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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... begin to absorb the mysterious language of the law , full of words like estoppel and replevin . It is during the first year , according to a saying , that you learn to think like a lawyer , to develop the habits of mind and world ...
... begin to absorb the mysterious language of the law , full of words like estoppel and replevin . It is during the first year , according to a saying , that you learn to think like a lawyer , to develop the habits of mind and world ...
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... begin the schedule we'll be on for much of the year . This semester we'll have Contracts , Civil Procedure , Criminal Law , and Torts . The latter two courses last only one term and they'll be the subjects on which we'll take our first ...
... begin the schedule we'll be on for much of the year . This semester we'll have Contracts , Civil Procedure , Criminal Law , and Torts . The latter two courses last only one term and they'll be the subjects on which we'll take our first ...
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... begin only a few days after classes ended on May 14. In January , most of us had had the comfort of Christmas vacation before the tests . That had given us the opportunity to escape the trips and neuroses we all laid on each other . Now ...
... begin only a few days after classes ended on May 14. In January , most of us had had the comfort of Christmas vacation before the tests . That had given us the opportunity to escape the trips and neuroses we all laid on each other . Now ...
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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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