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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... lawyer's work . Among other things , Henley said we would be involved with a client interview , the filing of suit ... lawyers carry their objec- tions to some point of law ruled on by a trial judge . Because they deal with closely ...
... lawyer's work . Among other things , Henley said we would be involved with a client interview , the filing of suit ... lawyers carry their objec- tions to some point of law ruled on by a trial judge . Because they deal with closely ...
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... lawyers . Law school enrollments have grown rapidly , and in 1974 there were nearly 30,000 young lawyers graduated , three times more than were graduated ten years earlier and far too many for the legal job market to absorb . The ...
... lawyers . Law school enrollments have grown rapidly , and in 1974 there were nearly 30,000 young lawyers graduated , three times more than were graduated ten years earlier and far too many for the legal job market to absorb . The ...
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... lawyers do in court , apparently , is to try to convince judges that the present situation is more like one precedent than another . 66 This system of judges making law case by case is called the ' common law . " I am a little ...
... lawyers do in court , apparently , is to try to convince judges that the present situation is more like one precedent than another . 66 This system of judges making law case by case is called the ' common law . " I am a little ...
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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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