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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Page 63
... Morris out before class to the man who sat next to me , he'd been incredulous . Morris had been an all - Ivy halfback at Dartmouth and he still looked the part , tanned and trim and strongly built . He came to the first class in a pair ...
... Morris out before class to the man who sat next to me , he'd been incredulous . Morris had been an all - Ivy halfback at Dartmouth and he still looked the part , tanned and trim and strongly built . He came to the first class in a pair ...
Page 64
... Morris promised . " Don't feel you have to make any excuses . I don't believe in coercing you into having something to say . " The only thing he did ask was that we try not to raise our hands when other students were talking . Morris ...
... Morris promised . " Don't feel you have to make any excuses . I don't believe in coercing you into having something to say . " The only thing he did ask was that we try not to raise our hands when other students were talking . Morris ...
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... Morris who most neatly summed up what we were all trying to do in using legalisms . In the last meeting of Civil Procedure that week , a woman answered a question Morris had posed . " The court does not have subject matter jurisdiction ...
... Morris who most neatly summed up what we were all trying to do in using legalisms . In the last meeting of Civil Procedure that week , a woman answered a question Morris had posed . " The court does not have subject matter jurisdiction ...
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Limited preview - 2010 |
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