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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... finally finished . It was some- thing like stirring concrete with my eyelashes . I had no idea what half the words meant . I must have opened Black's Law Dictionary twenty - five times and I still can't understand many of the ...
... finally finished . It was some- thing like stirring concrete with my eyelashes . I had no idea what half the words meant . I must have opened Black's Law Dictionary twenty - five times and I still can't understand many of the ...
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... finally said , “ No. ” " No , I didn't think so , " Perini said . " What if the word was ' testate ' ? What would that be ? Would we have moved from the stomach " -Perini waved a hand and there was more loud laughter when he leeringly ...
... finally said , “ No. ” " No , I didn't think so , " Perini said . " What if the word was ' testate ' ? What would that be ? Would we have moved from the stomach " -Perini waved a hand and there was more loud laughter when he leeringly ...
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... finally done something roundly good with the law . Anyway , I still felt high when I got out of bed yesterday morning and a trace of the tingle remains today . I can see now what makes a trial lawyer's life go round . All those ...
... finally done something roundly good with the law . Anyway , I still felt high when I got out of bed yesterday morning and a trace of the tingle remains today . I can see now what makes a trial lawyer's life go round . All those ...
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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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