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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... never made a positive statement , never gave anything which resembled an answer , not even a hint . He just stood up there in his black suit with an expres- sion of muted concern and kept asking questions ; and as confusion grew , so ...
... never made a positive statement , never gave anything which resembled an answer , not even a hint . He just stood up there in his black suit with an expres- sion of muted concern and kept asking questions ; and as confusion grew , so ...
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... never would be . I sat still for a second . Then I repeated what I'd just thought to myself : There were no answers . That was the point , the one Zechman - and some of the other professors , less tirelessly - had been trying to make ...
... never would be . I sat still for a second . Then I repeated what I'd just thought to myself : There were no answers . That was the point , the one Zechman - and some of the other professors , less tirelessly - had been trying to make ...
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... never gotten those goddamn grades . " By that Monday , Stephen had hit upon a more tangible expression of his concern . It had been quite a weekend in the dormitories . Members of Section 2 who had no access to outlines and study groups ...
... never gotten those goddamn grades . " By that Monday , Stephen had hit upon a more tangible expression of his concern . It had been quite a weekend in the dormitories . Members of Section 2 who had no access to outlines and study groups ...
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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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