notes and draft a first advice letter, which the supervising solicitor checks before it is sent. It has taught me to get the facts in order before I look for the law.
During an insight week at Hartley Quayle I shadowed a trainee in real estate and wrote a research note on break clauses, which made me want to see commercial property work from inside a firm. Your real estate seat on the scheme, and the firm’s work on city-centre regeneration, are why I am applying to you.
I have worked 16 hours a week at Fairfield Supermarket since 2023, alongside my studies, and I am trusted to cover the cash office. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Yours sincerely
Oliver Bamford
Fictional letter from Oliver Bamford, the applicant in the law student CV example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for a place on your summer 2027 vacation scheme. I am in the second year of an LLB at the University of Pennine Vale, with a first-year average of 68 and my best marks in Contract Law (72) and Public Law (70).
The scheme, your year and your marks: what graduate recruitment screens first.
Since October 2025 I have volunteered at the university law clinic. I interview clients about housing disrepair and unpaid wages, take attendance notes and draft a first advice letter, which the supervising solicitor checks before it is sent. It has taught me to get the facts in order before I look for the law.
Legal experience written as the tasks you did, and who checked them.
During an insight week at Hartley Quayle I shadowed a trainee in real estate and wrote a research note on break clauses, which made me want to see commercial property work from inside a firm. Your real estate seat on the scheme, and the firm’s work on city-centre regeneration, are why I am applying to you.
Why this firm, tied to something you have done.
I have worked 16 hours a week at Fairfield Supermarket since 2023, alongside my studies, and I am trusted to cover the cash office. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Reliability from your job, then the CV.