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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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 .
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 .
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Even more significant , I think , was the fact that the briefs and the arguments could answer some of that longing for evaluation and provide a sense of ... particularly persuasive brief and argument might allow one side to win .
Even more significant , I think , was the fact that the briefs and the arguments could answer some of that longing for evaluation and provide a sense of ... particularly persuasive brief and argument might allow one side to win .
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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 ...
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 ...
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User Review - Pferdina - LibraryThingI was interested in this book because I'm not ever going to law school and the first-person perspective is the closest-thing I'll have. I am interested in different methods of instruction, so this ... Read full review
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User Review - JenniferRobb - LibraryThingLiterature professor and published author, Scott Turow, decides that he liked the research for his book so much that he will attend law school. He chooses the venerated Harvard Law School and ... Read full review
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| Title | One L |
| Author | Scott Turow |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 0399119329, 9780399119323 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › Law / General |
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