Step 1: Many judges require three letters of recommendation. The first step to request letters of recommendation is to complete and send this form to your professor or supervisor: Clerkship-Recommendation-Form-for-Applicants-updated-2022.01.12.docx (live.com)

You should ask your recommenders to send their completed recommendation letters to law.clerkships@cornell.edu. It the student’s responsibility, not the clerkship office, to follow up with recommenders to make sure that they send in the letters

Upon receipt of the final version of your letter, we will format the letter and save it. Your recommender’s work is now done.

Step 2 if a Judge uses the OSCAR system:

• Send the clerkship office a list of applications in OSCAR to which you would like us to attach the recommendation letters.

Step 2 if a Judge does not accept applications via the OSCAR system, use the process below:

1. Provide us with name of the judge, email address, mailing information, salutation, recommenders’ names, and any special instructions. Students, use Leadership Connect to find judges’ email addresses. (Unfortunately, alumni do not have access to Leadership Connect. Search for email addresses on the courts’ websites, or let us know in your request that you can’t find the address.)
2. If you have already applied at the time you make your request, we will email your letters to the judge’s chambers.
3. If you have not yet applied at the time that you make your request, let us know that in your request. Once you have applied, notify us. We will email your letters so that they arrive after your application materials have been received in chambers.
4. Let us know if the judge requires that we send your application materials to chambers along with your recommendation letters.
5. Let us know if the judge requires that materials must be sent in hard copy rather than email. If we do not hear either way, we will default ot email.

In all cases, we will notify you after we send your letters.