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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... court competitions are yet another of the universals of first - year education at most American law schools . Like the Legal Methods program , of which Ames is technically an extension , moot court seeks to acquaint the beginning law ...
... court competitions are yet another of the universals of first - year education at most American law schools . Like the Legal Methods program , of which Ames is technically an extension , moot court seeks to acquaint the beginning law ...
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... Court , which had proved the intellectual watershed of the course . In Erie , the Supreme Court instructed the lower federal judges to apply state law rather than federal law to many of the cases which came before them . Thus federal courts ...
... Court , which had proved the intellectual watershed of the course . In Erie , the Supreme Court instructed the lower federal judges to apply state law rather than federal law to many of the cases which came before them . Thus federal courts ...
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... Court judge who also teaches Trial Practice courses given for upper - class students at HLS . David had told me that Mealy was an exceptionally well respected judge in Boston and I was glad for the realistic touch , even though I was a ...
... Court judge who also teaches Trial Practice courses given for upper - class students at HLS . David had told me that Mealy was an exceptionally well respected judge in Boston and I was glad for the realistic touch , even though I was a ...
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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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