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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Page 87
... person standing in one of their shoes might think ? Or does the judge just take the words for their plain meaning ? The pattern of each class all week was more or less the same . First Perini would call on a student who would state the ...
... person standing in one of their shoes might think ? Or does the judge just take the words for their plain meaning ? The pattern of each class all week was more or less the same . First Perini would call on a student who would state the ...
Page 114
... person , a topic which has mushroomed in complexity as we've gone along . Historically , courts could only assert their power over persons found inside the state where the court sat . These days a precarious weighing of subtle factors ...
... person , a topic which has mushroomed in complexity as we've gone along . Historically , courts could only assert their power over persons found inside the state where the court sat . These days a precarious weighing of subtle factors ...
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... person had spoken- but much of that ability might have been a function of Nicky's ease in the classroom , hard for ... persons apart from the mob . • The other point I felt in favor of the smaller classes was that in subtle ways the ...
... person had spoken- but much of that ability might have been a function of Nicky's ease in the classroom , hard for ... persons apart from the mob . • The other point I felt in favor of the smaller classes was that in subtle ways the ...
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