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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... tion . In the first few weeks many of the students who were uncomfortable or unhappy had assumed that it was their fault , that they were somehow incompetent . Now they seemed to stop blaming themselves and were pointing the finger at ...
... tion . In the first few weeks many of the students who were uncomfortable or unhappy had assumed that it was their fault , that they were somehow incompetent . Now they seemed to stop blaming themselves and were pointing the finger at ...
Page 139
... tion , and recognizing that bothered me a great deal . I thought I'd grown beyond emotions of that kind . Now I learned that my childishness had disappeared only because there'd been a period when I had not been treated like a child ...
... tion , and recognizing that bothered me a great deal . I thought I'd grown beyond emotions of that kind . Now I learned that my childishness had disappeared only because there'd been a period when I had not been treated like a child ...
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... tion , would try to respond . In general , Perini had far the better of it , even when the class began to come to Sandy's aid . One day he called an answer of Sandy's " predictably con- fused . " After he'd been hissed , Perini remarked ...
... tion , would try to respond . In general , Perini had far the better of it , even when the class began to come to Sandy's aid . One day he called an answer of Sandy's " predictably con- fused . " After he'd been hissed , Perini remarked ...
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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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