One LThe law-student author recounts the workload, conflicts, pressures, anxieties, relationships, and educational content of the critical and difficult first year at Harvard's prestigious and demanding law school |
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Page 143
Yet the brief-writing assignment— which would be the end of the Methods course
— had cut through that disinterest. Most everyone had thrown themselves into the
project furiously. A brief is a lawyer's written argument to a judge. In it he cites ...
Yet the brief-writing assignment— which would be the end of the Methods course
— had cut through that disinterest. Most everyone had thrown themselves into the
project furiously. A brief is a lawyer's written argument to a judge. In it he cites ...
Page 145
Willie and I promised that we'd spend no more than ten to twelve hours each on
the brief. I gave it Friday night and most of Saturday. Willie did the same. That
was probably a third of the time the majority of our classmates had spent, and the
...
Willie and I promised that we'd spend no more than ten to twelve hours each on
the brief. I gave it Friday night and most of Saturday. Willie did the same. That
was probably a third of the time the majority of our classmates had spent, and the
...
Page 228
We had the long President's Day weekend ahead, however, and Terry assured
me that he'd finish the brief in the next day or two and get it to Margo, who would
still have two days to look it over before our next conference, scheduled for ...
We had the long President's Day weekend ahead, however, and Terry assured
me that he'd finish the brief in the next day or two and get it to Margo, who would
still have two days to look it over before our next conference, scheduled for ...
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| Title | One L |
| Author | Scott Turow |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Lawyers & Judges Harvard Law School Law / General Law / Legal Education Law students Law students - Massachusetts - Biography Law students/ Massachusetts/ Biography Turow, Scott |
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