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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... 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 definitions . There are notations and numbers throughout the case whose purpose baffles me . And ...
... 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 definitions . There are notations and numbers throughout the case whose purpose baffles me . And ...
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... idea of being called on , to willingly expose myself to the same kind of interrogation . More important , I'd begun to realize how complicated the personal politics of speaking in class had become . By the second week , a mood of ...
... idea of being called on , to willingly expose myself to the same kind of interrogation . More important , I'd begun to realize how complicated the personal politics of speaking in class had become . By the second week , a mood of ...
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... idea . It did not fit in with his bootstrap philosophy . Nobody had ever given him much of anything , let alone at Harvard Law School . I was not sure I liked the idea myself . We'd all done a good deal of work on the outline by now . I ...
... idea . It did not fit in with his bootstrap philosophy . Nobody had ever given him much of anything , let alone at Harvard Law School . I was not sure I liked the idea myself . We'd all done a good deal of work on the outline by now . I ...
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