Email Like a Professional

When you are applying for jobs and internships as a law student, you’ll find the majority of your correspondence will be via email. Your email will often be your first impression and you want to make sure that it is a positive one. Here are three easy ways to make your emails more professional and successful. 

Email Address

Choose one email address to use for all of your job search correspondence. While you might check your personal email more often, your law school email address may be a more professional alternative. Choose to use an email address that is a simple combination of your first and last name. 

Email Signature

As a law student, your email signature should include enough information that someone especially a hiring manager could easily reference. Include your full name your law school and your year. 

Amy Smith

3L Seton Hall School of Law

You should also consider what salutation you want to use to sign off your email. Pick one and stick with it so that you don’t need to consider each and every time how you will sign your email. 

Sincerely

Very truly yours

Best 

Timeliness

As you practice law, you should do your best to respond to all emails within 48 hours even if the response is simply to let the sender know that you received your email and you are researching an answer. 

When you are searching for a law job as a law student, you should do your best to respond to all emails within 24 hours so that you don’t miss out on any prospective job or interview opportunities. 

As you search for your first law job as a law student, keep these tips in mind so that you can make the best first impression even if it is over email. 

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