One LThe law-student author recounts the workload, conflicts, pressures, anxieties, relationships, and educational content of the critical and difficult first year at Harvard's prestigious and demanding law school |
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Page 35
By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard
things ahead— a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered
so far— the law, my classmates, the great pace of discovery— had left me in
deep ...
By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard
things ahead— a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered
so far— the law, my classmates, the great pace of discovery— had left me in
deep ...
Page 179
I still had no conclusive idea on how far I could reach with the law, and like many
first-year students I had heard about the Review so often that it had finally been
digested as the emblem of a success which was otherwise hard to define.
I still had no conclusive idea on how far I could reach with the law, and like many
first-year students I had heard about the Review so often that it had finally been
digested as the emblem of a success which was otherwise hard to define.
Page 203
Devices where there once was energy. I have resolved to brief no cases this term
. I want to conserve time to read a newspaper now and then, and even on
occasion, a novel. Around Harvard Law School it is just so damn hard to keep a
sense ...
Devices where there once was energy. I have resolved to brief no cases this term
. I want to conserve time to read a newspaper now and then, and even on
occasion, a novel. Around Harvard Law School it is just so damn hard to keep a
sense ...
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| Title | One L |
| Author | Scott Turow |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Lawyers & Judges Harvard Law School Law / General Law / Legal Education Law students Law students - Massachusetts - Biography Law students/ Massachusetts/ Biography Turow, Scott |
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