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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... classmates would be academic privateers and cutthroats , but as I wan- dered around the Harkness green , sun - dazed and excited and a little bit drunk , I felt little like one of the astronauts , headed for adventure with the most ...
... classmates would be academic privateers and cutthroats , but as I wan- dered around the Harkness green , sun - dazed and excited and a little bit drunk , I felt little like one of the astronauts , headed for adventure with the most ...
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... classmates did not have well - developed feelings on these subjects - corporate practice and money . For most of us the interview season served only to raise those questions in a muted way for the first time . I had a few classmates who ...
... classmates did not have well - developed feelings on these subjects - corporate practice and money . For most of us the interview season served only to raise those questions in a muted way for the first time . I had a few classmates who ...
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... classmates . Willie was one of those persons , and he was virtually immune to competitive pressures . He had , for instance , told me that we would have to tailor our work around his Thursday evening drunk and his Friday morning ...
... classmates . Willie was one of those persons , and he was virtually immune to competitive pressures . He had , for instance , told me that we would have to tailor our work around his Thursday evening drunk and his Friday morning ...
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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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