October 17, 2026
Dear [Hiring manager's name],
During my internship at Castellano & Reyes, a five-attorney family law practice in Tampa, I opened and organized 140 new client files in a single semester without a single misfiled document, and I want to keep doing that kind of intake and case-file work full time at [Law firm name]. I'm drawn to your firm because family law moves fast, and I already know how to keep a file room from falling behind the calendar.
I built a color-coded filing and deadline system that my supervising paralegal adopted for the whole intake team, and it cut the time to locate an active file from about ten minutes to under two. In my paralegal studies program I finished with a 3.8 GPA and placed second in my school's mock trial exhibit-management competition, which is closer to real file discipline than it sounds.
I'm trained in Clio and Microsoft Office, comfortable transcribing client intake calls into clean case notes, and I've already sat through actual custody and divorce filings, so the vocabulary and the urgency are not new to me. I pick up firm-specific procedures quickly because I spent my internship asking which shortcuts were actually allowed and which just looked that way.
I would welcome the chance to bring that same intake discipline to [Law firm name] as a full-time legal assistant, and I'm available to start as soon as your team needs me. Thank you for considering a candidate early in her career.
Sincerely,
Reese Harris