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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... going to Harvard . I talked about it one day to a friend , a graduate student in the department whom I knew had thought seriously of going to law school himself . " Look , " he told me , " if I was going to law school , I would be going ...
... going to Harvard . I talked about it one day to a friend , a graduate student in the department whom I knew had thought seriously of going to law school himself . " Look , " he told me , " if I was going to law school , I would be going ...
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... going to do okay . Other people just don't understand this stuff as well as we do . I was over in the Ed School ... going to kill myself with the pills and liquor , she said . I was going to be crazy with drugs 191 DECEMBER AND JANUARY ...
... going to do okay . Other people just don't understand this stuff as well as we do . I was over in the Ed School ... going to kill myself with the pills and liquor , she said . I was going to be crazy with drugs 191 DECEMBER AND JANUARY ...
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... going to happen to all of us when we go into a courtroom and make a motion under Rule Twelve E ? Do you think the judge is going to give a damn whether it's a model of legal informalism ? " But the majority of the section were ...
... going to happen to all of us when we go into a courtroom and make a motion under Rule Twelve E ? Do you think the judge is going to give a damn whether it's a model of legal informalism ? " But the majority of the section were ...
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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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