My colleague, Herb Ramy, (DirectorAcademic Support Program at Suffolk University Law School) has recently made his locally famous paper on "Creating a Writing Sample" available on SSRN. This is a great resource for students who are trying to convert their legal writing (either from their first year legal writing course or other employment) into a (hopefully) job-winning writing sample. Here is the link to Herb's ssrn page, the piece is called "Creating a Writing Sample":
http://ssrn.com/author=775136
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