One L"A wonderful book...it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. Or anyone who has ever worried about being human."--The New York Times It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel those of first-year law students everywhere. His gripping account of this critical, formative year in the life of a lawyer is as suspenseful, said The New York Times, as "the most absorbing of thrillers." |
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... Contracts has tradi- tionally been the field of law of the most renowned intellec- tual complexity . Most of the greatest legal commentators of the past century have been Contracts scholars : Williston , Cor- bin , Fuller , Llewellyn ...
... Contracts has tradi- tionally been the field of law of the most renowned intellec- tual complexity . Most of the greatest legal commentators of the past century have been Contracts scholars : Williston , Cor- bin , Fuller , Llewellyn ...
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... Contract damages are merely in- tended to compensate plaintiff for his loss . You leave all that soul - splitting over punishment behind in Torts and Criminal Law - it's not for Contracts ! " That was the end . Perini was already on his ...
... Contract damages are merely in- tended to compensate plaintiff for his loss . You leave all that soul - splitting over punishment behind in Torts and Criminal Law - it's not for Contracts ! " That was the end . Perini was already on his ...
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... Contracts treatises . To an extent which shames me , I often agreed . Somehow , it seemed obvious that anyone who had the right answer that often had to be a con man and an SOB . When I finally got to know Ned , late in the fall , I ...
... Contracts treatises . To an extent which shames me , I often agreed . Somehow , it seemed obvious that anyone who had the right answer that often had to be a con man and an SOB . When I finally got to know Ned , late in the fall , I ...
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Limited preview - 2010 |
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Limited preview - 2010 |
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